Practical Biblical Solutions
How to Help Your Adult Child Without Enabling
Am I enabling my adult child’s addiction? As parents, we seek to protect our children, even when they are adults. But in some cases, “helping” may actually be harming. By protecting your adult child from the consequences of their addiction, you may also be enabling them to continue using drugs [...]
Are You Compatible with Your Mate?
Research findings are highly consistent concerning compatibility. The most stable marriages are those involving two people with many similarities. For couples, similarities are money in the bank and differences are like debts that must be paid. When people come from similar backgrounds they operate from a position of strength. Their [...]
Your Wife’s Need For Caring Conversation
It’s a strange thing. I rarely have a man ask me, “Why doesn’t my wife talk to me?” What I do hear is almost always the opposite—“Why doesn’t my husband talk to me?” It’s something of an axiom that men do not have as great a desire for conversation with [...]
Strategies for Managing Anxiety and Depression
Use deep breathing exercises. Breathing exercises can be very beneficial for those with anxiety, especially those that hyperventilate. Hyperventilation is very common for people that have panic attacks and often causes physical symptoms that create more anxiety on their own. So to prevent that from happening, breathing exercises can [...]
Married But Alone
A common complaint I regularly hear from those requesting marriage counseling sounds like this: “I feel distant from my spouse.” “I try to get my husband to open up, but he just shuts down.” “My wife just doesn’t seem interested in me anymore. I feel like we’re a million miles [...]
“I’m Sorry” is Not Enough
Have you ever said, “Look, I said I’m sorry; can we just drop it?” OR “All right, fine. I’m sorry. Do you feel better now?” Where did we get the idea that two simple words have the power to absolve all offenses and heal all wounds? When did we come [...]