It’s Time to Let Your Husband Off the Hook
This is not what you signed up for. When you said Yes you thought you were getting friendship, intimacy, even…
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Seven Things I Do Every Day: Navigating My Midlife Lifestyle
For all you women out there trying to navigate your menopause and midlife season, I see you. I get you.…
How to Help Your Wife Navigate Menopause and Midlife
As a husband, if your wife is approaching or experiencing menopause you may feel frustrated and powerless. You may feel…
You Don’t Need This if You’re Comfortable with Change
You can ignore the rest of this post if: Changes internally or externally don’t bother or disturb you at all…
Join Me in Becoming A Woman Fully Alive
Life can be hard on a woman. Growing up is hard enough. Then comes choosing a career, perhaps marriage and…
Uncovering the Heart of a Christian Woman
It’s never been easy to be a woman. Ever since the Garden of Eden the serpent has come against Eve…
Submission in Christian Marriage
Hear the word “submission” and “marriage” in the same sentence and you may be gripped by the sudden urge to…
To the Wife Traumatized by Married Sex
Just because sex happens within marriage doesn’t always mean it’s good. God designed sex to be a beautiful life-giving nurturing…
Sex Before Marriage: What I Did Right – And Wrong
I did it right. I made it. I didn’t have sex before marriage. And it was a long wait, too.…
What does Wholeness Look Like?
Jesus had a wonderful way of asking questions. You may know the story well. Jesus sees a man lying on…
He Needs You to Need Him
This one is for wives only. (I know; you may read this even if you’re not a wife.) But here’s…
Did I Marry the Wrong Person?
It’s important to choose your spouse wisely. But you’re already married! When your relationship goes sideways it’s easy to feel…
To the Woman Feeling Rejected By Her Husband
You’re a woman feeling rejected. Part of you believes it shouldn’t bother you so much, but it does. You thought…
What To Do When Your Husband Doesn’t Want To Have Sex With You
The stereotype of a man pressuring his wife for sex does not apply to every relationship: there are many women who experience just the opposite. Even when a woman is not the sexual aggressor, it wounds a woman’s heart when her husband does not demonstrate sexual attraction to her.
Rather than wallowing in self-pity, or looking outside the marriage for satisfaction, here are five questions to consider if your husband appears to shrink from having sex with you.
Submission in Christian Marriage
Hear the words “submission” and “marriage” in the same sentence and you may feel something visceral rise up in your…
When Your Past Complicates Intimacy
People who research such things say that somewhere around 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men have been…
Responding to #MeToo with More than a Hashtag
Gretchen Carlson. Alyssa Milano. Angelina Jolie. Katie Couric. Lady Gaga. Beth Moore. Kay Warren. Thousands of women from every walk…
When Is It Abuse?
God designed marriage to be a transformative, healing, growth-producing, fulfilling relationship full of intimacy and love. In our sinful messed-up…
5 Things Your Husband Needs From You
So many people look at marriage as a way to get their own needs met. In a godly healthy marriage…
Pursuing Intimacy with Your Husband
(This is a message especially for wives. Last week I talked about the other side – a message for husbands.)…
What to Do when Your Husband Calls You Frigid
Your husband berates you when you turn down his requests for sex, or when you don’t want to do the…
5 Steps to a New Marriage in 2017
(While this is written especially for my women readers, the principles apply wither you’re a husband or a wife.) Wouldn’t…
What Is a Healthy Christian Woman?
How do you know if you’re healthy? What does “healthy” mean anyway – as a woman, as a Christian? Are…
A Woman’s Beauty and Strength: Dangerous or Delightful?
Can we talk? Just you and me, girlfriend? A woman’s beauty is one source of her strength. But everything depends…
Menopausal Wife, Frustrated Husband
A very frustrated husband reached out to me: “My wife seems like a different person since she became menopausal. I’m having…
How to Know God as your Husband
There’s that Scripture you know should mean more to you: “Your Maker is your husband.” (Isaiah 54:5) But you’re just…
Women’s Health and Shame
Women’s health topics bring up such strong emotions – “for” and “against” and everything in-between. By listening to some people you’d…
Preserving Your Marriage while Building Your Family
(I’m thrilled to be guest posting for my friend Elisha Kearns over at Waiting for Baby Bird today. Thank you!…
Does God Care If You’re Overweight?
God cares about everything. EVERYTHING! That might leave you feeling a bit ashamed if there’s something you know God cares about…
Christian Women, their Hormones, and their Mental Health
You feel crazy. And your man is CERTAIN that you’re crazy. You feel as though you are a victim to…
6 Ways Women Can Prevent Cancer
Statistics say that about 1 in 3 of us will develop cancer during our lifetime, and about 1 in 5…
What is a Submissive Wife?
She is obviously struggling. As a young wife and mother she wants to do things God’s way. She wrote to…
5 Ways to Better Sleep When You’re Stressed
Have you ever struggled to get a good night’s sleep? If so you’re not alone. And you may have contributed…
What is a Healthy Christian Woman?
What is a Healthy Christian Woman? What does she look like? How does she feel? How can you tell? Are…
What Does Women’s Health Have To Do With Your Faith?
She and I were waiting together in the green room at the church, preparing to make our respective presentations to…
Women In Charge!
Women have a difficult time in this world. We always have. It’s not that men always have it easy, but…
The Meaning of Sex in the Heart of a Woman
Sex is messy. And the messiness of sex is not primarily physical (although it is that). The meaning of sex,…
Why I Hate Unnecessary Suffering
There were, and still are, many reasons I’m glad I became an OB-Gyn doctor. I love serving women in some…
Keys to Finding Life After Infertility
You’ve spent months – no, YEARS – trying to have a baby. You’ve tracked your cycles, had sex on demand,…
6 Things You Can Do to Look Younger
Your face at 20 is the result of your parent’s choices. Your face at 80 is the result of your…
Preparing for Marriage when you Carry Bad Baggage
None of us goes through life baggage-free. But some of us seem to accumulate more than our fair share of…
To the Woman Whose Husband is Addicted to Pornography
I hear from you regularly, you whose husband’s eyes are filled with many other women and not with you. You…
What I Wish Christian Parents Would Teach Kids About Sex
At 15 years old she was scared. Her mother sat there silent. I confirmed that Angela (not her real name)…
Preparing For Menopause
It seems that every time I’m around a group of women and they find out I’m an OB-Gyn doctor the…
Reasons to Have a Baby for Christians
Some couples assume that having children is just something you do when you get married, and don’t give much thought…
The Emotional Weight of Having an STD
As an OB-Gyn physician one of the most frequent difficult discussions I have with women is about STDs – sexually…
5 Ways a Woman Can Make a Miserable Man
Can’t life with them; can’t live without them. That’s how some men see us women. And perhaps we’ve given them…
Should Christian Couples Use Contraception?
The publicity the Duggar family has enjoyed has promoted the idea that having an unlimited number of children is the…
Help For Connecting You With God
Marilyn would have preferred to be almost anywhere else that day. She had faced similar medical issues in the past,…
You Don’t Have To Be Happily Married
There’s no checkbox for “relationship status” on the employment application God gives you. And regardless of how the culture in…
