Stepfather, What Do Your Kids Need?
You cannot afford to be a vanishing father to your biological children.
You cannot afford to be a vanishing father to your biological children.
Accepting your differences will help you mature beyond the downsides of your personalities.
Is your marriage in a “death spiral”? That’s how Moe and Paige Becnel describe the first four years of their blended-family marriage. Joining the Becnels is blended family expert, Ron Deal.
Regardless of how we arrived in our unequally yoked marriage, we are part of God’s plans and our spiritually mismatched homes are vital to His purposes.
It’s common for stepfamily kids to spend weeks at a nonresidential parent’s home during the summer. Here are some tips for managing the challenges.
Do you show your spouse grace? Tim and Darcy know what it means to give and receive grace, and share some grace moments from their own marriage.
My husband and I couldn’t stand one another.
Carolyn Weber tells how a difficult labor and delivery lead her to death’s door and how God sustained her through that trauma she calls the crucible moment in her marriage.
A testimony from I Still Do™.
A testimony from I Still Do™.
Every marriage has a crisis year. For Dennis and Barbara Rainey, that year was 1976. Hear a story of trial and triumph as Dennis Rainey details how God took him through the valley of suffering.
A recent study suggests that cohabiting couples do not face a greater risk of divorce after they marry. But the whole picture is a bit more complicated.
Brad tells how his self-obsession led to his failed marriage, but it wasn’t until a major infection landed him in the hospital that his heart began to turn and he experienced God in a powerful way.
Dineen Miller and Lynn Donovan tell how they’ve handled the expectations with unbelieving husbands and talk about other areas in their marriage where they share common ground with their husbands.
Lynn Donovan and Dineen Miller, married to men who don’t share their faith, tell how they wound up in a spiritually mismatched marriage.
Dr. Gary Chapman says unless we learn to move past our failures with genuine forgiveness and reconciliation, our marriages will never be everything God intends them to be.
Issues for second-half stepfamilies to consider.
If we don’t tell couples that no marriage is too broken, how will they know?