The Will to Wife

That a man can be emasculated through hostility should not be difficult to understand. But is it also possible to emasculate a man through niceness? View all quotes and references here:  https://bit.ly/twtw-s01-ep020

Are you your husband’s safe place to land? View all quotes and references here: https://bit.ly/twtw-ep019-qr

A marriage with positive cultures, with positive cycles as the norm, can withstand occasional negative incidents. However, a marriage with negative cultures, with negative cycles as the norm, will not survive with only occasional positive incidents. View all quotes and references here: https://bit.ly/twtw-posts-s01-ep18

Welcome to our December 2021 End-of-the-Month Media Spotlight! This month's spotlight is on Dear Newlyweds, a compilation of addresses from Pope Pius XII. Dear Newlyweds is available at Angelus Press .* Thank you so much for spending the last five months with us! We are always happy to receive your feedback via Faceboo k and/or Anchor ! We look forward to continuing The Will to Wife in 2022. God B...

What are YOUR mental blockers to making a solid New Year’s Resolution regarding your marriage? In this episode, we address several comments we’ve recently received which are representative of the kinds of attitudes that can seriously hinder a wife’s progress towards a happy, healthy marriage. View all quotes and references here: https://bit.ly/twtw-s01-ep017

Speaking or acting in defiance of a husband’s God-given headship is a grave sin, which is why it causes such severe turmoil in marriage. View all quotes and references here: https://bit.ly/twtw-s01-ep016

Advent is here! What are you doing this year to put your marriage in the best place it can be to fully enjoy the wonders of Christmas? View all quotes and references here: https://bit.ly/twtw-s01-ep015

This month we're spotlighting an app, and not because we necessarily recommend it to everyone. In fact, without rules of engagement - which are not provided - this app can do more harm than help in a marriage which is already struggling.  In a general way, are we mindful of how something which might be good in one situation would be harmful in another? View all quotes and references here: htt...

Disrespect is rampant in our secular culture, and the majority of Catholic wives unfortunately struggle with respect just as much as everyone else. View all quotes and references here: https://bit.ly/twtw-posts-s01-ep14

Advent is coming! Are you doing anything extra special to prepare for the birth of Our Lord? View all quotes and references here: https://bit.ly/twtw-s01-ep013

God hard-wired men and women differently. Are we aware of how this works to our advantage? View all quotes and references here: https://bit.ly/twtw-s01-ep012

Welcome to our October 2021 End-of-the-Month Media Spotlight, which is much 'lighter' in many ways than the previous two...   This month's spotlight is on Lisbeth Burger's autobiographical All for the Love of Mothers , alternatively titled for the softcover version as Memoirs of a Midwife. This book is easily found on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Ebay, and other book sale sites. * *...

Even though the Lord of the Rings was first published in the 1950s, the character and struggles of many modern women are captured in the character of Éowyn, Shieldmaiden of Rohan. View all quotes and references here: https://bit.ly/twtw-posts-s01-ep11

When Christ says, “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,” are there burdens which He cannot alleviate? View all quotes and references here: https://bit.ly/twtw-posts-s01-ep10

If you were ever to leave the thought of God, you would cease to exist. What can we do to grasp more fully and live more intentionally the truth that because HE IS, we have, at every moment, a reason to rejoice? View all quotes and references here: https://bit.ly/twtw-s01-ep009

It’s one thing to anticipate the things that drain us of joy; what do we do when faced with the unexpected? How much more disciplined we need to be in the face of the unexpected versus what we can anticipate and predict! View all quotes and references here: https://bit.ly/twtw-posts-s01-ep08

Welcome to our September 2021 End-of-the-Month Media Spotlight! in which we establish that the use of Windows 95 sound effects will be a standard...   This month's spotlight is on Dietrich von Hildebrand's Marriage: The Mystery of Faithful Love . Listen for our reasons for recommending this book, not just for married couples, but for grade schoolers and young adults also! Learning to think...

This week, we begin diving into practical methods of developing a discipline of joy. View all quotes and references here: rb.gy/d7r8xv

If we really understand just how much God’s grace is needed by each and every one of us to do anything good, why are we so undisciplined about responding to it and reaching for it? View all quotes here: rb.gy/amxlw2

In the Act of Contrition, we state our firm intention to “sin no more, and to avoid near occasions of sin.” Realistically, can we do this? View all quotes and references here: rb.gy/kssjw7

Welcome to our first End-of-the-Month Media Spotlight! in which we use Windows 95 sound effects for good measure.  This month's spotlight: Impossible Marriages Redeemed , edited by Leila Miller, foreword by Philip F. Lawler In the first half, we cover why we think that struggling couples solid couples priests and everyone else! should read this book. In the second half, we review seven ways to...

What does the Church actually teach about obedience to our husband, especially when he is falling short in small ways or objectively failing in big ones? View all quotes and references here: rb.gy/bhvvev

How do our shortcomings and serious failings play into the reality of being “one flesh” in the Sacrament of Matrimony? View all quotes and references here: rb.gy/wijbit

One of my favorite lines from one of my favorite books reads, “You are not a smaller, less-hairy man,” and every time I read that, I think, “Amen to that, sista’!” But then, what exactly did God have in mind when He created Woman? View all quotes and references here: patreon.com/posts/s01e02-woman-of-107079057

This world is in desperate need of the holy influence of saintly wives. Do you have the strength of will to be one of them? What does the Church teach about our priorities as wives, and is this teaching difficult to embrace? View all quotes and references here: rb.gy/kyr4ez