The Will to Wife

Too often immature readership renders a good marriage book useless. What does mature readership look like?

Touching on two paragraphs from this document, and issuing a new invitation to our listeners!

Reading and discussing Canons 15 and 16 from the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD. 

Reading and discussing Canon 3 from the first Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. 

What's next on The Will to Wife Podcast?

“Disorder in the society is a result of disorder in the family.” - St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Requiescat in pace, Papa Benny

Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei...

We missed a step! Thank you to a kind and forgiving listener for bringing this to our attention. 

Practical recommendations for embracing and supporting your husband’s headship.

In your marriage, are you following in Eve's footsteps?

"Healing" in marriage: What it should mean, and what it cannot be. 

We're back with our fourth and FINAL installment of our interview with Carla, our mentor and friend found on Instagram @DontBecomeRoommates1989. Make sure you started from part one released at the beginning of this month! 

Here we are with part THREE of our interview with CarlaD, our mentor behind the Instagram handle, @DontBecomeRoommates1989! Make sure to listen to Parts One and Two first!

And we are BACK with the second part of an interview with CarlaD, our mentor behind the Instagram handle, @DontBecomeRoommates1989! Make sure to listen to Part One first, released last Sunday!

Today we are BLESSED to be able to share with you the first part of an interview with CarlaD, the delightful and beautifully inspirational example of wife-ing behind the Instagram handle, @DontBecomeRoommates1989! 

Welcome to our July 2022 End-of-the-Month Media Spotlight! This month's spotlight is a TRIPLE spotlight, featuring...

• The Empowered Wife by Laura Doyle
• Fascinating Womanhood by Helen Andelin (NOT the version "updated" by her daughter)
• and a special support group for Catholic wives!

Where is the Eucharist in our Domestic Church?

What role might our personal beauty have in the work of evangelization?

If optimal health is beautiful and attractive, is failing health automatically ugly and repulsive?

When we speak of "beauty," we need first to have a discussion about health. What does "health" mean to a Catholic wife striving for sainthood?

Welcome to our June 2022 End-of-the-Month Media Spotlight! This month's spotlight is on Fr. Chad Ripperger's Deliverance Prayers For Use By the Laity, available on Amazon.*

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If "beauty will save the world," what can a wife's beauty do for her family?

Do you feel like the Discipline of Joy is about letting people walk all over you?

In which we attempt to use Marvel's Defenders as an evangelization tool... 

What is it that a woman might find so terrifying about developing a discipline of joy, and why?

It is so easy to de-motivate our husbands with our thoughtless, knee-jerk responses to his attempts to serve. 

What does an entitlement mentality and attitude reveal about the relationship someone has with God?

Imaging God’s immanence begins with detaching from those outcomes which are not [entirely] in our control.

Welcome to our April 2022 End-of-the-Month Media Spotlight! This month's spotlight is on Shaunti Feldhahn's For Women Only, available on Amazon in all formats including electronic, and also on Audible.*

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Let’s launch into this Easter Season by learning the next part to the Discipline of Joy!

Many women who are unhappy in their marriages claim to be martyrs. But do they really know what a martyr is?

Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7

Welcome to our March 2022 End-of-the-Month Media Spotlight! This month's spotlight is on Dr. Laura Schlessinger's The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands, available on Amazon in all formats including electronic, and also on Audible.*

*I am not an affiliate of Amazon or Audible. I receive no commission or incentive for sharing this resource.

The devil is a brilliant tactician. What’s your game plan for conquering the temptation to anger?

The attack on your husband commonly comes on three fronts; do YOU constitute a fourth front of attack, or does your husband know that you're on his side?

It’s never too late to start moving towards a more biblical model of marriage.

Welcome to our February 2022 End-of-the-Month Media Spotlight! This month's spotlight is on Darren Hardy's The Compound Effect, available on Amazon and also on Audible.*

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Saints like Gianna Beretta Molla and Zélie Martin give us evidence that it is perfectly possible for a working woman to achieve sainthood. How would this have been accomplished in a manner which is not contrary to the order established by God?

The one where we talk about money, money, money. There’s a right and respectful way to ask your husband for money, did you know?

Stop thinking that marriage is “complicated.” Marriage is the most important work of your life, and any work worth doing requires finesse.

What is a wife’s role in enabling her husband to grow into his God-given headship?

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?

Are you your husband’s safe place to land?

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.

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.