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EMOTIONAL MATURITY SERIES: What To Do When Your Spouse is Stonewalling

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 9, 2020 | Resolving Conflict

Have you ever experienced stonewalling in your marriage? If you’ve ever said something like, “He refuses to talk about it,” “every time I bring it up he shuts me down,” “She walks out of the room if I mention it.” “He...

Is Having the Husband Make the Final Decision a Harmful Shortcut in Your Marriage?

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...

My Husband Doesn’t Want to Use Birth Control

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...

PODCAST EXTRAS: Is It Man-Bashing to Assume Men Can Take on Emotional Labor?

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...

THE EMOTIONAL LABOR SERIES: How to Eliminate Nagging for Good

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...

EMOTIONAL LABOR: How the Fair Play System Helps Share Mental Load

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...

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About Sheila

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.