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Bare Marriage
Tired of Christian pat answers about marriage? The podcast that goes in-depth into marriage, parenting, and even sex--to see how we can live the passionate life we were meant for. Paired with Bare Marriage--the blog!
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Episode 57: Marital Rape, Consent, and Obligation Sex
Send us Fan Mail We need to talk about what actually constitutes rape and consent in marriage, and where obligation sex fits into the conversation Podcast…
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Episode 56: "Sheet Music" is Really Explicit!
Send us Fan Mail Today, Rebecca and I review sheet music and talk about how a book that gives overly explicit sex advice can become just plain creepy…
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Episode 55: Reacting to "The Act of Marriage"
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Episode 54: What do Porn and Coronavirus Have in Common?
Send us Fan Mail COVID-19 is everywhere in the news right now, and people are scared. But while everyone is talking about the novel coronavirus and our…
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Start Your Engines Ep.6. Do All Men Lust?
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Episode 53: Re-imagining the Sunday Service?
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Episode 52: Are You a Community Giver or Taker
Send us Fan Mail 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?…
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Episode 51: So Many Reader Questions!
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Start Your Engines Ep.5: Finding Good Sex Advice
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Episode 50: Recovering Your Sex Life After a Baby
Send us Fan Mail The idea of having sex after giving birth is daunting, especially after complications. And if we move too fast, we risk making recovery even…
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Episode 49: What Does it Mean to Be a Sexual Being?
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Episode 48: How Do You Feel Comfortable in Your Body
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Start Your Engines Ep.4: When Your Wife Won't Have Sex
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Episode 47: When Something is Bugging You in Your Marriage
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Episode 46: Love and Respect Wrap Up
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Episode 45: Drawing Boundaries Around a Spouse's Bad Behaviour
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Episode 44: Last Year's Frightening Revelation About Christian Teachings on Sex
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Start Your Engines Ep.3: Give Your Wife the Gift of Good Sex
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Episode 43: Family Trouble Around the Holidays
Send us Fan Mail With Christmas coming up, it's time to talk about something many of us dread: Navigating tricky family dynamics at holiday gatherings…
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Episode 42: Is It Your Fault If He Watches Porn?
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Episode 41: All About Erections
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Episode 40: How Do You Know When Someone is Grooming You?
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Episode 39: Postpartum Blues
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Start Your Engines Ep. 2: Starting Conversations About Sex
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Episode 38: How To Actually Get Your Life Together
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Episode 37: "We Have a Newborn, Husband Wants and Xbox!" and More Reader Questions
Send us Fan Mail Today we are answering reader questions from marriages that are past the honeymoon stage and are now working on sorting life out. One reader…
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Episode 36: The Honeymoon Years of Sex (Figuring it Out)
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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Start Your Engines Ep. 1: Understanding Female Sexuality
Send us Fan Mail I have had many women asking me to do a podcast for men so they can get their husbands to listen and understand women better. So, starting…
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Episode 35: Using the Bible to Gaslight Women?
Send us Fan Mail This is a long one. Recently, the author of Love and Respect sent out an email to his readers addressing some complaints he often receives…
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Episode 34: Sexonomics
Send us Fan Mail What do economics have to do with your sex life? More than you'd think. Today I talk about that in depth, and also address reader questions…
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Episode 33: What's Stressing Out Your Marriage?
Send us Fan Mail Let's talk about how a seemingly small financial decision can have a domino effect that may create stress in your marriage. Also, how can we…
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Episode 32: What Does Headship in Marriage Really Mean? It's All Greek to Me!
Send us Fan Mail We're going to be getting a little academic today as I look at the Greek and the Hebrew used in the Bible to shed some light on the discussion…
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Episode 31: The Only Way to Grow Your Marriage
Send us Fan Mail I think we often go looking for marriage advice hoping for some easy fix that doesn't really require effort or change. But that's not how to…
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Episode 30: Yoga Pants and Why We Need a Better Shame-Free Message
Send us Fan Mail We have had a lot of conversations on the blog about modesty recently, and questions about yoga pants and women who wear revealing outfits at…
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Episode 29: The Lonely Generation
Send us Fan Mail In light of recent events, I want to talk about the isolation and loneliness pervasive in today's society and address what we can do as…
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Episode 28: Taking Back Sexy
Send us Fan Mail This month I am focusing on taking back "sexy", so for today's podcast we are discussing how sexy isn't shameful. My daughter comes on to talk…
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Episode 27: The Purity Culture and the Prosperity Gospel
Send us Fan Mail Today, Joanna, Rebecca, and I talk about some sad recent news in the Christian world and talk about the current status of the purity culture…
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Episode 26: Communicating with Your Grown Up Kids
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the way we talk about dating and marriage with our kids can seriously hold them back when it comes to finding a good spouse. But…
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Episode 25: Making Marriage Easier and Pregnancy Etiquette
Send us Fan Mail Today I am on vacation so Rebecca, Connor, and Joanna take over to talk about how putting systems in place can take a lot of the stress out of…
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Episode 24: I Was Naive But Now My Eyes Are Open
Send us Fan Mail Events on the blog lately have woken me up to some of the disturbing realities of our culture, and so I talk with various members of my staff…
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Episode 23: Emotional Needs and Emotional Affairs
Send us Fan Mail Today I continue my conversation from the blog about the importance of identifying your and your spouse's emotional needs, and I get into how…
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Episode 22: How Sex Can Start Off Badly
Send us Fan Mail I just released the honeymoon course on my blog this week, so Rebecca and I have been talking about how marriages can get off to a great…
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Episode 21: Resolving Conflict With 5 Why's
Send us Fan Mail Today, my husband joins me as we talk about how there is often a deeper root to conflict than it first seems. One technique for finding that…
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Episode 20: Horrible Scorecards for Wives
Send us Fan Mail Some of our readers have shared some sin checklists and score cards for wives that are being used by their churches as resources for marital…
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Episode 19: Sex Ed for Adults
Send us Fan Mail On the blog I have been talking about sex and theology, so I'd like to bring it all together and take a look at what we can learn from the way…
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Episode 18: Remebering Rachel Held Evans: Don't Let the Church Drive You Away From Jesus
Send us Fan Mail In the wake of Rachel Held Evans' passing, Rebecca and I talk about her work and ideas about prioritizing authentic living-in-Christ over…
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Episode 17: Can We Stop with Gender Stereotypes Already?
Send us Fan Mail Today, my daughter and I talk about gender differences and gender stereotypes. God created man and woman, but culture created masculine and…
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Episode 16: Forgiveness, Healing, and Lust
Send us Fan Mail I don't think we always talk about forgiveness in a way that is actually helpful. Today I talk about what it really means to heal and move…
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Episode 15: Women and Porn, Creepy Men, and More
Send us Fan Mail We talk plenty about men struggling with porn, but today I address the growing number of women who are struggling with it. Rebecca and I also…
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Episode 14: Seriously? Are Women Actually Stumbling Blocks?
Send us Fan Mail Today I tackle the issue of modesty. We often warn women not to be stumbling blocks for men, and lay the blame for men's lust at their feet…
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Episode 13: Speak Up in Your Marriage
Send us Fan Mail All too often, big problems later on in marriage arise as a result of bad habits and poor communication earlier on. Let's talk about how to…
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Episode 12: The Burden of the Household
Send us Fan Mail Everyone is sick today, so we have a short episode of Rebecca and Connor talking about the psychological burden of being in charge of chores…
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Episode 11: A New Take on Resolving Conflict
Send us Fan Mail Today I talk about what I have learned and observed about resolving "conflicts in marriage" and present some insights on a more productive…
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Episode 10: A New Definition of Sex
Send us Fan Mail This week we're finishing up our series on how sex should be mutual--including working towards a new definition of sex. I also talk about what…
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Epidode 9: Two Keys to a Successful Marriage
Send us Fan Mail Today I talk about two small but vital things that can change your marriage from the ground up. Rebecca and I later discuss Dr. Ron Welch's…
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Episode 8: Who's being deprived
Send us Fan Mail Today we take a look at the do not deprive verses; have we been using them all wrong? I also speak with my daughter about the risks of having…
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Episode 7: How Our Bodies Work, Sexual Health, and More!
Send us Fan Mail Keeping with the theme of the month on my blog, we talk about sexual health, pelvic floor exams, testosterone levels, and flipping how sex is…
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Episode 6: Valentine's Day! Being a Sexually Confident Woman
Send us Fan Mail Today we talk about how to be a sexually confident woman, mutual sex, and more! My daughter joins me once again to talk about how modern…
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Episode 5: Hot and Holy Sex, Control Freaks, and More!
Send us Fan Mail This week we are talking a lot about sex: How to let yourself be in the moment during sex, how to turn off the parts of your brain that…
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Episode 4: You Don't Get to Be Selfish
Send us Fan Mail Today we talk about what it means when you say you regret having kids, why it's important to take our thoughts captive, how and when to…