🎬 Videos(9)
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What was it like to leave Evangelical Christianity as a married couple?
Genetically Modified Skeptic
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RfRx - Thriving in a Mixed Secular/Religious Relationship with Rebecca Williams, LMFT
Recovering from Religion
Have you walked away from your faith and your spouse hasn't? Are you struggling to find common ground? How can you manage this difference in your marriage? Can you make your marriage work? This week we'll be navigating through these tough questions and more. Join us as we talk with Rebecca Williams and provide you with some helpful tools on how to manage Mixed Secular/Religious Relationships.
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Letter to a Christian Spouse
TheThinkingAtheist
Full Thinking Atheist Podcast A former Christian informs his wife that he's now an atheist. She threatens to divorce him. Seth Andrews has a short message for her, and for anyone who finds himself or herself "unequally yoked" with a non-believer.
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Polyamory | Leon Feingold
TEDxBushwick
Polyamorous relationships consist of individuals of multi-partner relationships and families. Leon offers an insight through his journey in finding polyamory as the means to creating intimate, valuable relationships with multiple people. Through his journey and explanation, Leon debunks myths and presents the values of polyamory. Co-Founder and former President of Open Love NY, Leon Feingold has become a polyamory activist on a national scope. He coauthors "Poly Wanna Answer?" a monthly polyamorous relationship advice column, and has discussed polyamory on The View, Huffington Post, PolyInTheMedia, Jezebel, and other media, plus the HBO movie "Americans in Bed". In 2014 he helped launch New York's first openly polyamorous residence, here in Bushwick.
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RfRx - When Your Partner Leaves God with Sherrie D'Souza
Recovering from Religion
What happens when one partner doesn't believe? What happens when the foundation of your relationship is no longer the foundation? Sherrie D'Souza will share her experiences and insights gained from navigating different faiths in a marriage relationship. And - spoiler alert! - returning co-host Sacha D'Souza will be joining the conversation to share his perspective, as well. For tonight's episode we are going to be hearing from our very own Sherrie D'Souza who is an RfR Board member, chair for RfR Australia, international development director for RfR, wife to co-host Sacha D'Souza and former Jehovah's Witness.
📄 Articles(11)
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Love Nudge
5 Love Languages
A playful, engaging tool that helps couples experience love more deeply.
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Couples Coach
US Department of Veterans Affairs
Couples Coach is designed for partners who want to improve their relationship and explore new ways to connect. The app takes users through five levels of expert-written education and engaging behavioral exercises informed by science. Popular exercises like Using I Messages and Active Listening are brought to life in a dynamic and interactive format. Couples Coach pairs up partners as they explore assessments and share results, learn about different approaches to common relationship issues and review available resources in their communities. It also includes comprehensive relationship information for couples living with PTSD. Although Couples Coach can help improve communication and satisfaction in your relationship, it isn't a replacement for face-to-face couples counseling. The app features a couples counseling locator for finding a professional counselor along with several other local and national resources. Learn more about how to find a good couples therapist and take your relationship to the next level.
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Whose Pain is it? The Fallacy of Owning Others' Pain
Darrel Ray, Ed.D
Beliefs cause pain when they do not reflect reality. To the extent that a belief is in conflict with the way the world works, it will cause problems and often pain.
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Thriving in a Mixed Secular/Religious Relationship: RfRx talk with Rebecca Williams, LMFT
Recovering from Religion
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Till Death Do Us Part - Interfaith Marriage and Marriage Beyond Faith
Real Life Beyond Faith
This is a blog article about interfaith marriage and marriage after leaving religion. It explores the questions many people face when one or both people in a marriage lose their faith.
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For Spouses and Partners: Understanding Your Secular Significant Other
Openly Secular
This source is intended to help religious spouses and partners understand what secular people face in a relationship, and how they can be open and accepting of their secular partner.
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Foundations of a Mixed Belief Relationship Mini Course
Inland Empire Couples Counseling
This mini course will teach you the most important skill for helping your interfaith or mixed secular / religious relationship thrive.
📚 Books(8)
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In Faith and In Doubt: How religious believers and nonbelievers can create strong marriages and loving families
Dale McGowan
This book by Dale McGowen helps partners navigate the complexities of their situation while celebrating the extraordinary richness it affords their relationship, their children, and those around them.
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Couples, Gender, and Power: Creating Change in Intimate Relationships
Carmen Knudson-Martin, Anne Rankin Mahoney
A comprehensive, critical, empirical, and practical compilation of investigations about how diverse couples are trying to implement change and pursue equality in their relationships.
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The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work
Terrence Real
In this revolutionary book, Real shows women how to master the new rules of twenty-first-century marriage by offering them a set of effective tools with which they can create the truly intimate relationship that they desire and deserve. He identifies five non-starters to avoid and shares practical strategies for bringing honesty, passion, and joy back to even the most difficult relationship. Using his experience helping thousands of couples shift from despair to profound emotional closeness, Real guides you through the process of relationship repair with exercises that you can do alone or with your partner.
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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
John Gottman PhD
Straightforward yet profound, these principles teach partners new approaches for resolving conflicts, creating new common ground, and achieving greater levels of intimacy. Gottman offers strategies and resources to help couples collaborate more effectively to resolve any problem, whether dealing with issues related to sex, money, religion, work, family, or anything else.
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Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
John M. Gottman, Douglas Carlton Abrams
Navigating the challenges of long-term commitment takes effort--and it just got simpler, with this empowering, step-by-step guide to communicating about the things that matter most to you and your partner. Drawing on forty years of research from their world-famous Love Lab, Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman invite couples on eight fun, easy, and profoundly rewarding dates, each one focused on a make-or-break issue: trust, conflict, sex, money, family, adventure, spirituality, and dreams.
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Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Dr. Sue Johnson EdD
The message of Hold Me Tight is simple: Forget about learning how to argue better, analyzing your early childhood, making grand romantic gestures, or experimenting with new sexual positions. Instead, get to the emotional underpinnings of your relationship by recognizing that you are emotionally attached to and dependent on your partner in much the same way that a child is on a parent for nurturing, soothing, and protection. Dr. Johnson teaches that the way to enhance or save a relationship is to be open, attuned, and responsive to each other and to reestablish emotional connection.
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What Makes Love Last?: How to Build Trust and Avoid Betrayal
John M. Gottman, Nan Silver
A world-renowned relationship expert shares his research about love and what it takes to develop a trustful, intimate, and emotionally fulfilling bond. In this insightful book, celebrated research psychologist and couples counselor John Gottman plumbs the mysteries of love and shares the results of his famous "Love Lab": Where does love come from? Why does some love last, and why does some fade? And how can we keep it alive? Based on laboratory findings, this book shows readers how to identify signs, behaviors, and attitudes that indicate a fraying relationship and provides strategies for repairing what may seem lost or broken.
🎙️ Podcasts(4)
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Surviving Spiritual Abuse and Suicidality as BYU-Idaho Faculty & Non-Believing Spouse – Ryan & Holly Nielsen
Mormon Stories
For today's Mormon Stories Podcast episode we interview Ryan Nielsen and Holly Parson Nielsen, who were both raised as devout Mormons in Rexburg, Idaho. After marriage, Ryan worked as full-time BYU...
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Multiamory Podcast
We believe in looking to the future of relationships, not maintaining the status quo of the past. We value ethics over tradition, and we believe that a healthy world is one where everybody has agency in their relationships.
🏢 Organizations(1)
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Street Epistemology
Street Epistemology is a conversational tool that helps people reflect on the reliability of the methods used to arrive at their deeply-held beliefs.
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- Dating
- Demographic Groups