Forgiveness doesn’t journal Alice sped into my (Rich’s) office carrying a Starbuck’s and a notebook. After exchanging pleasantries, I asked how I could help. She opened a journal in which she had documented, in great detail, her husband’s faults. After twenty minutes, I interrupted. “Alice, why are you here?” “I want to solve the problems…
My first date was in a foreign country. Mecco was tall (well, taller than me), dark, and handsome, and he spoke about eleven words of English. It was just an informal date; I was working with a ministry team in the Dominican Republic leading Vacation Bible School, and to celebrate the end of our time…
Many have been there. A relationship that, at first, seemed good deteriorates into a boatload of pain when one deeply injures the other with emotionally (or even morally) indefensible behavior. Sometimes, it involves damaging words spewed out in the heat of battle. At other times, repeated actions inescapably wound the heart. Often, it is only…
On paper this looked like a real bad idea.” This was the comment from a husband whom I met while doing co-therapy at The Hideaway Experience. He was referring to the idea of sitting in a room for four straight days with three others couples (especially three other men), while two therapists guided them through…
One of the most uninformed statements that a husband or wife can make is, “We are not compatible.” Sometimes the words change: “We don’t have anything in common,” or, “We are as different as night and day.” Of course you are different. If both of you were the same, one of you would be unnecessary….
