maturity Archives - To Love, Honor and Vacuum

How Do You Live with an Emotionally Immature Spouse?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 18, 2020 | Emotional Connection

How do you draw boundaries with an emotionally immature/passive aggressive spouse? I thought I was finished with my emotional maturity series, but a wonderful question came in to the blog this week that I thought it was worth running! I was wondering if you...

PODCAST: What Does Emotional Maturity Look Like?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 19, 2020 | Emotional Connection, Podcasts

Is emotional maturity a female thing? (Hint: Nope!) And what does emotional maturity look like? In today’s podcast I’m actually having a guest–Marc Alan Schelske, the author of The Wisdom of Your Heart. And then Keith and I are talking about...

A Book List to Help You with Emotional Maturity

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 17, 2020 | Emotional Connection

It’s time for a resource list of books to help you grow more emotionally mature! We’re in the middle of our emotional maturity series, and yesterday I was talking about 6 ways to help you grow more emotionally mature and more responsible. I promised that...

The EMOTIONAL MATURITY SERIES: 6 Ways to Grow in Emotional Maturity

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 16, 2020 | Emotional Connection

How do you become more emotionally mature? We’re in the middle of our series on emotional maturity. We’ve looked at what emotional maturity is, and how sometimes people use “God language” to avoid emotional maturity. We’ve looked at what...

How to Handle Your Children’s Disappointments

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 11, 2020 | Parenting Small Children, Parenting Teenagers

My girls were both far more emotionally mature on their wedding day than I was on mine. And their husbands were both more emotionally mature than Keith was, too! Keith and I were just so young, in so many ways (though my daughters were both technically younger than I...

Are Expectations in Marriage Wrong? 3 Things You Should Expect from Your Spouse

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...