by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 28, 2020 | Abuse, Theology of Marriage and Sex
One of the most damaging and unbiblical “Christian” books on marriage is Debi Pearl’s Created to Be His Helpmeet. Debi Pearl’s view of submission teaches women to allow themselves to be abused, rather than teaches women to seek God’s...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 24, 2017 | Abuse, Resolving Conflict
How do you know if you’re being abused? One of the hardest parts of blogging is reading so many heartbreaking emails and comments that come in from people in truly destructive marriages. I find myself wondering, why do people treat each other this way? And even...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 3, 2017 | Resolving Conflict
What do you do when your husband lies all the time and never keeps his promises? Every Monday I like to put up a reader question and take a stab at answering it, and here’s one from a woman in a very difficult marriage. She writes: I have been married a year and...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 19, 2016 | Abuse, Tough Marriage Situations
I hold both of these truths to be self-evident: sometimes women can be verbally and emotionally abused without other people understanding the extent of it, and need to get out of that marriage; and sometimes women claim that they are verbally and emotionally abused...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 5, 2016 | Abuse, Theology of Marriage and Sex
Are you married to a controlling husband? I wrote a big post recently about how too often our Christian culture promotes a version of church and marriage that makes women powerless–and that this inevitably leads to abuse. Not that EVERY woman will be...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 4, 2014 | Abuse, Marriage
What do you do if you fear your sister is being abused (or your friend is being abused)? That’s the question I want to tackle today. Every Monday I take a stab at answering a reader question, and this one is a really sad one. A reader writes: My family and I are...
Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 29 years and happily married for 24! She loves traveling around North America with her hubby in their RV, giving her signature "Girl Talk" about sex and marriage. And she's written 7 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.
