Finding the Root Cause of Marriage Problems Using the 5 Whys

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 5, 2019 | Resolving Conflict

Why are you feeling distant in your marriage? What if asking “why” five times in a row, based on the answers you were given, could reveal the root problem? Lately I’ve been critiquing the way that some churches do marriage counseling. I want to get...

10 Things to Consider if Your Husband Wants to Use Marijuana

by Joanna Sawatsky | May 28, 2019 | Resolving Conflict

What do you do if your husband wants to smoke pot? That may feel out of left field, but increasingly I’m having readers write in with that question. Marijuana is legal in many jurisdictions now–Europe; Canada; many individual states. So I thought it was...

MENDED: How to Repair Your Marriage Before it Breaks

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 3, 2019 | Resolving Conflict

The secret to a great marriage is to fix problems before they start. It’s just being intentional–and it’s making those small choices that we talked about yesterday that can become turning points in our marriages. We decide to move towards each...

What to Do When Mr. Clean Marries Mrs. Messy

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 1, 2019 | Resolving Conflict

What do you do when you have different standards for housework? It’s Monday, the day that I usually try to tackle a reader question, and today I want to talk about what to do when you’re a little messy and he’s a neat freak. But before I get to that,...

Can an Emotionally Abusive Marriage Heal?

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...

Your Stories of Women and Marriages Damaged from Love and Respect

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 18, 2019 | Book Reviews, Resolving Conflict, Theology of Marriage and Sex

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...

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