by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 10, 2020 | Emotional Connection
Is it wrong to have expectations in marriage? We’ve been talking about emotional maturity this month, and yesterday, as I was writing about how to have a conversation when a spouse is stonewalling, it reminded me of a post I wrote a while back about how...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 30, 2019 | Family
Lots of parents say “I wish I never had kids!” or “If I could do my life over again, I’d never have children.” I think that’s so destructive. This month, in our Wednesday series, we’re looking at the habits we have that can...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
By 4 a.m. on Christmas morning, my brother-in-law’s house is bustling. Wrapping paper is flying, Christmas music is playing, and laughter is bubbling. But it’s not the kids who wake everyone up at 4. It’s my brother-in-law. He does Christmas BIG. My...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 19, 2018 | Emotional Connection, Resolving Conflict
If I were to ask you what it means to submit to your husband, what would you say? When I’ve asked that question at marriage groups, people hem and haw and then eventually come up with something like this: When we’re disagreeing about something, the husband...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 12, 2018 | Marriage, Theology of Marriage and Sex
One of the interesting phenomena I’ve encountered when blogging is that the angry men who leave “drive-by” comments quoting Bible verses about how women must obey and remain silent so rarely talk about Jesus. They take verses out of context from New...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 4, 2018 | Resolving Conflict
Is it wrong to have expectations in marriage? I’m going to climb up on my soapbox for this post and just give a little bit of a rant. I hope you’ll excuse me. But I see a problem with the way that a lot of Christian teaching addresses emotional needs in...