Resolving Conflict Archives - To Love, Honor and Vacuum

When Are Wet Towels on the Bed More than Just Wet Towels on the Bed?

by Rebecca Lindenbach | Jul 25, 2022 | Homemaking, Resolving Conflict

Did you know that 45,000 receive an email from me every Friday with a round-up of things from the blog and social media that week? To make sure you don’t miss anything? And that email is usually written by Rebecca, with an extra insight or thought into where the...

11 Dumb Things People Believe about Marriage

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 6, 2022 | Preparing for Marriage, Resolving Conflict

Lots of people believe a lot of dumb things about marriage! I’m in the middle of moving our site to our new Bare Marriage domain (we should be up and running by the end of the month!), and we’re only taking posts from 2018 and forward with us, leaving over...

5 Ways Hierarchy in Marriage Hurts Men, Too

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 1, 2022 | Resolving Conflict, Theology of Marriage and Sex

What if setting up marriage as a hierarchy, where men make the decisions, isn’t good for men either? We know that it can lead to problems for women (as we talked about yesterday), but what if it can hurt men too? On Tuesdays I don’t do huge posts, but...

7 Questions to Ask to Vet Your Counselor

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 10, 2021 | Resolving Conflict

How do you find a good counselor when you need to seek help for marriage issues? Sheila here! I found Sarah Allman on Instagram, where we interacted about the vital importance of vetting counselors before you go to see one. This is something I’d been...

MARRIAGE ON HARD MODE: How Gender Role Ideas Can Backfire

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 20, 2021 | Resolving Conflict, Theology of Marriage and Sex

What if our underlying understanding of gender roles makes marriage harder than it needs to be? We’re talking about doing marriage on hard mode in the month of September–how so often we can make our lives harder, and thus make marriage harder, than it...

A Trick to Identifying the Issue That’s Causing your Marriage Problems

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 8, 2021 | Resolving Conflict

Sometimes, when life gets stressful, we feel like everything is going wrong. Everyone is picking at everyone else. You’re late for everything. Your relationship with your mom is messed up. You and your husband never have time alone and your mad at each other...

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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.