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What Can Genesis Teach a Wife about How to Encourage the Struggling Businessman?

What Can Genesis Teach a Wife about How to Encourage the Struggling Businessman?

It’s amazing how often our search for answers to conflicts and situations we are dealing with in the twenty-first century ends up taking us back to the beginning of Genesis.

Why She Shares, and What He Hears

Why She Shares, and What He Hears

When a wife dares to share her hurt and negative feelings with her husband, she does so hoping he will humbly apologize and make efforts to do things more lovingly next time. Her goal in addressing her concerns is to get rid of her hurt, be energized, feel positive, and respond to him in caring ways.

3 Steps to Reigniting Your Husband’s Love for You

3 Steps to Reigniting Your Husband’s Love for You

A wife who has been married for twenty years to a loving, goodwilled husband and father (her words!) found herself suddenly struggling to understand how their relationship had gone south.

A Kernel of Truth Does Not Justify the Unloving Gut-Punch

A Kernel of Truth Does Not Justify the Unloving Gut-Punch

In my book Speak Your Mind, I offer a four-point checklist that everything we communicate should be. Whether we’re talking to our spouse, our children, our boss, or the bank teller, we should ask ourselves, “Is that which I’m about to communicate: 1) true? 2) kind? 3) necessary, and 4) clear?

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What Can Genesis Teach a Wife about How to Encourage the Struggling Businessman?

Reacting vs. Responding as a Parent

Reacting vs. Responding as a Parent

“I want that toy!” “He hit me!” “I don’t want to leave. I am having too much fun!” (Shortly after darting away from you.) “Dad, I scratched the car.” “I spilled the finger nail polish on the carpet.” Do you respond or react to such episodes?

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Mistakes Happen - And Then What? [Video]

Mistakes Happen - And Then What? [Video]

Ecclesiastes 7:20 says, “There is no one on earth who does what is right all the time and never makes a mistake.” My daughter, Joy, gifted me at Christmas with a whole season of Gunsmoke on DVDs. As a boy, I enjoyed watching United States Marshal, Matt Dillon, and his friends Chester, Doc and Kitty, confront and defeat the bad guys in Dodge City. Every program also taught a powerful moral principle.

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Husbands, Wake Up Before It's Too Late! - Part 2

Husbands, Wake Up Before It's Too Late! - Part 2

Did you catch Part 1 of this series? If not, read that first and then return to Part 2. This husband had stepped over the cliff and was hanging in mid-air. Did he realize it? Would he wake up in time? The husband from Part 1 continues his story by saying, “...My wife put on a happy face for the sake of our children, but inside she was hurting. She basically cried to me to never do it again--she was begging for my love and I let her down.

Husbands, Wake Up Before It’s Too Late – Part 1

Husbands, Wake Up Before It’s Too Late – Part 1

A husband writes, “Dr. Eggerichs, “I've been married for 14 years this past August. We have three great kids. I feel weird writing you this email, but I am desperate and maybe this plainly makes me feel better by opening up. The only one I can talk to for advice is my mother. My father is a good man, but I simply can't go to him for advice.

Parenting Isn’t A Popularity Contest

Parenting Isn’t A Popularity Contest

There is a biblical plan to parent God’s way, and when we follow His way, we succeed in His eyes. We can please God when we parent His way, even though our children are displeased by our parenting. We are not running a popularity contest to get our kids to vote on how much they like us. We are running a family where we teach right from wrong.Parenting God’s way does not always make us popular!

Parenting

How To Forgive An Adulterous Spouse [Video]

How To Forgive An Adulterous Spouse [Video]

A husband wrote to us, "I read your post on Facebook today regarding forgiveness, but I don't understand how I can forgive my spouse when she has had two affairs. We are now divorced...Please help me understand your message."

How To Teach Your Kids About Respect And Honor

How To Teach Your Kids About Respect And Honor

Envision the gladiators and noblemen in the Roman Republic sometime around 73 BC. The T.V. mini-series, Spartacus (2011), re-enacts the culture at this time. In one scene, a leading character addresses the family of Batiatus. He declares, “Here we stand. This house is built atop the unshakable foundation of honor and respect. And in no man were these qualities more evident than in Titus Lentulus Batiatus."

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Do You Negatively React To Motivate Your Spouse To Be More Positive?

Do You Negatively React To Motivate Your Spouse To Be More Positive?

Based on Ephesians 5:33, I have suggested two major reactions that happen in marriages: 1. When a wife feels unloved, she tends to react in ways that feel disrespectful to her husband. 2. When a husband feels disrespected, he tends to react in ways that feel unloving to his wife. Both of these reactions ignite what I call The Crazy Cycle--without love a wife reacts without respect, and without respect a husband reacts without love.