Can an Emotionally Abusive Marriage Heal?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 21, 2019 | Resolving Conflict

Can a marriage emerge from emotional abuse to be healed–to feel whole and intimate? Last week was a depressing week on the blog. It really was a hard slog. I took an in-depth look at the book Love & Respect, and talked about how the Love & Respect...

Your Stories of Women and Marriages Damaged from Love and Respect

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 18, 2019 | Book Reviews, Resolving Conflict, Theology of Marriage and Sex

This has been a wild week on the blog as we have looked at Love & Respect by Emerson Eggerichs, one of the best selling Christian marriage books. I intended originally to write only a post about how the book approached sex, but the outcry was so immense that I...

And…This is Why Abuse Flourishes. Can We Provoke Someone to Abuse?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 2, 2018 | Abuse, Resolving Conflict

When there’s abuse in marriage, are both parties to blame? Or is just the abuser to blame?I honestly wish I didn’t have to ask that question, but last week a commenter left this comment on my post about emotionally destructive marriages: I believe almost...

Readers’ Stories of Spiritual Abuse at Teen Missions International

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 10, 2018 | Abuse, Parenting Teenagers

Last week I was talking about the dangers of legalism, and I launched that series by telling a personal story of a missions trip I took with Teen Missions International back in 1986.I talked about how the emphasis was skewed, how the head leaders showed little grace,...

Reader Question: How Do I Admit to Myself that I’m Being Abused?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 30, 2017 | Abuse, Marriage, Resolving Conflict

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to admit to ourselves when we’re in an abusive marriage. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and before the month was over I wanted to share a letter that I recently received from a reader. Harvey Weinstein and...

On Harvey Weinstein and Owning Someone Else’s Shame

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 13, 2017 | Abuse, Resolving Conflict

I spent the summer when I was 18 as a camp counsellor. I had a group of four of us–two guys, and two girls–who hung out in the evenings when the kids were in bed (others were supervising!) and who did a lot of the games and music together. We were good...

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