How to Have a Great Valentine’s Day: Connect, Don’t Expect
Valentine’s Day is a day that evokes a variety of emotions. Some look forward to it with excitement about celebrating their love. Others dread it because they are alone and…
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Keeping the Romance Alive through Intentional Connection
Romancing your partner is more than bringing pleasure. It’s sharing intimacy; it’s pursuing another in emotional, physical, and spiritual ways. It’s learning about the other. It’s caring for them. It’s…
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What Do You Want Your Change to Look Like?
My husband and I got divorced before we got married. Several months into our first engagement, he abruptly severed the relationship and refused to communicate—crushing any hope of reconciliation. …
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Are You Dealing with the Pain of Marital Separation? 7 Ways to Cope
Sadness. Anger. Fear. Loneliness. Despair. Depression. Being separated from your spouse sinks you into emotional quicksand. Your emotions will paralyze you if you let them. Instead of making progress, you’ll…
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How Do You Resolve Conflict?
Like most young couples on their wedding day, we were starry-eyed lovers who had not a care in the world. Elated to begin our life together, we had no doubt…
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Marriage and Illness: How to Find Your Way By Learning to Grieve Together
“I just don’t understand why you can’t clean the garage,” Kevin declares one afternoon. He’s in a mood. We both are. I’m experiencing a bad “flare up.” That’s what we…
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When God Says No: Applying Romans 8:28 to Relationships
I met Lynna during my freshman year in college. We became friends and began to spend time together. We liked each other. I asked her on a date the next year.…
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Don’t Drag Unforgiveness into the New Year
“So let us throw off everything that stands in our way. Let us throw off any sin that holds on to us so tightly. Let us keep on running the…
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The Redemptive Power of Marriage: A Christmas Story
Over two thousand years ago, you could not find a position much lower than a poor, Jewish girl. Under Roman occupation, a girl like Mary had little political, economic, or…
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Bah! to Christmas Memories
Chuck and I met on November 19, 1983 in Dearborn, Michigan—a suburb due west of Detroit. It was a blind date arranged by mutual friends and I was blind with…
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