Your baby has graduated, leaving you an empty nester. But how do you grow your relationship with them while encouraging their independence?
Does God have instructions for grandparents? Mary Larmoyeux, Nancy Downing, Josh Mulvihill, and Anne Dierks share scriptural examples and practical tips for being godly, intentional grandparents.
Author Jill Savage talks frankly about the challenges she's faced in the empty nest, including finding out that her son is gay. While they disagree with his current lifestyle, they continue to love him.
How's your marriage since the kids left home? Jill Savage knows that a couple's failure to connect can lead to isolation. Savage shares some valleys she and her husband faced as empty nesters and tells what's kept them together.
Author Jill Savage talks about the freedom, and the challenges, of the empty nest. Savage remembers being surprised at how hard it really was to adjust to a quiet house. Hear some sound advice from a mom who's been there.
I’ve always thought there was some marital finish line protecting your marriage on the other side. But few people warn you about gray divorce.
How could we possibly think retirement, changing health, and decline ahead wouldn't have surprises and challenges like our 40+ years of marriage?
Does God have instructions for grandparents? Mary Larmoyeux, Nancy Downing, Josh Mulvihill and Anne Dierks share scriptural examples, and practical tips for being godly, intentional grandparents.
All of us will have to deal with aging parents. Jim Stroud gives some wise tips for rightly assessing an aging parent's need for assisted living.
Jim Stroud tells how he looked at elder care options for his father, and realized that available facilities wouldn't meet his father's level of need. Stroud set out to change that for his father and others.
Barbara Rainey's favorite holiday is Thanksgiving Day. Find out how she impressed gratitude on her children growing up. She'll also give a glimpse into how how she's processing transitions in her own life.
How should a Christian approach the stage of life that follows the working years? Kay Marshall Strom, Dennis Rainey, Howard Hendricks, and Steve Sanford offer perspectives based on Scripture.
Barbara Rainey and Susan Yates give some helpful suggestions for embracing the empty nest stage of life.
Barbara Rainey and Susan Yates recall how they felt when they first entered this confusing, liberating, and emotion-packed stage of life called the empty nest.
I wouldn’t trade our empty nest years for the relationship we had in our youth for anything.
When your kids leave the home, you are forced to consider your marriage relationship in a new light.
As we've moved through this new season of our lives, we've realized that God has something great planned for our future together.
A couple can either move toward the death of their relationship, or look forward to what this new season of marriage has to offer.
When you define your identity vertically, you will be able to stand even when the things around you are passing away.
The older we grow, the more our bodies deteriorate. And that's not necessarily bad.
Too many men over 55 think their best days are behind them. It’s time to resurrect the noble mantle of “patriarch.”
I learned more than rhythm while taking dancing lessons with my husband.
Part of our passion is encouraging couples to determine how God can use them after their children leave the nest.
Adjusting to a new reality can be an especially difficult task.
When the kids leave home you become a new kind of parent.
Marriages, like tides, ebb and flow.
As you look back on your parenting, do you often feel a twinge of regret?
Barbara Rainey and Susan Yates share their personal experiences about entering the empty nest.
You’ve longed for the day when the house would be peaceful again and the kids would finally be grown and on their own.
Looking for something to do after your retire?