Tag: empty nest

Whether you are sending a child to college, or you are planning a wedding, releasing children can be difficult. Barbara Rainey, Susan Yates, and Bruce Johnston share how they managed this pivotal transition.

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.

What’s the best way to nurture a healthy relationship with your grown children? Jim Burns encourages parents to continue to show their love and support to their grown children even if there have been years of distance between you.

At what point do you cut your children off financially? Jim Burns cautions parents not to enable their adult children by continually giving them money or bailing them out. Burns also answers challenging questions about adult kids visiting with their significant others.

Jim Burns coaches parents of adult children on how to keep the relational ties open once their young adults leave home. He shares what to do if adult children come back home temporarily, and tells how he’s living this out with his own daughter.

Crawford and Karen Loritts remind listeners that all marriages have storms, but those storms don’t have to be the end of hope to those who are anchored in Christ.

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.

God has a divine purpose in mind when He calls us to be parents. After years of parenting, Dennis Rainey realized that the children helped him finish growing up.

It is impossible to experience marriage as God designed it without being liberal and lavish in forgiveness. Dennis Rainey shares more lessons he’s learned in over 40 years of marriage.

In the first few years of his marriage Dennis Rainey made a lot of “rookie errors”. Today he’s passing along the forty lessons he learned to help others avoid making the same errors.

Looking for something to do after your retire?

God can use you, no matter what your age.

Retirement: go ahead, go back, or go away?

His mid-40’s brought unrest for Bob Buford—until he radically changed his life’s direction.