Boundaries Archives - To Love, Honor and Vacuum

On Elisabeth Elliot’s Terrible Courtship–and Dating Men “Sold Out for Jesus”

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 26, 2021 | Preparing for Marriage

Elisabeth Elliot’s book Passion and Purity is NOT a love story. These last few weeks I’ve been reading the big books marketed to young women in the evangelical world for research for our mother-daughter book, and one of those was Passion & Purity. I...

Did You Set Boundaries for Yourself as a Teenager?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 23, 2021 | Parenting Teenagers

Healthy teenagers learn how to set boundaries. Well, healthy PEOPLE learn how to set boundaries! And it’s good to learn while we’re still young. Rebecca and I are deep in the throes of writing our mother-daughter book combatting harmful teachings for girls...

Compassion for Anna Duggar–And How We Judge Success in Marriage

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 30, 2021 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

Josh Duggar has been arrested by the feds, and I’m so sad for Anna Duggar. I wasn’t going to write about this today, but it actually intersects with a number of things I’ve been thinking about this week, and I thought I could put them all in one...

PODCAST: Are You a Community Giver or Taker?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 12, 2020 | Doing Life Together

Real community goes both ways! In March we’re dedicating the month to talking about community, and this week we talked about 10 ways to break into a new church. One of the things we wanted to emphasize, though, is that community is not just about what you can...

When to Walk Away Review: How to Deal with Toxic People–and Toxic Marriages

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 29, 2020 | Abuse, Theology of Marriage and Sex

When it comes to toxic people–and toxic marriages–do we have the courage to walk away? Alice had endured being married to Alex for over 20 years. She had kept trying to make the marriage better–being nice to him; keeping a nice house; studying all...

Iron Sharpens Iron: How to Speak Up when Something’s Bugging You in Marriage

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 20, 2020 | Resolving Conflict

How do you ACTUALLY confront your spouse when something’s bugging you? We’re in the middle of our iron sharpening iron series on the blog this month, where I’m talking about how marriage is supposed to make us better people. We’re supposed to...