Restoring hope to your marriage
A marriage broken by selfishness and infidelity...How do you cope, when your spouse is trapped in sin? One couple shares their story of how a ...
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Restoring hope to your marriage
A marriage broken by selfishness and infidelity...How do you cope, when your spouse is trapped in sin? One couple shares their story of how a ...
Character Red Flags
Controlling Your friend can manipulate in many ways: guilt-inducement, threats of abandoning you, threats of self-harm, yelling, physical aggression, ...
Interpersonal red flags
Previous article Character red flags Non-Affectionate This is not the problem for most couples. Often there's a need to restrain the passions that ...
Enhancing Positive Communication
Communication gives life to your marriage. Take time to rediscover your spouse again and again, and allow your spouse to deeply know you. Positive ...
How can I change my spouse?
In This Series: 1. When Expectations Meet Reality 2. Why Isn't Marriage the Way I Thought It Would Be? 3. Why Isn't My Wife the Person I Thought She ...
Disappointing, difficult and destructive marriages: What’s the difference?
From the beginning of their relationship, Jane and Simon felt as though they were soul mates, complementing one another in every area of their lives. ...
When a Man Listens to a Woman
If you don't listen to your wife, she might not feel loved. She could feel frustrated, hurt and rejected. Fortunately, there are practical things you ...
Q & A: Spouse makes insensitive comments
Question: I can’t tell you how often my spouse has hurt my feelings with careless and cutting remarks. When I protest, he laughs and says he’s ...
My spouse is verbally and emotionally abusive
Q. How should I respond to my spouse's insensitive words, manipulative mind games, and cruel put-downs? This has been a problem for the greater part ...
Words that bruise: Are you emotionally abusive?
While we recognise that men are also victims of emotional abuse, most of the victims we hear from are women, so we are choosing to focus on them in ...
How to create emotional word pictures
"We don't talk anymore!" shouted my wife, Cindy. "That's ridiculous," I said. "We talk all the time!" "But not ...
Narcissism: Personality Patterns and Concerns
Question: What exactly is a "narcissist"? I've always assumed this is just a popular way of describing an extremely egotistical person, but ...