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PODCAST: Recovering Your Sex Life After a Baby

by Rebecca Lindenbach | Feb 20, 2020 | Making Sex Feel Good, Parenting Small Children, Podcasts

It’s time for a new episode of the To Love, Honor and Vacuum podcast! I hope you all will listen, but if you don’t have time, I’ll have some links and rabbit trails below so you can read all you want as well! And consider this podcast...

Ask Sheila: Help! My Wife Sleeps with Our Kids!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 4, 2019 | Emotional Connection, Parenting Small Children, Videos

What do you do if your wife sleeps with the kids instead of with you? That’s a question I recently had from a frustrated husband–but it’s not the ONLY time a husband has written in like this. On the contrary, we get quite a few, and I’ve...

Wifey Wednesday: Parents, It’s Okay to Need Some Sleep!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 30, 2016 | Parenting Small Children

For those of you blessed with children, it’s often easy to forget that you were a wife before you were a mother. And I think the wife role is actually the more important one, because once you’re a mom, other people are now depending on you! It’s...

Reader question: My Wife Sleeps with the Toddler!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 2, 2016 | Parenting Small Children

Is cosleeping with the toddler okay? Even if your husband isn’t happy? Today’s reader question comes from a rather unhappy husband who would like his wife back in his bed. Reader Question I have nowhere to turn to in regards to my wife cosleeping with our...

Sex After Kids: 17 Ways to Make It Happen

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 14, 2012 | Family, Parenting Small Children, Sex

Sex after kids come. What a lot of work!Sex obviously leads to parenthood, but for many couples, it then becomes rather rare. How can you keep your sex life fresh when kids are hanging off of you, you’re exhausted, and you need some time to yourself?For the last...

Your Husband Trumps Your Children

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 24, 2011 | Family, Marriage

Your husband comes first Last week I guest posted on “A Martha Heart”, writing about how to keep your bedroom a sacred place for you and your husband. The first commenter really took me to task for one of my points. I had said that...