Welcome to the Bair Marriage podcast.

I'm Sheila Ray Gregor from bearmarriage.com, where we'd like to talk about healthy, evidence-based

biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage.

And when we talk about evidence-based, do you know, life and your marriage. And when we talk about

evidence-based, do you know, we don't talk about Rebecca?

Non-evidence-based? I have no clue what I was supposed to say. We do not talk about soul

ties. Oh, well, yes, okay. Yes, which is the topic of today's podcast. So we are talking about

so all times. Yes. Oh, right. Great start. Great start. Okay. And we are joined today

by Joanna Sawatsky. Hi, everybody. Who is our co-author on The Great Sex Rescue and she

deserves better. She ran the

stats for the marriage you want, good guys guide to great sex, good girls guide to great sex. She has

everything statistics wise. She is the main author on our paper, which is published in the Sociology

of Religion Journal in November, last November, and she is in the midst of about to submit several other papers. Doing the final

edits, making sure that everything is good, dotting eyes, crossing teeth. And since we're almost

submitting, we thought, well, we might as well talk to you guys about some of our findings for one

of the two papers who were about to submit. Right. And one of them is about soul ties. Now, when we wrote

Great Sex Rescue, we talked about four big teachings, which we measured in our original survey of

20,000 women that had negative effects. But there were actually a couple of other ones that also had

negative effects. They just didn't make it into Great sex rescue because we couldn't do, you know,

whole chapters on them.

And it seemed more relevant for single people than married people.

We were writing a book about marriage.

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