Today's guest Sheila Wray Gregoire is a public speaker, blogger, and author who focuses primarily on sex and marriage. When a long-term relationship is struggling, Sheila helps to pinpoint what is making the relationship 'blah' and what can be done about it.
In this episode, Sheila and I discuss how to build bridges of connection and communication that are at the heart of a healthy relationship. We talk about the many ways that fertility issues can affect a relationship and share some tools for improving your sex life. We also discuss ways to reconnect with a partner that is becoming distant and the main thing that drives happy couples apart.
Sheila Wray Gregoire speaks at women’s events and conferences, church outreaches, and marriage conferences. She blogs in To Love, Honor, and Vacuum, which is one of the top 25 Mom blogs on the web. Sheila is also an award-winning author. Her book The Good Girl’s Guide to Great Sex has won the 2012 top literary prize for Canadian Christian books.
She loves encouraging women in their relationships, both with God and with their husbands, children, and friends. Her passion is for marriage, and she and her husband Keith speak together at marriage outreaches and at FamilyLife Canada marriage conferences.
Sheila believes in authenticity and gives real solutions to the very real and messy problems women and couples face. When she is not working, you will probably find her knitting. Even in line at the grocery store.
Listen in to find out what to do when your spouse won't help out around the house, why we should sweat the small stuff, and how practicing yoga can improve your sex life.
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"When we start sex, we're expecting him to be so good that he brings us out of our grocery list." - Sheila Wray Gregoire
Show Notes:
- How to know if your relationship is blah
- How to get to the authentic part of a relationship
- Ways to maintain a healthy relationship
- Communicating with a partner who is an introvert
- Way to reconnect with your partner
- What is the main thing that drives couples apart
- What to do if your relationship becomes stagnant
- When your spouse won't help out around the house
- Tips for deepening your connection with your partner
- How fertility issues can affect a relationship
- Bringing pleasure back into sex
- Tools for improving your sex life
"I think a lot of spouses need to learn the concept of boundaries." - Sheila Wray Gregoire
Links Mentioned:
- TalkSex Episode 4: Demystifying the Female Orgasm
- TalkSex Episode 6: High or Low? Differences in Libido with Michaela Josephson
- Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky
- Connect with Sheila Wray Gregoire:
Facebook | YouTube | Instagram | Twitter | Great Sex Rescue
The discussion continues over on social media follow TalkSex™ with Gabriela Rosa:
"The antidote for blah is real.” - Sheila Wray Gregoire