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Send us a textUnconditional respect isn’t a thing.And yet we’re often told that men need unconditional respect, just like women need unconditional love.Links to things mentioned: Follow Sheila on Instagram: @sheilagregoire Dr. Cynthia Long WestfallPaul and Gender: Reclaiming the Apostle's Vision for Men and Women in ChristThe Great Sex RescuePsychology Today article To Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

Topics discussed include enhancing women's libido in marriages, communication and sexual satisfaction, vaginismus, effects of negative sex messaging, navigating purity culture as an autistic person, men's porn addiction impact on relationships, and addressing toxicity and libido issues in relationships.

Send us a textRecently John Piper had a podcast telling a woman how to deal with a “harsh” husband.It was atrocious advice–especially since women in emotionally abusive relationships would listen to this advice and think that it pertained to them (since most women in abusive relationships would describe their husbands as harsh).Links to things mentioned:John Piper article on harsh husbandsOur original Facebook Live (expanded content from this podcast, extra 13 minutes on end)Our article talking about John Piper and harsh husbandsDr. Alison Cook on Turning the Other CheekSign up for our emails!Our Merch!Gretchen Baskerville on the effect of divorce on kids if husbands are abusiveTo Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

Send us a textLet’s face the fact that fundamentalist Christianity in North America is basically a sex cult.That’s Alyssa Wakefield’s conclusion in Part 2 of her story on the Bare Marriage podcast!Links to things mentioned:Part 1 of Alyssa's storyWendy Snyder's FREE Parenting Workshop RegistrationTraumaMAMAS appSarah McDugal:Instagram FacebookNatalie Hoffman's book Is It Me?To Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

Send us a textWhat if you grow up in what you now call a sex cult, and you marry because your dad told you to?Did you really consent to that marriage? And how does it even happen in North America today that girls are being pushed into arranged marriages?Today's podcast sounds more like one of those True Crime documentaries.Links to things mentioned:Our podcast on the Gothard movement with Emily Elizabeth AndersonOur podcast on positive parenting with Wendy SnyderRegister for our free webinar with Wendy!To Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

Send us a textHave we made sex–and marriage–into a “Yes Space” for men?And if so, how does this affect libido?Links to things mentioned:The Orgasm CoursePodcast where we talked about postpartum sexReview of Married SexMental Load PodcastTo Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

Send us a textCan we have a nuanced discussion about porn and the likelihood of recovery?One of our goals for what we do is to help people have “informed consent”–in other words, before they make a decision, they need to know all the facts. We can’t be afraid of data and evidence.Links to things mentioned:Find Sarah!Trauma Mamas AppSarah's full Noticing vs. Lusting videoKnix in the U.S.Knix in CanadaThe Great Sex RescueTo Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

Send us a textHow do our attachment styles–or love styles–affect our marriage?So often we think that our marriage problems are about communication, or habits, or normal conflicts. But what if they’re rooted in how we learned to connect with people?Links to things mentioned: Yerkovich's WebsiteHow We LoveThe Orgasm CourseOur Post on the 5 Love Styles Knix in the U.S.Knix in CanadaThe Great Sex RescueTo Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

Send us a textWhat if discipline and spanking aren’t synonyms? What if there was a much more effective way of disciplining your kids where you connect with their heart and it actually BUILDS your relationship?Links to things mentioned:Fresh Start Family Podcast Episode 122 Episode 123Wendy's siteDiscipline ClassStrong Willed Kids helpLogical Discipline Planning GuideJesus the Gentle Parent Heartfelt Discipline The Mask You Live in DocumentaryThe Whole Story Puberty and Sex CourseAngry Me by Sandra FederKnix in the U.S.Knix in CanadaThe Great Sex RescueTo Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

Send us a textIn the last of our three podcasts with Joanna where we talk stats, we tackle a few more ways that research is often handled poorly, using the research around spanking as one example.And then we bring on Wendy Snyder from Fresh Start Families to talk about how to use discipline that connects with your child!Links to things mentioned:Find Wendy!Our articles on Spanking Babies and the research on spankingThe Gershoff Meta-Analyses of SpankingThe problems with the book Love & RespectThe problems with how Focus on the Family talks about divorce and kidsKnix in the U.S.Knix in CanadaThe Great Sex RescueTo Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.