Welcome to the Bear Marriage podcast. I'm Sheila Riggrig.

Where for Bear Marriage.com, when we like to talk about healthy, evidence-based biblical advice

for your marriage and your sex life. And I'm joined by my husband Keith, who is amazing. And he is my co-author for the book The Marriage You Want.

And we're in the middle of launching it. It comes out on March 11th. It is our new book based on an

all-new survey. And can I just say, we've, we just had such amazing conversations in the launch team for the marriage you want and just getting feedback from people who are reading it.

It's time for health.

I just think the church is ready for this.

Yeah.

You know, when I got married, when we got married back in 1991, I read some really destructive Christian marriage books because that's all that was out there. And it

really threw me through a loop. Like we're still dealing with some of the ramifications, what,

33 years later of reading the act of marriage by Tim Leahy. And we had just letters to Philip and

some of these really awful books that we read back then. And we didn't have love and respect.

Not yet.

That came later.

But so many of you have gone through the same thing where you've read these bad books

and you're dealing with repercussions.

And we don't want that anymore.

It's not necessary.

None of it was biblical to begin with.

And that's the thing is we were told there's no other way to do marriage than this.

Yeah. told there's no other way to do marriage than this. And that was the most devastating part of it,

because now we've realized that that is unbiblical. Like when you actually get back to what the Bible

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