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Reader Question: Do I Have to Endure Terrible Gifts from My Husband This Christmas?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 14, 2020 | Emotional Connection

What do you do if your husband is absolutely terrible at buying Christmas presents? Last year, a reader wrote in with this question about her husband who buys terrible gifts: Do I keep enduring terrible Christmas/birthday/Valentine’s Day gifts for the...

Aragorn, Cinema Therapy, and Authentic Masculinity

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 9, 2020 | Emotional Connection

As we’re trying to understand emotional maturity, can we get a better picture of what authentic masculinity is? We talk a lot about toxic masculinity, and I don’t think that’s necessarily a healthy term. Many people fear that we’re labelling...

How to Stop Being a Doormat in Your Marriage

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 2, 2020 | Emotional Connection, Tough Marriage Situations

Do you ever feel like a doormat in your marriage? You want so badly to connect with your spouse, but whatever you do, your spouse just doesn’t connect back with you. Yesterday I shared an email from a woman who felt like she never talked with her husband and...

How to Get to Deeper Levels of Communication in Marriage: Understanding the 5 Levels of Communication

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 1, 2020 | Emotional Connection

Growing in emotional maturity is largely about being able to comfortably go to deeper levels of communication. So many readers write to me saying that they find it so hard to connect with their spouse. One reader recently, for instance, said this: We have been married...

EMOTIONAL MATURITY SERIES: What if Emotional Maturity Is a Skill that We Can Learn?

by Keith Gregoire | Nov 30, 2020 | Emotional Connection, Men's Corner

Men are emotional beings–whether we think that or not. Keith here with this month’s installment of Men’s Corner. This month’s theme is “Emotional Maturity”. Can I start out by being really blunt? I think many people of...

EMOTIONAL MATURITY SERIES: Do Christian Resources Promote Emotional Immaturity (especially in men)?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 23, 2020 | Emotional Connection

Christian books ask far more of women than they do of men. We learned that pretty quickly when we read the top 15 bestselling Christian sex & marriage books for our upcoming book The Great Sex Rescue. But what they’re really doing is assuming that men can...

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About Sheila

Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 29 years and happily married for 24! She loves traveling around North America with her hubby in their RV, giving her signature "Girl Talk" about sex and marriage. And she's written 7 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.