Episode 269: The Marriage Hierarchy of Needs—and Why Compromise Doesn’t Work

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

Marriage, Social Sciences, Science, Relationships, Sex, Christianity, Wife, Religion & Spirituality, Mother, Society & Culture, Advice, Family

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Send us a text Ever tried to find a compromise when you’re having an argument—but even the compromise doesn’t seem fair? In today’s podcast we explain why—using what we call The Marriage Hierarchy of Needs. We talk about this in our new book The Marriage You Want! Basically, compromise only works if you both start off on equal footing. But if one of you is already doing more than their fair share, compromise just makes it even more unequal. So let’s talk about foundation vs. frills, how to ov...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bear Marriage podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Greg. We're from Bearmarriage.com
0:16.4	Where we like to help you get the marriage you want through healthy evidence-based biblical
0:22.5	advice for your sex life and your marriage and I am joined today by my husband and co-author
0:27.3	of the marriage you want Keith. Hey everybody and we're just having fun going through this book.
0:32.4	Yes. Yeah it's the marriage you want is out March 11th and our launch team is up and running.
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0:40.0	So if you've pre-order, just send in your pre-order receipt to pre-order at marriage you want
0:43.8	book.com.
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0:52.3	So super fun. And before we get started today,
0:56.4	I just wanted to say a special thank you to another group online that makes my life wonderful,
1:01.9	which is our patron group. Our patrons support us on a monthly basis. And for as little as $5 a month,
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1:11.9	we have tons of posts every week. Oh yeah. And for this- It's very busy. For this podcast in
1:16.3	particular, I brainstormed with them. I said, hey, I need some ideas for this and I got a bunch
1:21.0	of ideas of examples. So yeah, my patron group is just really good for me for that and is just really
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