My husband Jonas and I say this phrase a lot these days. With two kids under a year and a half, jobs, families, friends, church, life, we just are burnt out. That’s the long and short of the situation. I’ve come to realize that it’s really not complicated: we simply are bone tired. At any…
Everyone has a past. EVERYONE! And we all bring that baggage into our marriage relationships, whether we want to or not. I have become absolutely convinced that brutal, gut-level honesty within marriage relationships is vital. I use the words “have become” because I have not always been a strong supporter of telling the truth to…
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…
I’m so confused! Television and new fiction releases tell me that I should be sexually insatiable. Text books tell me that my husband thinks about sex every seven seconds. Some women tell me that they could live without it forever. Over the past few years my husband has wanted it less and less, he seems…
Near the end of our first year of marriage, Bill and I told some friends we needed a mini-retreat just for the two of us, but we couldn’t afford it. We had some decisions to pray and talk about. I forget what they were, but they were important enough to merit a day in a…
