Christmas Archives - To Love, Honor and Vacuum

Manger Theology: What Pregnancy and Birth Can Tell Us about Jesus

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 20, 2021 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

Hi, everybody! This month we’ve been talking about embodiment and mindfulness–how to understand the mind/body connection. I thought that theme fit in well with Christmas, because in Christmas our God actually took on bodily form. The incarnation shows us...

3 Stories Podcast: A Vaginismus Story; A Christmas Story; and My Story

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 16, 2021 | Bare Marriage, Healthy Living, Making Sex Feel Good, Podcasts

It’s the last Bare Marriage podcast of 2021! And thank you for joining us this year! Today on the podcast we hear Rachel Perry’s story of vaginismus, and then I get cozy in my yellow chair where I work and just tell you how I see the Christmas story...

The One Thing I Can’t Remember About Christmas

by Rebecca Lindenbach | Dec 21, 2020 | Doing Life Together

When you think back to your Christmases as a child, what do you remember? Realizing what you remember–and what you don’t–can help you figure out what’s good to emphasize for your own kids! Today’s my 29th anniversary, and so I’ve...

Creating Christmas Traditions When You Don’t Have Kids

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 15, 2020 | Emotional Connection

Can you create Christmas traditions as a couple BEFORE you have kids? Absolutely! Or what about if you aren’t planning on having kids, or can’t have kids–or if your kids are with your ex-spouses for the holidays. Does that mean that Christmas...

10 Christmas Gift Ideas for the Man Who is Impossible to Buy For

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 15, 2020 | Emotional Connection

Are you stuck on Christmas gift ideas for your husband? For a woman, you can always just buy something pretty. But what does a guy want? One of my most popular posts ever was my Christmas stocking stuffers for your husband–and in that post I give some really...

Reader Question: Do I Have to Endure Terrible Gifts from My Husband This Christmas?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 14, 2020 | Emotional Connection

What do you do if your husband is absolutely terrible at buying Christmas presents? Last year, a reader wrote in with this question about her husband who buys terrible gifts: Do I keep enduring terrible Christmas/birthday/Valentine’s Day gifts for the rest of my...