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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?

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

Can We Be Grateful in the Face of a Tragedy?

Can We Be Grateful in the Face of a Tragedy?

Would you respond like this daughter? "Dear Dr. Eggerichs, My mother and father always had a good marriage. They were best friends and spent almost all of their time together. For as long as I can remember, dad chose to be with his family rather than anyone else.

Should a Parent Feel Offended by Young Children? Why?

Should a Parent Feel Offended by Young Children? Why?

As Christian parents, with all the scriptural backup to our parental authority, we can feel the pressure to make sure our kids are obedient, reacting too sternly, or in frustration or anger. This is an example of how parents can start the Family Crazy Cycle by overreacting to kids just being kids. Our rigidity and negativity are perceived as unloving to our children, who then feel unfairly judged, and now we have entered the Family Crazy Cycle. Once you admit to yourself, “Yes, I am feeling disrespected,” then you can ask, “Should I feel disrespected?”

Parenting

5 Possible Reasons A Wife Feels Her Husband Hates Her [Video]

5 Possible Reasons A Wife Feels Her Husband Hates Her [Video]

Wives have asked me time and time again, “Why does my husband hate me?” I hurt for these women, then I ask them to tell me more.From the many stories I’ve heard over the years, I have discovered five possible answers to the question.

Learn 7 Key Truths from Love and Respect in the Family

Learn 7 Key Truths from Love and Respect in the Family

In researching this book, Love and Respect in the Family, I have searched the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation for pertinent passages on parenting . . . and there are many. I share these with you, and I give plenty of personal illustrations—what I learned from my mistakes and also what went right. Be assured my adult children, now in their thirties, have signed off on everything I share—the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Parenting

Giving Thanks Beyond Thanksgiving Day

Giving Thanks Beyond Thanksgiving Day

How grateful I am for a day we set aside to remember the freedom the Pilgrims found in America. A time for us to reflect on the many blessings of the past year. We love the traditional food that is served and the many memories that go with this special day. Years ago I became convinced that giving thanks every day and in all things was the key to finding joy and contentment in the midst of daily circumstances, the good and the not so good, and especially my parenting.

Does Love and Respect Let My Spouse Off the Hook?

Does Love and Respect Let My Spouse Off the Hook?

Q: Sometimes it seems like you are giving the other person an excuse for not being loving. You probably aren't, but why can't I expect my husband to be loving just out of unconditional love like God commands? How will it ever be unconditional if it is just a response to how I act?

Calling All Moms! Apply "Respect Talk" to Your Sons [Video]

Calling All Moms! Apply "Respect Talk" to Your Sons [Video]

I have a favor to ask of mothers who have sons. The #1 application of the Love and Respect message beyond marriage is by moms who apply to their sons what they learned from our book or at our conference. What is Respect Talk? Beyond their words of love, Moms begin saying things like, “I really respect you.” Or, “I respect you for being an honest person." Or, “Because you are becoming a man of honor, I need your help on how to solve this conflict between you and your sister.”

Parenting

The Consequences of Anger: Can My Marriage Survive?

The Consequences of Anger: Can My Marriage Survive?

Q: For years my wife told me I needed to get help for my anger, but I didn’t listen. I just got angrier. Finally she gave up and moved out, which opened my eyes. Since then I have gone to counseling and taken an anger management course and I have never felt better in my life. The problem is my wife won’t come home. How do I show her the changes I’ve made in myself when she won’t give me the chance? I have thanked her numerous times for opening my eyes and have begged her for a second chance, but she won’t respond. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.