One Change Makes a Difference
If there were one thing you could change that would make your marriage richer and more connected daily, what might it be? Usually, when speaking with someone, the conversation quickly…
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Your Flirtation Experiment
I’m not clear, exactly, how it happened, but slowly, over the last year or more, Matt and I fell out of our healthier evening habits of reading books and turning…
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5 Things Your Husband Wants to Hear You Say
Words (kind or unkind) have a tremendous impact on the emotional temperature of our marriages. Speaking words of affirmation toward my husband did not come naturally to me. Such phrases…
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5 Things Your Wife Wants to Hear You Say
Words (kind or unkind) have a tremendous impact on the emotional temperature of our marriages. Your wife wants to know what you think, but she especially wants to know what…
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Communicating About Sex: Wives, Do You Have a Fantasy?
Do you have a fantasy? Or a few? Or many, maybe? Would it surprise you that most people do? Men and women alike have sexual fantasies. Have you ever felt…
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Are You Good at Communicating? Communication 101
Sometimes I don’t want to talk to or listen to my wife. Even though we’ve been married since 2001 and I’ve served as a marriage pastor since 2006, I admit…
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Learning To Understand Your Wife Through Prayer
My wife and I met with a couple for pre-marriage counseling. The man asked, “How can I be an expert on women?” I said, “Only God can do that. Just…
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Why Good Listeners Make Better Spouses: The Art of Sacred Listening
God demonstrated the power of words by speaking the universe into existence ex nihilo—making something from nothing. He set humanity apart from all other created beings by giving us the…
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How Our Perceptions Affect Conflict in Marriage
Nobel Peace Prize winner and Buddhist Monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, stated this during an interview with talk show host Oprah Winfrey: “Fear, anger, and despair are born on the grounds…
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Communication Goals: God, Spouse, Friends
I can be so all-or-nothing with prayer. I think I have to be in full monastic mode or praying for hours on end to do it “right,” and that makes…
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