Learning To Weather The Resistance In Teen Parenting
During the teen years, parents are usually met with more opposition than ever before, and if we are not careful, this resistance can turn into full-blown rebellion.
The Lord Is My Banner – Devotional
Susan Daniel’s devotional reminds us all to seek God for all the challenges we face and to praise Him for all that he has done and continues to do for us.
10 Ways to Honour, Love & Respect Your Husband
By connecting with your husband in a way that honours, loves and respects your husband you show him that his feelings matter.
5 Ways To Nurture Connection with your Spouse
Relationships require intentional demonstrations of love for creating a strong connection from the quality time spent together as a couple.
Overcoming Obstacles To Prayer
Find out how to remove obstacles that get in the way of your prayer time. Get back on track no matter how busy your life is.
Marriage in Crisis
Men and Women are very different as if from two different planets. Unresolved issues can lead to major conflict and crisis within the marriage. Below is some sound advice on what we can do to get our marriage back on track. Common Roots In order to resolve any crisis in your marriage, you must examine…
The Journey Towards Self Awareness
Self-awareness plays a key role in building good relationships by allowing us to know our strengths, our weaknesses, what we like, what we dislike and where our boundaries are. Self-awareness also enables us to relate to others. In the ‘The Journey Towards Self Awareness‘ author Ben Dainton carefully maps out a time where he experienced…
Tips for Loving Yourself After A Relationship Break Up
Married couples enter relationships hoping it will last a lifetime. We work hard at establishing a genuine connection built on trust and unconditional love. Then suddenly it happens, he or she announces that they’re leaving and we just don’t know why or what we’ve done wrong. Feelings of powerlessness and rejection begin to overwhelm us…
What Clean Fighting Is Like So You Can Both Win
There are healthy and productive ways to argue that can be constructive towards the relationship if done carefully with love while maintaining a level of respect towards one another. 1.Pray for your spouse The bible makes it clear that we need to pray for those we are in conflict with. “You have heard that it…
Drugs And The Addict: A Destructive Relationship
“There’s a phrase, “the elephant in the living room”, which purports to describe what it’s like to live with a drug addict, an alcoholic, an abuser. People outside such relationships will sometimes ask, “How could you let such a business go on for so many years? Didn’t you see the elephant in the living room?”…
What If I’m Diagnosed With A Mental Illness?
With all the promotion and education going around, a lot of us have a basic understanding of what mental illness is, though unless we have experienced it; it is generally on a factual basis. This is good, we need to know facts, and facts are powerful. Though what does it mean if I am diagnosed…
12 Steps To Making Marriages Go The Distance
Psychologist Harriet Lerner Ph.D. provides her professional advice in an article outlining 12 basic steps that we can take to help our marriages to go the distance. From The Huffington Post. 12 Simple Steps For A Sustainable Marriage 1. Respect Differences. We all view reality through different filters depending on our culture, gender, birth order,…
A Window Into Widowhood and Loss (Part 1 of 2)
A story about losing a life partner and father of my children, to cancer. When you make the decision to get married at the age of 29, you are taking the first step on the journey of the rest of your life. You are in love, you are happy beyond measure. You have a wonderful…
