Welcome to Season 9 of the Bear Marriage podcast.

I'm Sheila Ray Gregor from Bear Marriage.com, where we'd like to talk about healthy

evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage. And Rebecca, I think this is season nine. It is.

It is our first one back since the summer. That's very exciting. I know. I hope people missed us.

I'm sure that they did. Yes. And I know that and I hope that they were reading all the fiction books that you talked about on the last podcast of the season at the end of June. And I hope that they were reading all the fiction books that you talked about on the last

podcast of the season at the end of June.

And it's now the beginning of August.

And we've spent a little bit of time relaxing, kind of.

But we're also getting ready to move and do a whole bunch of stuff in our personal life.

Yes. There's a lot going on in our personal lives, which means this has been the least relaxing, relaxing time in our entire life. Yes, yes. But as we are back here for season nine, and I think season nine is kind of arbitrary. Like, I don't, I don't even know when we began counting seasons. I think we, we retconned it quite a bit. Yeah, that's about a season, right?

Yeah. And so we are starting a new season, but I actually do have a bit of a plan. Okay.

I have a theme that I want to talk about for the first few weeks of this season, which is how do we

change people's minds? You know, because so many people are deep into this idea that sex is primarily about men,

that men have needs that women have to fulfill, that men are in authority over women,

that women can't speak up.

And it's hurting people.

Yep.

Right?

Yep.

A very power hungry focus on how the world works.

The idea that there is a right way and we have to make everyone conform to the right way, even if it's hurting them because it's the right way.

Yeah, because it's what God says, even though it's not. No. And so, like, that's one of the things we've been trying to do with our books, with the Great Sex Rescue, but she deserves better with the marriage you want, is like, how do we break through that and say, hey, there's a Jesus way. There's a better way that is in line with scripture, is in line with Jesus, but that actually helps you flourish. And it's like, how do we break through and get people to see that? And so this is the, this is like the $64,000 question

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