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8. W. Bradford Wilcox, Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 158.

9. Ibid., 162–63.

10. Ibid., 162–63.

11. Ibid., 199–200.

12. W. Bradford Wilcox, “Religion and the Domestication of Men.” Contexts: Understanding People in Their Social Worlds 5 (2006): 42–46

13. Wilcox, Soft Patriarchs, 182.

14. Ibid., 195.

15. Ibid., 196; “Religion and the Domestication of Men,” 42–46; Nicholas H. Wolfinger and W. Bradford Wilcox, “Happily Ever After? Religion, Marital Status, Gender, and Relationship Quality in Urban Families,” Social Forces 86 (2008): 1311–37, http://www.fcs.utah.edu/~wolfinger/SFfinal.pdf.

16. Wolfinger and Wilcox, “Happily Ever After? 1311–37.

17. Ibid.

18. Wilcox, Soft Patriarchs, 178.

19. Edward O. Laumann et al., The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 501.

20. Vaughn R. A. Call and Tim B. Heaton, “Religious Influence on Marital Stability,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 36, no. 3 (September 1997): 386–87, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1387856.

21. Wolfinger and Wilcox, “Happily Ever After? 1311–37.

22. Tim B. Heaton and Edith L. Pratt, “The Effects of Religious Homogamy on Marital Satisfaction and Stability,” Journal of Family Issues 11, no. 2 (June 1990): 191–207, doi: 10.1177/019251390011002005.

23. Call and Heaton, “Religious Influence on Marital Stability,” 382–92.

24. Laumann et al., 502.

25. Wilcox and Nock, “What’s Love Got to Do with It? 1321–45.

26. Ibid.

27. Ibid.

28. Christopher G. Ellison, Amy M. Burdette, and W. Bradford Wilcox, “The Couple That Prays Together: Race and Ethnicity, Religion, and Relationship Quality Among Working-Age Adults,” Journal of Marriage and Family 72 (August 2010): 963–75.

29. Schools like Reformed Theological Seminary and Covenant Theological Seminary have many of their very expensive graduate-level classes online for free to download. Also, all of my [Mark’s] sermons are free in audio and video format at www.MarsHill.com.

Chapter 4

1. For further reading on the theological underpinnings of these doctrines, please read John Piper and Wayne Grudem, Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2006; it is also available for free online at http://www.cbmw.org/rbmw/); Andreas J. Kostenberger and David W. Jones, God, Marriage, and Family (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010); and Wayne Grudem, Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth: An Analysis of More Than 100 Disputed Questions (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 2004).

2. Wendy Virgo, Influential Women (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2009), 201.

3. Paul David Tripp, War of Words (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2000), 71.

4. Edward T. Welch, When People Are Big and God Is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man (Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R Publishing, 1997), 14.

5. For more on this issue, Running Scared by Edward T. Welch (Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, 2007) is very helpful, and we borrow many ideas from him in this portion of the chapter.

6. Raymond C. Ortlund Jr., “Male-Female Equality and Male Headship,” in Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism, eds. John Piper and Wayne Grudem (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2006), 95.

7. Ibid., 105.

8. John 5:19.

9. John 5:30.

10. Patrick Erwin, “Seven Signs You Have a Work Spouse,” CNN Living, November 10, 2008, http://articles.cnn.com/2008-11-10/living/cb.seven.signs.work.spouse_1_spouse-worker-stress?_s=PM:LIVING.

11. “Will an Office ‘Romance’ Make You More Successful?” CNNMoney.com, January 27, 2006, http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/27/news/funny/office_marriage/index.htm?cnn=yes; Irene S. Levine, “The Work Spouse: Indispensable Friend or Playing with Fire?” Psychology Today, December 16, 2010, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-friendship-doctor/201012/the-work-spouse-indispensable-friend-or-playing-fire.

Chapter 5

1. John Gottman and Nan Silver, The Seven