by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 7, 2018 | Spending Time Together
“If you were to invest now in your future best self, where would you put your time and your energy?” That’s the question Robert Wadlinger asks in this awesome TED Talk about happiness. In my quest to THINK more and VEG less, I’ve been trying to...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 15, 2015 | Emotional Connection, Family
It’s Wednesday, the day when we always talk marriage! And today, while I’m touring Arizona with my Girl Talk, speaking to several MOPS groups and in several churches, I thought I’d run this awesome post by Elizabeth Laing Thompson about what her...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 18, 2015 | Emotional Connection, Family, Parenting Small Children, Spending Time Together
Today, welcome guest author Kate from Making Space, a mom, wife and reader from the UK, who like many of us asks an important question, what comes first, children or marriage? Here’s what she says about putting your husband first. This is what a normal day in...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 29, 2014 | Emotional Connection, Marriage, Spending Time Together
Everyone has what I call “seasons of distance” in their marriages where drifting apart seems imminent. They’re inevitable, and they’re usually no one’s fault. My husband and I are just emerging from a “season of distance” when...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 22, 2014 | Sex, Sexual Intimacy
What does “the two become one flesh” actually mean? “…A man leaves his father and mother, and cleaves to his wife, and the two become one flesh.” (Genesis 2:24) That verse is read at weddings, and we hear it often: “the two shall...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 15, 2014 | Marriage
We get married because we want to believe that we are “made for each other”. Yet you and your husband are two very different people. You have gender differences. You have personality differences. You have background differences. The problem with...