“Pray for me. Here it goes…again.” I tapped send and temporarily sealed the conversation I’d been having with my best friend. Turning, I set my sights on my husband and zapped him with the never-fail stun gun, “We need to talk.” Every couple has chronic conversations. The ones you see coming a mile away. They…
Q: We haven’t even been married 2yrs yet and my husband is telling his friends he wants a divorce after every fight. Do you think he means it? What should I do? A (Gary Chapman): He probably is very discouraged because fighting is discouraging. No one wins in a fight. Even if you win the…
No one doubts that, when the alarm system of depression sounds, your life is profoundly affected. Alarms are intended as wake-up calls to direct your attention to either something within yourself, something within your relationships, or something within your circumstances (often all three) that needs to change in order to have a satisfying life. As…
Q: What does God say about an abusive, angry, and bitter husband, who insults his wife in front of their kids and blames the wife for everything that goes wrong? A: The scriptures say that we are to be angry and sin not. So, a husband who is lashing out at his wife in front of his children…
As a child I never learned how to express my anger in healthy ways. In fact, I believed anger was a bad thing, probably because that’s what I learned from my parents. If someone even hinted that I might be angry I would say, “I’m not angry. I’m just upset.” Many years later I finally…
