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You Matter: Is the Pendulum Swinging Too Hard Towards Women?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 29, 2021 | Bare Marriage, Sexual Intimacy

As we’re wrapping up the sexual confidence series today, I’ve been thinking about what the main message is that I want people to take away. For the last two months we’ve been talking about sexual confidence–what it is; what it’s not; how...

Sexual Confidence Doesn’t Mean You’re Willing to Try Anything in Bed

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 8, 2021 | Sexual Intimacy, Spicing Things Up

There’s a myth that sexual confidence and being adventurous in bed are synonyms. I think they’re related, but only tangentially, and I think the fact that we equate them is part of the problem. In October and November we’re talking about sexual...

SEXUAL CONFIDENCE: 4 Tips for Building Sexual Confidence as the Higher Drive Wife

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 1, 2021 | Libido

I’ve often said that the higher drive wife carries a lot of burdens that other permutations of libido do not. It can be very difficult to be a husband married to a woman who doesn’t want sex, but at least that’s culturally expected. As a woman, we...

4 Characteristics of a Sexually Confident Man

by Keith Gregoire | Oct 25, 2021 | Men's Corner, Sexual Intimacy

What does a sexually confident man look like? Sheila here! We’re in the middle of our sexual confidence series. We began that series looking at the 3 characteristics of a sexually confident woman. Today on the blog I’ve asked my husband Keith to chime in...

SEXUAL CONFIDENCE: How Can We Get Over Embarrassment About Being Female?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 20, 2021 | Parenting Teenagers

How can we feel sexually confident if we believe that our bodies are gross, objects of embarrassment, or something that makes us “less than”? For a woman to feel sexually confident, she has to feel that being a woman is a good thing, not a source of shame....

SEXUAL CONFIDENCE: Knowing that Sex is For You, Too

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 12, 2021 | Sexual Intimacy

One of the reasons women often struggle with sexual confidence is that we think that sex is something that we give to men. We think that sex is primarily a male need (after all, in Love & Respect, Emerson Eggerichs said, “If your husband is typical, he has a...