
Sheila Wray Gregoire
Host at Bare Marriage
Healthy, evidence-based, biblical commentary on sex & marriage. Host of the Bare Marriage podcast. Author of The Great Sex Rescue & She Deserves Better.
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3 weeks ago |
bethallisonbarr.substack.com | Beth Allison Barr |Katelyn Beaty |Skye Jethani |Sheila Wray Gregoire
I’m still in shock that Becoming the Pastor’s Wife hit the New York Times’ Bestseller list the first week it was out! I had planned this behind-the-scenes post before it became a bestseller as I wanted people to meet the graduate students who worked on the project. Katie worked with me the first year of the project when I was mostly researching and Brooke worked with me during the second year while I was actively writing.
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Mar 6, 2024 |
baremarriage.com | Sheila Wray Gregoire
Then we wondered: Did Dobson base this on anything scientific? Here’s how we explained it in The Great Sex Rescue: We scoured medical and scientific journals but couldn’t find anything that proved men got sexually frustrated at hour seventy-three.
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Feb 28, 2024 |
baremarriage.com | Sheila Wray Gregoire
A lot has surprised us in the three years since Great Sex Rescue was published!Today on the Bare Marriage podcast the three authors–Joanna Sawatsky, Rebecca Lindenbach, and me–all discuss what has surprised us and what we’ve seen since The Great Sex Rescue was published–and where we think things are going.
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Feb 22, 2024 |
baremarriage.com | Sheila Wray Gregoire
What if…the people we listen to for advice are more likely to be being abused? And what if the couples held up as ones to emulate by organizations like Focus on the Family are actually in really destructive relationships? This was a sad one for me to record, because I felt really heavy as I was filming it, especially the first part. I had been sent an email by Focus on the Family, promoting an article, and I clicked on the link. And as I read it, it just sounded off to me.
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Feb 20, 2024 |
baremarriage.com | Sheila Wray Gregoire
Not everyone who ends up dominating their wife is actually an abuser at heart. What they are doing may be abusive; the same dynamics may be at play, and the same harm may be being done. But it doesn’t always come from the same place. Over and over again since we have started doing this work, we have heard from couples who ended up acting out male hierarchy and female submission because they thought they were supposed to–and it turned out horribly. But the guy was not initially abusive.
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