Shannon Ethridge is the best-selling author of the Every Woman’s Battle books on sexual integrity, and The Sexually Confident Wife, among other titles. In addition to being a writer, she is a speaker, lay counselor and advocate for sexual integrity with a master’s degree in counseling/human relations from Liberty University. She has spoken to youth,…
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…
Our Story My wife and I now have the marriage we have always wanted, but it has not come effortlessly, and there was even a time when neither one of us felt it was worth fighting for. Trisha and I met at Lincoln Christian College in 1993. I placed a bet with a friend of…
First time emotional and sexual affairs are almost always accidental. They rarely start as an inappropriate relationship. The individuals involved are not “fishing” or looking to find an affair partner. In fact, they are usually committed to their spouse initially. So, if that’s true, how do these experiences happen? Is it irrational behavior? Does the…
For Valentine’s Day last month, some people bought two sets of Hallmark greetings and chocolates: one for their sweetheart, and one for their boss or co-worker. There’s no infidelity going on, they claim, they just have a “work spouse”—a common phrase that has popped up over the past few years to describe a co-worker with…
