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Episode 187: 'Nice Guy' Syndrome & Drawing Boundaries: What Girls Need to Know

THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST Our new book She Deserves Better Support us for as little as $5 a month, and get access to unfiltered podcasts, our exclusive Facebook group, and more. Join our Patreon! Article on the problem with “Nice Guy” behavior when it’s rooted in entitlement Our episode of Theology in the Raw with Preston Sprinkle (the interesting parts are from 30 minutes on) Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better ...

Episode 186: Shame, DARVO & Spiritual Bypassing - Let's get to the bottom of it! ft. Jasmine Holmes

Things mentioned in our Podcast! Our Patreon! Thank you for supporting us and helping us fund our research. You can join us for as little as $5 a month! Jasmine Holmes’ new book Never Cast Out! Plus find her on Instagram.  Jasmine on our podcast a few months ago talking about her book Carved in Ebony. Our book She Deserves Better! Pre-order it and get access to our bonuses.  Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good...

Episode 185: Trauma, EMDR, and 'Himpathy' ft. Jenna Mountain

Links to things mentioned: Our Patreon! Support us for as little as $5 a month! Our new book She Deserves Better! Send in your pre-order receipts for lots of pre-order bonuses.  Study on Himpathy on what makes people sympathize with perpetrators rather than victims Jenna Mountain's counseling center Aspen Haus 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 S...

Episode 184: Why do WOMEN also push the Modesty Messages? plus Why Churches Need to Recognize Date Rape

Links to things mentioned: Pre-Order She Deserves Better and join our launch team! The Launch Team closes on Tuesday, March 28, so get your pre-order receipts in now! Help support our research, plus get access to unfiltered podcasts, an amazing Facebook group, and more, by joining our Patreon Last week's podcast where we looked at the problems with one of Shaunti Feldhahn's survey questions around modesty A podcast where we walked through another issue with Shaunti Feldhahn's survey ques...

Episode 183: What Modesty Messages Did to Us

THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST She Deserves Better–our new book! Preorder on Amazon, or here are other places to get it (Baker Books has 40% off and free shipping within the U.S.!). Join the launch team if you’re willing to write a review! On Modesty: We shouldn’t sacrifice teens’ well-being for adult men’s comfort 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 Gr...

Episode 182: 'Do Girls Talk Too Much?' Another claim that was made up

Links to things mentioned: Our book She Deserves Better! Pre-order it now (it helps us a ton), and then on Monday I'll give you information on how you can join the launch team.  Sign up for my email list so you don't miss out on joining the launch team A study of gender differences in children and number of words spoken (hint, not much of a difference) An article explaining the issue of faulty claims, and giving the results of a study inspired by these faulty claims. The Mendelberg and ...

Episode 181: How Does Dating Affect Teens? Let's look at the data!

Should we kiss dating good-bye? In purity culture, we made dating a sin. But what does the data actually say about how dating affects teen girls? In today's Bare Marriage podcast, we share our findings from our survey of 7000 women! Things Mentioned in the Podcast: Our new book She Deserves Better, which launches April 18! It helps us immensely when you pre-order! Sign up for my email list to be notified about how you can join the launch team! Our book The Great Sex Rescue The Universit...

Episode 180: Exodus Cry: What We Need to Know about Sex Trafficking

Links to things mentioned: Our Patreon that helps support our podcast! You can join for as little as $5 a month! There's unfiltered podcasts, our exclusive Facebook group (it's really active!), merch, and more! Exodus Cry. Check out the organization and see what they're doing! See how to get involved (it's easy!). Join the fight against PornHub, sign petitions, read their articles, and more! Watch Exodus Cry's documentaries. They're so well done and hard hitting. Follow Benjamin and Exo...

Episode 179: Why Did a Church Put a Marital Rape Victim under Church Discipline?

Today I want to tell you the story of an amazing woman who was the victim of her marriage AND her church that knew all the gory details, and yet chose to put her under discipline when she decided to end the marriage. TRIGGER WARNING In the first half of the podcast there is graphic descriptions of what her husband did to her. I did mention during the podcast when this was about to occur, so that people could fast forward if they chose to. But the description is horrendous. I wanted people ...

Episode 178: Fixing Conversations Together! ft. Ngina Otiende & Philip Payne

Links to things mentioned: Our Patreon! Our research relies on your support, and we're doing two huge new research projects this year. Join us on Patreon! Ngina Otiende: https://intentionaltoday.com/  https://twitter.com/NginaOtiende Philip Payne's new book The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood (available for pre-order now!) Other books by Philip Payne, including Man and Woman, One in Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Paul's Letters, and Mutual by Design (where he has written a c...

Episode 177: The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood ft Philip Payne

Links to things mentioned: Our Patreon! Our research relies on your support, and we're doing two huge new research projects this year. Join us on Patreon! Philip Payne's new book The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood (available for pre-order now!) Other books by Philip Payne, including Man and Woman, One in Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Paul's Letters, and Mutual by Design (where he has written a chapter on headship) Philip Payne's Twitter Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com! ...

Episode 176: Bring Back 'Vanilla' Sex!

Links to things mentioned: Our Patreon! Support us for as little as $5 a month, and you can get access to our awesome Facebook group, our unfiltered podcasts, and more! This is the LAST WEEK to get the ebook for The Great Sex Rescue for just $2.99! On February 1 it goes up to its regular price! The Orgasm Course! If this is a struggle for you, we can help. https://baremarriage.com/the-orgasm-course/ Our new book She Deserves Better is out in April! You can pre-order it now. My post Brin...

Episode 175: How Emerson Eggerichs Misuses Scripture in Love & Respect ft. Nijay Gupta

Links to things mentioned: Our Patreon! Support us for as little as $5 a month and get access to unfiltered podcasts, while supporting our work counteracting harmful messages of marriage in the evangelical church OUR LOVE & RESPECT ONESHEET: Download our new resource Nijay Gupta's upcoming book Tell Her Story. Follow Nijay on Twitter! Our post on Baby Bibles distorting the Genesis account Our original Love & Respect post, followed by our Open Letter to Focus on the Family, Our look at h...

Episode 174: Why You CAN Trust Your Emotions ft. Becky Castle Miller

Links to things mentioned: Patreon: https://patreon.com/baremarriage She Deserves Better (our new book coming in April; you can pre-order it now!) https://amzn.to/3ZGFs2P The Great Sex Rescue (on for just $2.39 on ebook this month, and the paperback is on sale too!) https://amzn.to/3GV4aou Becky Castle Miller Website: https://www.beckycastlemiller.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bcastlemiller TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@beckycastlemiller Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/...

Episode 173: The Strike at Putney: What Would Happen if Women Just Stopped?

Links to things mentioned: Our Patreon! Support our work for as little as $5 a month, including all the amazing things that are coming in 2023, including two new big surveys, one sheets of harmful books to give to your churches, and scholarships as others continue the research! Our podcast on finding new church homes The Strike at Putney by Lucy Maud Montgomery Our podcast with Beth Allison Barr The research study finding that churches with gender hierarchy produce worse health outcomes...

Episode 172: We Are Not Spiritually Homeless Anymore! A Personal Christmas Update

THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST Our Patreon! They’ve supported some amazing projects this year, and you can join us for as little as $5 a month!  The original podcast on feeling spiritually homeless Last year’s update on feeling so disappointed by faith leaders (plus the podcast on how the authors we critiqued responded to The Great Sex Rescue) 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 a...

Episode 171: Identifying Spiritual Abuse and Trauma ft Dr. Foluso and Johnna Harris

Links to things mentioned: Our patreon community! Join for as little as $5 a month, and get access to our exclusive Facebook group, merch, and more! https://patreon.com/baremarriage The Bodies Behind the Bus podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bodies-behind-the-bus/id1601586078 and Johnna Harris' Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bbtbpod/ Me as a guest on the Bodies Behind the Bus podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/guest-sheila-gregoire/id1601586078?i=1000555692110 ...

Episode 170: Does God Hate Divorce? plus The Women Carved in Ebony

Links to things mentioned: Our Patreon! Support us for as little as $5 a month, and get access to unfiltered podcasts, more merch, and an exclusive Facebook Group! Our Merch! Makes great last minute Christmas gifts, and check out our Be a Biblical Woman or our Love & Respect collection, or even our new Fixed it For You! Winston Bosch’s Sermons: What God Hates More than Divorce (Mal. 2:16): Jesus and Divorce; and Paul and Divorce Jasmine Holmes’ book Carved in Ebony, plus find Jasmine on...

Episode 169: Learned Helplessness & Sex ft. Sam Tielemens

Links to things mentioned: Our Merch–mugs, t-shirts, canvas wall hangings and more that are great for Christmas gifts and stocking stuffers. Check out our Love & Respect collection, our Biblical Womanhood collection, and especially our Be a Biblical Woman collection! Our Patreon–join for as little as $5 a month and help support our research! A brief synopsis of the learned helplessness experiments with dogs, and then a run down on the learned helplessness experiment in the classroom. Plus...

Episode 168: The Myth of the Magical Penis

Links to things mentioned: Our Patreon: Support us for as little as $5 a month to help us branch out and continue this movement! https://patreon.com/baremarriage The Great Sex Rescue: https://baremarriage.com/great-sex-rescue/ Our series on our 4 step recovery plan when sex has become a major issue: https://baremarriage.com/2022/11/the-sex-recovery-series-4-point-plan-to-rebuild-your-sex-life/ One story on what recovery looks like: https://baremarriage.com/2022/11/heres-what-recovery-from-se...

Episode 168: The Myth of the Magical Penis

Links to things mentioned: Our Patreon: Support us for as little as $5 a month to help us branch out and continue this movement! https://patreon.com/baremarriage The Great Sex Rescue: https://baremarriage.com/great-sex-rescue/ Our series on our 4 step recovery plan when sex has become a major issue: https://baremarriage.com/2022/11/the-sex-recovery-series-4-point-plan-to-rebuild-your-sex-life/ One story on what recovery looks like: https://baremarriage.com/2022/11/heres-what-recovery-from-se...

Episode 167: 'Unwanted' - Discovering our Route to Sexual Healing ft. Jay Stringer

Links to things mentioned: Our Patreon: Support us for as little as $5 a month to help us branch out and continue this movement! https://patreon.com/baremarriage The Great Sex Rescue: https://baremarriage.com/great-sex-rescue/ Jay Stringer’s book Unwanted: https://amzn.to/3DOvJgo Jay’s website: https://jay-stringer.com/ Jay’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jay_stringer_/ Emily Nagoski’s book Come As You Are https://amzn.to/3zYymvd Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com! Check out h...

Episode 166: A Deep Dive into Ephesians 5 - Why Hierarchy in Marriage Doesn't Work

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, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

Episode 165: The 3 Types of Libido

Links to things mentioned: Our Patreon! Support where this blog is going for as little as $5 a month! The Boost Your Libido Course and The Orgasm Course The birth control series where we went over how some contraception methods MAY affect libido How our hormones and our cycle affect libido Our post on how the sexual debut affects libido later Our post on how mental load and division of labor affects libido Our Love AND Respect Merch Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com! Check out her bo...

Episode 164: Scary Body Language & Telling on Yourself

Links to things mentioned: Our Patreon: https://patreon.com/baremarriage The study on Who Cheats More: https://ifstudies.org/blog/who-cheats-more-the-demographics-of-cheating-in-america The Dennis Prager Facebook Video: https://www.facebook.com/prageru/videos/868111834352628/ The Great Sex Rescue: https://baremarriage.com/great-sex-rescue/ The podcast with Alyssa Wakefield https://baremarriage.com/2022/06/groomed-for-an-abusive-arranged-marriage-alyssa-wakefields-story-podcast/ The pod...

Episode 164: Scary Body Language & Telling on Yourself

Links to things mentioned: Our Patreon: https://patreon.com/baremarriage The study on Who Cheats More: https://ifstudies.org/blog/who-cheats-more-the-demographics-of-cheating-in-america The Dennis Prager Facebook Video: https://www.facebook.com/prageru/videos/868111834352628/ The Great Sex Rescue: https://baremarriage.com/great-sex-rescue/ The podcast with Alyssa Wakefield https://baremarriage.com/2022/06/groomed-for-an-abusive-arranged-marriage-alyssa-wakefields-story-podcast/ The pod...

Episode 163: Let's Talk Ogling and Dressing for Attention - Research Deep Dive Episode!

Links to things mentioned: See the study! Want an easier way to read a summary of the study? Read yesterday's post. Previous podcast: are men and women's brains really that different?  Previous podcast: Let's talk MODESTY. Follow Meghan Tschanz on Instagram Learn more about The Great Sex Rescue 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 h...

Episode 162: Why We Need a New Standard for Healthy Teaching Today

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, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

Episode 162: Why We Need a New Standard for Healthy Teaching Today

Episode 161: Should Pastors be Expected to Give Sex Advice?

Links to things mentioned: Our Patreon! Support us for as little as $5 a month, and fund our ongoing projects The Great Sex Rescue, our book that showed the issues with a lot of evangelical teaching about sex, based on our survey of 20,000 women Our Merch: Check out our Be a Biblical Woman collection The other times we've talked about Josh Howerton, specifically with Josh Howerton plagiarizing others; and Josh Howerton misrepresenting research.  Download our rubric of healthy sexuality ...

Episode 160: How Marriage Advice can be Misdiagnosed

Links to things mentioned: Our Patreon! Our patrons have helped us have the time and flexibility to write She Deserves Better (out in April), along with the stats for The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex. Right now Joanna is working on two different peer-reviewed papers, and our next big project we'd like to fund is creating a database of good and bad books. You can support us for as little as $5 a month, and get behind-the-scenes access! Support us here....

Episode 159: How Christian Marriage Books Set Me Up For Failure ft. Natalie Hoffman

Links to things mentioned: Natalie’s Flying Free site, and Natalie’s awesome Facebook Page, Instagram, and YouTube channel. Plus listen in to her podcast! Natalie’s book “Is It Me”? The terrible books Natalie mentioned: Our post about Created To Be His Helpmeet; Julie Anne Smith’s review of The Excellent Wife by Martha Peace The book that helped Natalie: Leslie Vernick’s Emotionally Destructive Marriage Patrick Weaver’s I Hate Divorce t-shirts Patrick Weaver on the Malachi verse that is too...

Episode 158: Pastors Plagiarizing: An Example Using Josh Howerton--with Scot McKnight's commentary

On Plagiarism: Scot McKnight's book A Church Called TOV https://amzn.to/3cRXoDM Scot McKnight's New Testament Everyday Bible Study Series: https://amzn.to/3x3CBUV Scot McKnight's previous podcast with us: https://baremarriage.com/2021/04/podcast-a-church-called-tov-and-matthew-18/ Warren Throckmorton on Mark Driscoll's apparent plagiarism: https://wthrockmorton.com/2014/03/03/mark-driscolls-tim-keller-remix-is-this-plagiarism/ David Dzimianski on Tim Keller's apparent plagiarism: h...

Episode 157: Celebrities for Jesus -- Who should we follow? ft Katelyn Beaty

THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST Our Patreon! Support us for as little as $5 a month and get access to an awesome Facebook group, unfiltered podcasts, and more. Or if you don’t want to support long term, considering leaving something in our tip jar!  Katelyn Beaty’s book Celebrities for Jesus! Plus find Katelyn on Twitter ! That’s where I got to know her. Our evidence-based courses: The Orgasm Course and the Boost Your Libido course and the Honeymoon Prep Course! Join Sheila at Bare Marri...

Episode 156: How The Authors We Critiqued Responded to The Great Sex Rescue

Links to things mentioned: https://www.amazon.ca/Great-Rescue-Sheila-Wray-Gregoire/dp/1540900827 http://Patreon.com/baremarriage Download our rubric and scorecard! https://baremarriage.com/gsr-rubric/ The blog post where I include links for everything I talked about, plus write out the email we sent to Gary Thomas: https://baremarriage.com/2022/08/podcast-how-have-the-authors-we-critiqued-responded-to-the-great-sex-rescue/ Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com! Check out her books: The Gr...

Episode 155: The Rise of Lonely Men - Plus How to be Inspiring!

Links to things mentioned: Patreon https://patreon.com/baremarriage Our Whole Story Sex & Puberty course: https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/the-whole-story/ An article about Chief Theresa Kachimondoto https://www.lifegate.com/theresa-kachindamoto-child-marriage-malawi The All the Books YouTube video: https://youtu.be/rFl8sJg8VqY The Rise of Lonely, Single Men https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-state-our-unions/202208/the-rise-lonely-single-men Pew Research Study they cite: ...

Episode 155: The Rise of Lonely Men - Plus How to be Inspiring!

Links to things mentioned: Patreon https://patreon.com/baremarriage Our Whole Story Sex & Puberty course: https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/the-whole-story/ An article about Chief Theresa Kachimondoto https://www.lifegate.com/theresa-kachindamoto-child-marriage-malawi The All the Books YouTube video: https://youtu.be/rFl8sJg8VqY The Rise of Lonely, Single Men https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-state-our-unions/202208/the-rise-lonely-single-men Pew Research Study they cite: ...

Episode 154: Katharine Bushnell: Another Hero you NEED to know ft. Kristen Kobes Du Mez + Julie Coleman

Links to things mentioned: The New Gospel for Women: Katharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism https://amzn.to/3QivoHX On Purpose: Understanding God's Freedom for Women Through Scripture Julie Zine Coleman https://amzn.to/3zKYB7y Patreon: http://patreon.com/baremarriage The Great Sex Rescue https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/great-sex-rescue/ Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide t...

Episode 153: Josephine Butler: The Hero You Never knew

Links to things mentioned: Josephine Butler, Patron Saint of Prostitutes (it's a great read for the summer!) Join our Patreon and support the podcast transcription--and all the research we're doing! Check out our biblical womanhood merch! If you haven't read The Great Sex Rescue yet, you need to. It seriously will change your life. And then buy it for a pastor or counselor you know! Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better ...

Do You Know What Your Wife Has Been Taught About Sex? (Rerun Summer Episode)

Links to things mentioned: The Great Sex Rescue: Our new book, that looks at how harmful some of these messages have been Support our research by joining our Patreon group! Even for as  little as $5 or $8 a month! Our "Do All Men Struggle with Lust" podcast Our open letter to Focus on the Family about Love & Respect (at the bottom of this post is links to all of the other things we've said about this book) The study on complaining and maladaptive worry and status Join Sheila at Bare Ma...

Duty Sex isn't Sexy! (Rerun Summer Episode)

Links to things mentioned: Andrew Bauman: https://andrewjbauman.com/ And his book The Sexually Healthy Man: https://amzn.to/3p4JmyF Benjamin Young's Twitter Thread: https://twitter.com/BJYoung1990/status/1353521004073652224 Benjamin Young's ministry Guard the Gift: https://guardthegift.com/ The Great Sex Rescue: https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/great-sex-rescue/ Our Previous Podcast on Marital Rape and Consent: https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/2020/04/podcast-marital-rape-consent/

Duty Sex isn't Sexy! (Rerun Summer Episode)

Links to things mentioned: Andrew Bauman: https://andrewjbauman.com/ And his book The Sexually Healthy Man: https://amzn.to/3p4JmyF Benjamin Young's Twitter Thread: https://twitter.com/BJYoung1990/status/1353521004073652224 Benjamin Young's ministry Guard the Gift: https://guardthegift.com/ The Great Sex Rescue: https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/great-sex-rescue/ Our Previous Podcast on Marital Rape and Consent: https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/2020/04/podcast-marital-rape-consent/ Jo...

Can We Stop Talking About Girls Being Stumbling Blocks and Causing Men to Lust? (Rerun Summer Episode)

Links to things mentioned: The Blog: https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com 4 Stages of Porn Recovery: https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/2020/04/4-stages-of-porn-recovery-what-porn-recovery-in-marriage-looks-like/  The Bell-curve Modesty Rule: https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/2019/03/new-look-at-christian-modesty-guidelines/ The Whole Story: https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/the-whole-story/ The Great Sex Rescue: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Sex-Rescue-Recover-Intended/dp/1540900827 Andrew Bau...

Unconditional Respect is NOT a Thing! (Rerun Summer Episode)

Links to things mentioned:  The Blog: https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com  Follow Sheila on Instagram: @sheilagregoire https://instagram.com/sheilagregoire  Dr. Cynthia Long Westfall: https://www.amazon.ca/Paul-Gender-Reclaiming-Apostles-Vision/dp/0801097940 https://mcmasterdivinity.ca/faculty-and-administration/cynthia-long-westfall/ The Great Sex Rescue: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Sex-Rescue-Recover-Intended/dp/1540900827  Psychology Today article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/b...

Episode 152: What is Killing Women's Libido?

Things Mentioned in This Podcast: The Great Sex Rescue Our totally revamped Boost Your Libido course Elora Dodd on Instagram , plus her Reel on Men’s Purity books and Women’s Purity Books Our What’s Killing Women’s Libido series 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 cours...

Episode 152: What is Killing Women's Libido?

Things Mentioned in This Podcast: The Great Sex Rescue Our totally revamped Boost Your Libido course Elora Dodd on Instagram , plus her Reel on Men’s Purity books and Women’s Purity Books Our What’s Killing Women’s Libido series

Episode 151: Why John Piper Should Stop Speaking on Marriage -- and turning the other cheek!

Links to things mentioned: John Piper article on harsh husbands: https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/counsel-for-wives-with-harsh-husbands Our original Facebook Live (expanded content from this podcast, extra 13 minutes on end): https://www.facebook.com/100044310975500/videos/1036770680299677 Our article talking about John Piper and harsh husbands: https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/2022/06/john-piper-tells-women-with-harsh-husbands-to-basically-do-nothing/ Dr. Alison Cook on Turning...

Episode 150: Escaping a Sex Cult: Alyssa Wakefield's Story Part 2

Links to things mentioned: Part 1 of Alyssa's story:  https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/2022/06/groomed-for-an-abusive-arranged-marriage-alyssa-wakefields-story-podcast/ Wendy Snyder's FREE Parenting Workshop Registration: https://freshstartfamilyonline.com/bare-marriage-disciplineclass/ TraumaMAMAS app: https://www.wildernesstowild.com/wild-traumamamas-mobile-app Find Sarah McDugal: https://www.instagram.com/sarahmcdugal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahmcdugalauthor Natalie Hof...

Episode 149: Groomed for an Abusive Arranged Marriage: Alyssa Wakefield's Story Part 1

What 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. Our podcast on the Gothard movement with Emily Elizabeth Anderson Our podcast on positive parenting with Wendy Snyder Register for our free webinar with Wendy! Join Sheila at B...

Episode 148: Let's Bust Some Myths About Marriage

Links to things mentioned: The Orgasm Course: https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/the-orgasm-course/ Podcast where we talked about postpartum sex: https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/2021/11/the-sexual-favors-postpartum-podcast-can-we-please-stop-being-selfish/ Review of Married Sex: https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/2022/01/a-book-review-of-married-sex-by-gary-thomas-and-debra-fileta/ Mental Load Podcast: https://tolovehonorandvacuum.com/2020/06/the-emotional-labor-and-mental-load-podcast/