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How Do You Live with an Emotionally Immature Spouse?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 18, 2020 | Emotional Connection

How do you draw boundaries with an emotionally immature/passive aggressive spouse? I thought I was finished with my emotional maturity series, but a wonderful question came in to the blog this week that I thought it was worth running! I was wondering if you...

Creating Christmas Traditions When You Don’t Have Kids

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 15, 2020 | Emotional Connection

Can you create Christmas traditions as a couple BEFORE you have kids? Absolutely! Or what about if you aren’t planning on having kids, or can’t have kids–or if your kids are with your ex-spouses for the holidays. Does that mean that Christmas...

10 Christmas Gift Ideas for the Man Who is Impossible to Buy For

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 15, 2020 | Emotional Connection

Are you stuck on Christmas gift ideas for your husband? For a woman, you can always just buy something pretty. But what does a guy want? One of my most popular posts ever was my Christmas stocking stuffers for your husband–and in that post I give some really...

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...

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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.