Welcome to the Bear Marriage Podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Gregwar from Bear Marriage.com where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your marriage and your sex life and we like to strip away everything else and just lay bare what God actually intended for marriage.

And we are in the middle of Marriage Misdiagnosis Month.

All month we've been talking about some of the ways the messaging around marriage

can go really awry in the evangelical church and today we're going to dive into

that more deeply with my husband Keith. Hey everybody who is joining us but before we do that I just want to give a special

shout out to our patrons we appreciate all of you so much we have a group of amazing

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They get access to unfiltered podcasts and to an exclusive Facebook group and more

Birch if they're if they're hired to your patrons and the money that they give actually allowed us and

gave us the freedom to write our new book that's coming out in April, she deserves better,

and it allows us to do all kinds of fun projects,

even like funding Joanna to do the stats

for the new Good Guys Guide to Great Sex

and the All New Good Girls Guide to Great Sex.

So we have a lot of other projects coming up so thank you to our patrons and you can join us there. There's a link in the

podcast notes and of course there's also links to where you can get some of our merch as well. We have awesome canvas prints to put on your wall.

We have notebooks.

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to be a biblical woman, what it really means

to be a biblical woman.

It's not sugar and spice and everything nice. It's like

jail and ten pegs and leading like Deborah and and teaching like Brasilla and

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