When Your Spouse Has a Different Stress Response
As a married couple, you likely each have a different stress response. How can you leverage relationship stress to draw you together as a team?
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Authors Elyse Fitzpatrick and Eric Schumacher talk about the role of women in the church. Fitzpatrick reminds us that women typically comprise 50% or more of most congregations and to overlook their insights and spiritual giftings is to miss a great blessing.
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When Your Spouse Faces a Layoff: 5 Ways to Help
When your spouse faces a layoff, hold back on the cliché, this-is-what-you-should-do responses. Instead, here are five ways to help.
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FamilyLife CEO Chris Herndon and his wife, Mary, remember God’s goodness as they reflect on Mary’s diagnosis of a brain tumor in 2017. Almost a year later, their son, Charlie, was diagnosed with MRSA, a type of staph infection that is untreatable by many types of antibiotics. Hear the story of God’s faithfulness to this family.
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Dave Harvey believes that when young adults leave home, it reveals what a couple has built throughout their marriage. Harvey reminds couples to get help if needed and stir up the fires that once were flames.
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When your spouse is in a season of suffering, how do you help them? Dave Harvey reminds us that how we respond to suffering says a lot about our understanding of marriage.
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Dave Harvey talks about the circles of influence that make up each one of us. Everyone has a context, and once a husband or wife understands what their spouse’s context is, they’ll love and understand each other better.
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Is Social Distancing Causing Distance in Your Marriage?
Quarantines, social distancing and health hypervigilance have us out of our routines and comfort zones, causing a host of emotions erupting in marriage.
Losing a Spouse is for Life
There are many lessons I’ve gathered on the journey of grief, and one of them is this: The heartache of losing a spouse lasts a lifetime.
Whatever Bad Happens, I Choose Us
You can’t know everything that’s going to happen in marriage, but you can decide ahead of time how to handle it with the promise in your vows: I choose us.
Sick and Tired? Don’t Take It Out on Your Spouse
If absence makes the heart grow fonder, being sick and tired together sucks the fondness right out. But this quarantine means we’re stuck in this together.
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Rob and Gina Flood talk about the communication skills they learned that turned their isolated marriage into a relationship of true oneness.
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Rob and Gina Flood realized early on that communication wasn’t about winning or losing, but about building up or tearing down. Together they share five communication tools that helped transform their marriage.
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Rob and Gina Flood were surprised that their honeymoon was as difficult as it was. Eventually, they realized their bad communication habits were short circuiting healthy dialogue. Learn what they did to turn things around.
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How do I get my spouse to do it my way?
Often, we ask ourselves “How do I get my spouse to do things my way?” Yet arguments about the “right way” are rarely about what they seem.
10 Date Night In Ideas for When You Can’t Go Out
Any semblance of date night just got drop-kicked out the door. But with a little commitment you can still make time together. 10 date-ins get you started.
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What does the Bible mean when it calls women “the weaker vessel”? Author Mary Kassian explains that women are more vulnerable to being abused and hurt. Kassian gives women practical advice for engaging their emotions in a God-honoring way.
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Mary Kassian tells women that if they want to be strong in the Lord, stay away from the creeps. Creeps can be anything from bad boys to bad attitudes, and the biggest creep of all-Satan.
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