Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!” Psalm 144:15 Melissa is married to a depressed husband. Next to an addiction, being married to a depressed spouse is one of the most difficult challenges a husband or wife could ever endure. Depressives tend to cast a pall not only on their own lives, but…
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.” (James 2:26) According to recent scholarship summarized in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2010), authenticity in relationships was found to promote relationship building behaviors and relationship satisfaction and their antitheses—defensiveness, dishonesty, and inauthenticity were found to “undermine relationship partners’…
“I don’t want my writing room and the gym to be in the same room,” I bowled my husband over with my (better) opinion before he had even closed his mouth. We hadn’t been in our new home for two hours, our household goods hadn’t arrived, and already I was ready to bite his head…
Affairs. Pornography. Infidelity. I realize that not everyone reading this has experienced first-hand the side effects these bring to a significant relationship like marriage; and I am SO thankful there are those out there who haven’t. But the sad fact remains that we have all been impacted by at least one person’s choice (perhaps our…
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