Marriage

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

“My Response Is My Responsibility”—7 Fears and 7 Benefits

“My Response Is My Responsibility”—7 Fears and 7 Benefits

There is an axiom that I have used in my teachings for as long as I can remember that, to this day, I still fully believe in its simple but life-changing truth: “My response is my responsibility.”

When Frustrated, How Do You Come Across to Your Husband? 6 Questions to Ask Yourself

When Frustrated, How Do You Come Across to Your Husband? 6 Questions to Ask Yourself

Wives are driven to connect, to be understood, and to receive empathy, which is a wonderful characteristic of God’s beautiful pink design of them.

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.

Why She Shares, and What He Hears

3 Steps to Reigniting Your Husband’s Love for You

What is Respect? 4 Ways to Know and Show Respect

What is Respect? 4 Ways to Know and Show Respect

In a note she wrote to us, Carol asked the following questions: “Please answer- I'm so confused. What exactly are you identifying as ‘respect?’ Perhaps you could give a list, or point me in the direction of a source of clear cut examples of giving respect or what kind of things women are telling their husbands they respect them for? I'm through the first three chapters of the book with my husband and feel confused as to whether I'm really understanding it. Sometimes I think I do but then get confused again.”Here is how I replied:

When A Husband Loves His Wife, Will She Respect Him? [Video]

When A Husband Loves His Wife, Will She Respect Him? [Video]

The Energizing Cycle tells us what the Bible reveals: a husband’s love motivates a wife’s respect, and a wife’s respect motivates a husband’s love. Is this cycle a valid point or mere conjecture? Looking at only half of the equation, will a husband’s love energizes his wife’s honor?

4 Reasons Valentine's Day Was Special – or Not!

4 Reasons Valentine's Day Was Special – or Not!

I hear two extreme responses from couples AFTER Valentine's Day: "We had the most romantic Valentine's Day! We are still in the afterglow!" "We got in a huge fight on Valentine's Day! We are still mad at each other." There are four reasons why this feels like the best day or the worst day for most people. Reason #1:A Wife’s Sentimental Desire for Love

Her Need for Sentimental Love, Part 3

Her Need for Sentimental Love, Part 3

In Part 2 of this series, we discussed how some men refuse to try to understand the sentimentality of women when it comes to love. Because he does not have the same need, he demands that she adjust to him, not vice versa. But God has something to say to him about this:1 Peter 3:7 commands the husband to "live with your [wife] in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman."