Do I Have to Indulge My Husband’s Fantasies?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 15, 2019 | Spicing Things Up

If your husband wants you to do a striptease or send him sexy photos, doesn’t that mean he’s perverted? Do you have to indulge him? Every Monday I like to post a reader question and take a stab at answering it, and I found one from a few years ago...

Top 10 Turning Points in Your Marriage

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 2, 2019 | Emotional Connection

Our lives are really the sum total of small decisions, made on a daily basis. And that means that small decisions can be turning points in your marriage. In April, we’re going to look at practical, nitty gritty things we can do to help our marriages improve and...

Are You a Generous Lover? How Wives Can Be Giving in the Bedroom

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 20, 2019 | Sexual Intimacy

What does it mean to be a generous lover? A few years after we were married a read a magazine article by a woman who had vowed at their wedding day to never say no to her husband sexually. Whenever he wanted sex, she would give it. I was just coming out of a bad few...

10 Times You’re Allowed to Say No to Sex

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 12, 2019 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

You’re allowed to say no to sex. Unfortunately that can be a radical thing to say in some church circles, and I’ve been writing lately about God created sex to be a mutual experience, not just a one-sided experience. Women’s pleasure matters, too,...

Godly Sex is Mutual Sex: It’s Not Only About a Husband’s Needs

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 6, 2019 | Sexual Intimacy, Theology of Marriage and Sex

When I was first married, sex hurt. And I felt terribly guilty about that. Have you ever looked back on your younger self and thought, “what in the world was I thinking? Why did I do that?” I have. And there are parts of me, deep parts, that I am still...

Sex is the Gift of Being in the Moment. And that Is a Gift!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 6, 2019 | Sexual Intimacy

I don’t live in the moment well–and that can make sex more difficult. I’m a woman, and like most women, I have a million things going on in my head at any one time: What’s for dinner tomorrow night (and did I remember to take something out of...

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