Homemaking Archives - To Love, Honor and Vacuum

How One Couple in the Arctic Got Over Nagging

by Joanna Sawatsky | Aug 18, 2021 | Homemaking

Sheila here! Today I’m turning the blog over to Joanna, my awesome co-author with The Great Sex Rescue, and our resident statistician and super smart person. She’s responsible for all the data that we derive from our surveys, and for running all of the...

The DIRECT COMMUNICATION Series: What if Nagging Isn’t the Problem (or the Solution)?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 17, 2021 | Homemaking

We often hear that nagging is one of the worst things a woman can do in a marriage. It makes her husband feel infantilized, undermined, talked down to. But what if nagging is not the real issue? What if we’re making too big a deal out of nagging, and not enough...

A Shout Out to the Great Guys Who Share Emotional Labor & Mental Load

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 30, 2020 | Homemaking

It’s the last day of our emotional labor and mental load series! We wrapped up the big teaching points yesterday talking about how important it is that both spouses get down time. And we’ve tackled a ton of things this month, including what mental load...

EMOTIONAL LABOR SERIES: Why We All Need Downtime

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 29, 2020 | Homemaking

You can’t be emotionally healthy if you don’t have downtime–time when you can relax, pursue passions, or care for yourself. We’re finally here–at the conclusion of our mental load/emotional labor series for the month of June! We’ve...

5 Ways COVID 19 Increases Mental Load

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 26, 2020 | Homemaking

We’re finishing up our mental load series at To Love, Honor and Vacuum! I’ve got one more important thing to cover on Monday–why we all need time to ourselves–but we’ve covered a lot of ground this month. And I’ve had so many people...

Why I Kissed “Give Me a List” Goodbye

by Keith Gregoire | Jun 24, 2020 | Homemaking, Men's Corner

Is it fair for husbands to just say, “Give me a list of what you want done and I’ll do it?” It’s Keith here today; welcome back to Men’s Corner! It has been interesting to watch people wrestle with the concept of mental load over the...

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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.