When Your Husband Doesn’t Protect You from Your Mother-in-Law (or other toxic relatives)

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 16, 2019 | Tough Marriage Situations

When you have difficult relationships with your in-laws, it’s not up to you to sort it out. In general, it’s better if the blood relative intervenes on your behalf. But what do you do if your husband won’t stand up to his mom (or dad)? Or what...

10 Reasons Why Rushing Forgiveness Ruins Intimacy

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 6, 2019 | Theology of Marriage and Sex, Tough Marriage Situations

When you discover that your husband is cheating on you, or using pornography, should you forgive right away and work on rebuilding the marriage? Or if you discover that your wife is cheating on you, should you put that aside for the sake of the marriage and work on...

Are You to Blame if Your Spouse Cheats on You?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 26, 2019 | Tough Marriage Situations

If your husband has an affair, are you partially to blame? That’s been something I’ve been debating heatedly on Facebook and Twitter this week, because I saw this Facebook status by Focus on the Family: I found this rather disturbing, and posted it both on...

10 Ways to Help a Stressed-Out Spouse

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 16, 2019 | Emotional Connection, Tough Marriage Situations

Ever feel like your spouse is stressed all the time–and because of that they’re always short with you? On Mondays I like to post a reader question and then take a stab at answering it, and today I’ve got one from a woman who says that when they go on...

The Gross Stuff I Deal with as a Female Marriage and Sex Blogger

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 21, 2019 | Abuse, Tough Marriage Situations

All marriage speakers and bloggers get push back for what they say. But I’m not sure everyone realizes what women go through. Today I’d like to share some of the comments and words that are hurled at me, female bloggers like me, and my daughters when we...

The Top 10 Searches that Land People Here: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 14, 2019 | Tough Marriage Situations

People land on To Love, Honor and Vacuum in all kinds of ways! It may be links they saw on Twitter or Facebook. It may be posts that people emailed to them. But the two most common ways are Pinterest and Google–with Google being the biggest one. And because so...

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