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Avoiding Conflict with your Spouse
Expectation identification is one way to avoid arguments with your spouse. Think about one thing that causes you to experience disappointment or anger in your marriage. Usually, it can be traced back to your spouse failing to fulfill your expectations. Maybe you had it set in your mind that your wife would always wear feminine …
10 Ways to Push Your Spouse Away
1. Computer Time Posting, commenting, shopping, gaming, chatting, emailing, downloading, blogging, reading, researching—there are a ton of things to do on the computer. Much of it is good, but too much of a good thing can be bad sometimes, especially when it takes priority over spending time with your spouse. 2. TV For many, watching …
The Best Christmas Storyteller
Do you know who has shared the Christmas story more than anyone? It’s not Billy Graham or another famous evangelist. It could be a head of state, or a political heavy weight…but it’s not. In fact, it’s not even a real person! The Christmas story has been shared around the world, year after year, by …
Christmas Traditions – The Real Story
Today’s Christmas traditions bring nostalgia for the simpler times of childhood – something that can benefit all of us in these challenging times. Yet behind each of these traditions lies a historical lesson that is both poignant and instructive for today, and the future. A young couple was preparing to celebrate their first Christmas together. …
4 R’s of Technology
Do you control technology or does technology control you? We’ve powered up our laptops, smart phones and video games. We’ve powered down family meals, drive-time conversations with kids and date nights with our spouse. We’ve increased tech and decreased touch. What can we do about it? Just remember the four R’s. 1. Recognize that you …
8 Outside-the-Box Date Ideas
Couple time is important to your marriage, especially when life is fast and furious (and when is it not?). Making some one-on-one time for you and your spouse can be tricky, given the family schedule and tight budgets. When the traditional dinner and a movie on Saturday night just isn’t going to happen, try …
10 Ways to Turn Technology from Foe to Friend
Just like many other things in life, technology can be an enemy or an ally. It can be used for good or evil. Here are 10 things my wife, Susan, and I do that turn technology from a potential foe to a worthwhile friend. 1. We each send a good-night text to our girls who …