It's here.

The marriage you want is out.

It is launched.

Welcome to the Bear Marriage podcast.

I'm Sheila Ray Greg.

We're from Bear Marriage.com where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage. And I am joined in this special launch week by my husband and co-author Keith.

Hey, everybody. And it's Thursday. Yes. Which means the book's been out for two days. Although we're recording this last week. So I'm hoping everything, I'm assuming, everything is fine.

Podcast timing is weird.

And hopefully the reviews are starting to come in on Amazon.

We had a whole bunch on Goodreads last week.

And yeah, this is exciting.

It's exciting.

A lot of people are saying a lot of really good things already, so it's nice to see.

Yeah.

We are going to change the evangelical conversation about marriage.

So I thought on this podcast, we could take a bit of a bird's eye view of what it is that

we wanted to do with this book, a little bit of the story of the book, why we wrote it,

et cetera. And, you know, this was one of those books that I wasn't actually planning on writing.

I wasn't even originally that excited about writing it because we were writing about sex so much.

And then we went to Zondervin with our idea for the Great Sex Rescue. And they

didn't like the idea. They thought that it wouldn't sell. They thought it did, there wasn't really a

market for it. They thought there was enough books about sex, I think, is what they thought. Well, yeah,

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