by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 22, 2022 | Preparing for Marriage
Do you feel safer in Christian spaces or non-Christian ones? That can be a hard one to answer because there are so many variables, but yesterday I set off a firestorm with my post that only 33.7% of married, evangelical men meet our four criteria for being sexually...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 15, 2022 | Preparing for Marriage
If we had had these Great Sex Guides before we got married, there would be no Great Sex Rescue. No To Love, Honor and Vacuum blog. No Bare Marriage podcast. Why? Because we wouldn’t have had years of pain that we had to untangle from, so I wouldn’t have...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 10, 2022 | Podcasts, Preparing for Marriage
We’ve got some uncomfortable truths about waiting until marriage for sex for you today! Yesterday on the blog I was talking about the increased rate of vaginismus among couples who wait for the wedding–and what we should do about that. That’s a large...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 27, 2021 | Preparing for Marriage
So many people on this blog have found love through Christian online dating sites! I’m always amazed when I ask on social media who met their spouses online. Hundreds respond! And ever since I wrote The Great Sex Rescue, and began talking about how much the...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 27, 2021 | Preparing for Marriage
Just because you’re not going to date doesn’t mean you don’t get your heart broken. My article yesterday on how Elisabeth Elliot’s courtship with Jim sounds quite toxic and unfair to Elisabeth blew up on Facebook and social media. Most were in...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 26, 2021 | Bare Marriage, Preparing for Marriage
Elisabeth Elliot’s book Passion and Purity is NOT a love story. These last few weeks I’ve been reading the big books marketed to young women in the evangelical world for research for our mother-daughter book, and one of those was Passion & Purity. I...