by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 31, 2020 | Resolving Conflict
When we give husbands veto power, do we end up damaging intimacy? Often the best conversations on this blog don’t happen in the posts themselves, but in the comments. And today I wanted to share a comment that came in on one of Keith’s earlier...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 24, 2020 | Resolving Conflict
What do you do when you don’t want to get pregnant, but your husband doesn’t want birth control? We’ve been tackling difficult sex questions all month, and here’s one I tackled a while ago, but I still get asked quite a bit. I thought it was...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 18, 2020 | Homemaking, Podcasts, Resolving Conflict
If we say that it’s okay to expect that men will want to be engaged at home, and will want to share the mental load, are we man-bashing? We’ve been talking all month about emotional labor and mental load–or just how overburdened many women feel when...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 15, 2020 | Homemaking, Resolving Conflict
What if the reason that many women “nag”, or at least men feel “nagged”, is that women are carrying too much of the mental load? If only women know what tasks need to be done, then it’s almost inevitable that they will have to issue...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 2, 2020 | Homemaking, Resolving Conflict
How does the Fair Play system help you divide up mental load in marriage? We’re just launching our June series about mental load, where we look at how to balance the mental work that goes into keeping the family together. Yesterday we looked at what mental load...
by Keith Gregoire | May 27, 2020 | Men's Corner, Resolving Conflict
Are we overblowing gender differences? Are men from Mars and women from Venus? It’s Keith on the blog today for our men’s corner! It seems you can’t go to a marriage conference, or read a book on marriage or even have a conversation about...
Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 25 years and happily married for 20! 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 8 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.
