Send us a text So much of the teachings out there for young women is that when they are dating, they must be the gatekeeper and stop physical interactions from reaching their boyfriend's 'point of no return.' Let's talk about how this mentality often ends up holding women back from enjoying sex once they are married. Honeymoon Course Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Gu...
May 14, 2020•18 min•Season 2Ep. 59
Send us a text Today we talk about about how to handle being cooped up in the house spending all day every day with your spouse. It's not just something to get through, but something you can even grow to love! Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better 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...
May 07, 2020•43 min•Season 2Ep. 58
Send us a text We have found the the message that "women NEED to have sex regularly or else their husbands will stray" Is very harmful to their enjoyment of sex. But we also found that they often don't get that message from their husbands. Their are a lot of great husbands out their whose wives are still struggling because they have heard this message at church or in books or from media .So let's talk about how you can replace that message with something better and help your wife find sex sexy a...
Apr 30, 2020•39 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Send us a text We need to talk about what actually constitutes rape and consent in marriage, and where obligation sex fits into the conversation Podcast Extras on the Blog Marital Rape 1 Corinthians 7:3-5: What do the verses really mean? Do Not Deprive: What if it’s actually women who are being deprived? Why We Need a New Definition of Sex Have we made sex into an entitlement? Why submission doesn’t mean letting yourself be hurt (a look at the book Created to be His Helpmeet ) Sexual trauma &...
Apr 23, 2020•51 min•Season 2Ep. 57
Send us a text Today, Rebecca and I review sheet music and talk about how a book that gives overly explicit sex advice can become just plain creepy. Honeymoon Course Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better 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 ...
Apr 16, 2020•39 min•Season 2Ep. 56
Send us a text I read out some quotes and anecdotes from Tim LaHaye's book, The Act of Marriage , to my Rebecca to get her reaction. Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better 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....
Apr 09, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 55
Send us a text COVID-19 is everywhere in the news right now, and people are scared. But while everyone is talking about the novel coronavirus and our response to it, I want to discuss the similartities between COVID-19 and porn use, particularly in terms of what we should do about it. Podcast Extras Why Every Man's Battle Fails Wives Are not to Blame Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Great Se...
Apr 02, 2020•44 min•Season 2Ep. 54
Send us a text It's time to rethink 'every man's battle' and talk about what lust really is, and how to really combat it. Podcast Extras The Church View of Lust Disrespects Women Are Men Visual? Masturbation in Marriage When She’s Always Left Hanging Women Deserve Orgasm, too Why Women’s Fireworks Matter Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she...
Mar 26, 2020•42 min•Season 2Ep. 53
Send us a text We live in a rapidly changing world where information is available at the touch of a button, yet the Sunday church service has stayed pretty consistent. Is it time to shake things up? Podcast Extras Being Lonely in a Group of People 10 Ways to Break Into A New Church and Find Friends What Happened at Willow Creek? 10 Signs You’re in a Legalistic Church When Women Start Saying No to Church Activities The Case Against Sermon-Centric Sundays Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marri...
Mar 19, 2020•44 min•Season 2Ep. 53
Send us a text Community is an important part of our life, but what do you do when you have trouble finding it? Or when you've found it, but can't join it? Or when you feel you have a little too much of it, and people are giving you unsolicited advice? All that and more on today's episode! Podcast Extras Making Community at Church Podcast: Getting Your Life Together Canadian Pediatric Society Screen Guidelines American Academy of Pediatrics Family Media Plan Support the show Join Sheila at Bare ...
Mar 12, 2020•44 min•Season 2Ep. 52
Send us a text My reader questions are coming in faster than I can write posts on them, so for today's podcast I am going to answer a bunch of my readers questions about marriage, sex, and everything else! Podcast Extras Can You Divorce for Abuse? Why I’m Anti-Divorce but Pro Remarriage Is the Husband the Tie-Breaker? Are Husbands Supposed to "Get Their Wives Ready for Jesus?" Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Go...
Mar 05, 2020•40 min•Season 2Ep. 51
Send us a text There are a lot of unhelpful or harmful teachings about sex out there, so let's talk about how to discern the good from the bad. Also on this episode, Rebecca and I will talk about how to navigate your wife's hormonal cycles when it comes to the bedroom! Spicy Dares Podcast Extras Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an O...
Feb 27, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Send us a text The idea of having sex after giving birth is daunting, especially after complications. And if we move too fast, we risk making recovery even harder. So let's talk about not just how to start having sex again, but how to get back to enjoying it! Podcast Extras Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better 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 Lib...
Feb 20, 2020•42 min•Season 2Ep. 50
Send us a text Valentine's Day is coming up, so let's talk about what it means to be a sexual being, how the world can sometimes take our sexuality away from us, and how we can reclaim it! Podcast Extras Sexy Dares Why I didn't Rebel Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better 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...
Feb 13, 2020•44 min•Season 2Ep. 49
Send us a text When I surveyed women for one of my books, I asked them to name three things about their body. Most of them really struggled to come up with one, but they had a whole of things they DIDN'T like. So let's talk about how to not just accept our bodies, but to LIKE them. Because after all, they're the ones God gave us! Podcast Extras Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and ...
Feb 06, 2020•40 min•Season 2Ep. 48
Send us a text Let's talk about a big issue we hear about a lot: Sexless marriages. Whether a wife is withholding sex because of her husband's behaviour, because she doesn't enjoy it, or just because she finds it gross, let's figure out why she cut things off, what a healthy sex life should look like, and how to get there! Podcast Extras Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Goo...
Jan 30, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Send us a text Something’s wrong in your marriage. So what do you do about it? This month I’m running my iron sharpens iron series, about how marriage is supposed to make you better people. But it can’t do that if we don’t speak up when things are wrong! So today on the podcast I’m continuing my discussion about how to confront your spouse if something’s bugging you Podcast Extras 9 Thoughts That Can Change Your Marriage Submission Podcast Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Chec...
Jan 23, 2020•37 min•Season 2Ep. 47
Send us a text It's one year this week since I ran my huge Love & Respect series . I've written about how Love & Respect treats sex horribly and harms marriages off and on throughout this last year, since the original week-long series ran. And now, on this one year anniversary, I've been tying up some loose ends, including dropping my 5500 word open letter to Focus on the Family questioning their support of Love & Respect, as we cap off our discussion. This Episode's Blog Post Suppor...
Jan 16, 2020•57 min•Season 2Ep. 46
Send us a text Let's look today at how to draw boundaries and actually see progress in messy areas of marriage. We're in the middle of our iron sharpens iron series on the blog, where I'm talking all month about how marriage is supposed to make us better people. I'm afraid that, too often in marriage, we tolerate small things early in the relationship that then become engrained habits that get worse and worse and worse. By speaking up and doing something about behaviour that is damaging to your ...
Jan 09, 2020•42 min•Season 2Ep. 44
Send us a text Last January, I read Love and Respect for the first time, and it was like a bomb had been dropped. I knew I was going to have to talk about it. One thing led to another and 2019 became a pretty big year. So let's recap on some of the big changes and talk about where we are going from here, answering a few reader questions along the way! Podcast Extras Productivity Bundle Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Bett...
Jan 02, 2020•37 min•Season 2Ep. 44
Send us a text Let's talk about what you can do to really get your wife involved and enthusiastic about your bedtime escapades. Because good things come when her pleasure is your focus Today's Links: Podcast Extras Post "Do Not Deprive" Post Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better 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 Libid...
Dec 19, 2019•36 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Send us a text With Christmas coming up, it's time to talk about something many of us dread: Navigating tricky family dynamics at holiday gatherings. Rebecca, Connor, and I are going to talk about both toxic and non-toxic family situations. Why I Didn't Rebel Podcast Extras When to Walk Away Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgas...
Dec 12, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Send us a text So often I hear the sentiment that the reason so many good christian guys are using porn is that their sexual needs are not being met by their wives. Not only is this blaming wives for their husband's sin, but it simply isn't true most of the time. So I am going to talk about this issue and lay down some facts about why porn use starts, how it affects mirriages, and how we can move past it! Here are the links from today's podcast: Today's Podcast Extras Focus on the Family Podcast...
Dec 05, 2019•41 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Send us a text My husband who is a pediatrician joins me on the podcast to address a slew of reader questions about erections. There's really not much more to say than that! Links: 31 Days to Great Sex The Whole Story To Love Honor and Vacuum Blog Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better 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 a...
Nov 21, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Send us a text Today let's talk about a very serious topic. With all the cases of pastors and other influential people in church using their power to sexually abuse members of their congregations, and the recent news about Christian comedian, John Crist, I want to talk about how to recognize the patterns and processes of people who are trying to groom others for their own purposes. Read the Podcast Extras Here Check out "Get Your Marriage On" Here Complete My Marriage Survey Here! Support the sh...
Nov 14, 2019•37 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Send us a text My grandson is 2 weeks old now, so I will be talking with my daughter about the difficulties of the road to recovery after a baby. It's a topic that people often don't talk about, but it is so important to have understanding and compassion for those going through it. On a related note, I also address a reader question about overcoming vaginismus. Take Our Marriage Survey See Today's Post Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue ...
Nov 07, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Send us a text Today is Halloween and the last Thursday of the month, which means I am once again speaking to you men out there. And this week we are talking about how to start those uncomfortable conversations about sex with your wife when you think you should both be getting more out of your sex life. Here are the links mentioned in the podcast: Post "Why Your Husband Wants You to Read This Blog" To Love Honor and Vacuum Get Your Marriage On 31 Days to Great Sex Support the show Join Sheila at...
Oct 31, 2019•39 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Send us a text Today Rebecca and I talk about one of the big ways in which we as women today are making our lives a lot more difficult than they need to be. So let's talk about areas of expertise, social comparisons, and asking for help when we need it. If you want to read the post that accompanies this episode, head on over to "To Love Honor and Vacuum!" Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Gre...
Oct 17, 2019•28 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Send us a text Today we are answering reader questions from marriages that are past the honeymoon stage and are now working on sorting life out. One reader asks what to do when your husband won't come to bed with you and stays up playing video games. Another asks if it is wrong to want a great marriage, not just a fine one. And a third reader asks what to do if your husband who is hooked on games wants to buy an Xbox at the same time your child is due! Links mentioned in the podcast: Podcast Ext...
Oct 10, 2019•38 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Send us a text Kicking off October's series on the stages of a sex life, we are addressing a number of issues and questions regarding the beginning of marriage. We will be talking about boundaries during engagement, what to do when the honeymoon years of sex aren't as mindblowing as you expected, and why the best sex is usually had after 15 years of marriage! As always, check us out on the blog , and to enter my giveaway for 31 Days to Great Sex or the set of Sexy Dares, you just have to sign up...
Oct 03, 2019•40 min•Season 1Ep. 36
