Has your spouse checked out of the marriage, yet still in the marriage? Over the last 11 years of helping couples as a pastoral care counselor and a relationship coach, I have noticed an interesting scenario in a number of troubled marriages. Though both parties are still at home,
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Question: How Will Divorce Affect My Children
Marriage is the axle to which every other spoke in our society and church are connected. When it is broken, the rest of the wheel will cease to turn. One of the major spokes affected by a difficult marriage is that of parenting.
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In 1903, the divorce rate was such that only 1 out of 100 marriages ended in divorce. In 2003, that rate increased to 53% (source: Dr. Carl Broggi, sermon on family issues). Though there are a myriad of reasons as to why this has transpired,
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Why is divorce painful and so demanding on the human body and mind? Why is it so emotionally and physically costly? Why is it that of all the things that a person can experience, divorce is one of the most exhausting processes that a person can go through?
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The secret to having a happy marriage is to realize that marriage alone cannot make you happy. Take a look at this excerpt from chapter one of our marriage book, How to Fight for Your Marriage Without Fighting with One Another, to learn how to truly have a happy marriage.
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Ever wonder why marriages fail or start to go bad? I believe that to find the answer you must go back to the early days of a relationship.
In the early stages of a romantic relationship, couples can act according to how they feel. This is because both see the good,
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Husbands are better than they realize at training their wives, yet this training is of a different sort as it takes little or no effort to accomplish.
When I was young, my mother would ask me to clean my room,
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In many ways, I had a bad first year of marriage. My wife was like a wilted flower, and I had sucked the life right out of her through my temper tantrums, late night lectures, and inconsistent behavior. To make matters worse, I was an assistant pastor of a church,
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