People who have been staunchly committed to faith and family fall into trouble when they don’t grow with their spouse. We need to continually “update” our knowledge about our husband or wife.
Communication Styles
Regardless of your wife’s emotional temperature, you can choose to respond to her in a way that creates a warm, loving atmosphere. The call to cherish means you engage when you’d rather shrink back.
LeRoy and Kimberly Wagner have suggestions for husbands or wives who attempt to control their spouse. The cycle is fueled by three issues: pride, ingratitude and fear.
Good communication is the lifeblood of a successful marriage, so when spouses stop talking at a deep level, their marriages slowly die. A marriage will only be as good as a couple’s communication.
“I’ve come to realize, through my own experience as well as in conversation with friends, that marriage works best when my husband and I labor in tandem.” — Yvette Maher
Tips for blending stepfamilies.
Get over your need for your step kids to like you.
Learn how to determine what your child really wants when your kid says he or she wants to live with the other parent.
Can struggling relationships be reborn? The answer is yes if couples become aware of the nature of love and learn how to express it in a language their mate can understand.
Find tangible ways to let your teens know how you pray for them.
Do you feel like walls are being put up between you and your teen. Try these foundational ways to better connect and develop effective family communication.
Sex is a wonderful gift given by God to a married couple as a means of experiencing a sacred union.
Sex is a wonderful gift given by God to a married couple as a means of experiencing a sacred union.
When you look at marriage from a new perspective, you can see the miracle of a spouse who knows you inside and out, yet still loves you. You can view imperfections as a priceless exhibition of God’s grace.
We discover the primary love language of our spouse, and we choose to speak it whether or not it is natural for us. Love is a choice.
Chrystal Evans Hurst learned that acknowledging the little things her husband does, telling him that he brings her joy, or speaking well of him strengthens their relationship and builds his confidence.
While similar in many respects to stepparenting through divorce and remarriage, parenting a child whose biological parent has died carries its own distinctives.
Do you find that holiday planning drives you and your spouse apart? Add a little joy to your Christmas season by getting organized together.
If you look at a waffle, you see a collection of boxes all separate from each other. That is typically how a man processes life. His thinking is divided into boxes that have room for only one issue.
For most women, every thought and issue is connected to every other thought and issue in some way. Life is much more of a process for women than it is for men.
