How to Evaluate Your Relationship with Your Spouse
Every marriage needs evaluation. When you evaluate your marriage, you’re hitting the pause button and looking at the condition of your relationship in a careful and thoughtful way. By doing so, you’ll both see what you’re doing well along with areas in which you need to grow individually and as a couple. A meaningful evaluation of your marriage leads to an acceleration in the growth of your relationship.
Are You a Backseat Driver?
Driving can be a stressful task. I think I’m a pretty good driver, but Susan and our kids would definitely challenge that. The car commercials want us to expect that every ride in our slick vehicle will be pure joy, sunshine, and clear roads. But we know better…it’s hard. Running late.
#062: RESPECT (Podcast)
Being married to someone means knowing all the incredible things about them. But it also means knowing all their flaws: their impatience, their mistakes, their lack of self-control…the list goes on and on. So it’s no wonder that knowing our spouses’ imperfections makes showing them respect a challenge.
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship
About five years ago, I wrote this post and decided to tweak it a bit and bring it to you once again. Why? Not only was it a popular topic, but also so many people who comment on my blog have struggled tremendously because trust in their marriage has been breached. And they want to know how what needs to occur to have the foundation of trust restored in their relationship. While I’ll specifically be addressing this issue in the context of marriage, the principles apply to all relationships.
4 Mood Killers and How to Avoid Them
Sometimes the mood hits quickly. And sometimes, the mood builds slowly. At either of those times, the mood for physical intimacy with your spouse is more fragile than you might imagine. We’ve all done it…we’ve all killed the mood, mostly unintentionally. If we’re to cultivate a healthy sexual relationship with our spouses, these are 4 mood […]
#061: 4 Virtues to Teach Your Kids (Podcast)
When you think of parenting, the difficulties may come to mind first: the arguments and accidents, the messes and the madness. But what if I told you that parenting was never meant to be solely difficult—it was meant to be exciting and enjoyable too!
Your Date Night Checklist
Among the ideas that I regularly offer to couples to build their marriages is a regularly scheduled date night. It seems a simple idea, but sometimes couples need a reminder of things to think about – and not think about – both before and during the date. In another post, I offered creative ideas for dates (not […]
What To Do When Your Kids Are Texting Instead of Talking
Recently, I wrote about Why Are Your Kids Texting Not Talking? In this post, I’d like to look at some important steps you can take to improve communication between you and your child or grandchild and get beyond texting to actual talking and relationship building
#060: 12 Huge Mistakes Parents Can Avoid (Podcast)
As parents, we are deeply committed to raising our kids well. This means loving them well, caring for them well, providing for them well, and teaching them well. But, unfortunately, no parent is perfect. We all mess up—probably more often than we’d like. So how can we work to avoid some of the bigger parenting mistakes? Well, on today’s show, best-selling author of more than 25 books—Tim Elmore—is going to share some wisdom with us from his new book 12 Huge Mistakes Parents Can Avoid.
