by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 21, 2019 | resolving conflict
Can a marriage emerge from emotional abuse to be healed–to feel whole and intimate? Last week was a depressing week on the blog. It really was a hard slog. I took an in-depth look at the book Love & Respect, and talked about how the Love & Respect...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 18, 2019 | book review, resolving conflict
This has been a wild week on the blog as we have looked at Love & Respect by Emerson Eggerichs, one of the best selling Christian marriage books. I intended originally to write only a post about how the book approached sex, but the outcry was so immense that I...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 16, 2019 | resolving conflict
This week we’ve been talking about how books like Love & Respect go so far off base. I started with showing how the view of sex in Love & Respect is very wrong. And then yesterday I showed how the concept of a wife giving a husband unconditional respect...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 15, 2019 | book review, resolving conflict
Should you have unconditional respect for your husband, as Emerson Eggerichs claims in the book Love & Respect? I was overwhelmed by the response to my review of Love & Respect’s sex chapter yesterday. Many of you asked for my take on the whole book, and...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 6, 2018 | divorce, resolving conflict
What do you do if you discover your best friend is having an affair? We’re talking about boundaries this month, and how to figure out when to make something your problem, and when it just can’t be your problem. A while ago I answered this question about...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 3, 2018 | abuse, resolving conflict
What do you do if you have a friend who is just plain mean to her husband? On Mondays I like to take a reader question and take a stab at answering it–sometimes in a blog post and sometimes in a video. This was a great question that fits perfectly in our month...