Challenges And Conflicts
How to Survive Your Spouses’ Affair
If you are dealing with an unfaithful spouse, the pain you are feeling unfortunately comes with the territory. The consequences of an affair are overwhelming and horrifically painful. I have heard it likened to post traumatic stress syndrome. You are in a place you never expected to be. Here are a few things that will help you navigate this...
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Coping with Your Husband's Job Loss My cell phone rang on Monday morning while I was working...
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Healing a Marriage Story told by Tom Archibald and Suellen Beatty, written by Laurie...
Conflict is inevitable. If you manage conflict poorly, your relationships will suffer. If you manage conflict well, you'll help them grow healthy and strong. Here are steps to RESOLVE conflict. 1. R - Remain calm The number one rule for resolving conflict is to remain calm and controlled throughout the process. Rash, uncontrolled speech is...
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What are some of the warning signs of entering a potentially compromising relationship? How can you safeguard your marriage? How do you know when your spouse’s needs aren’t being met? In this short video clip, Dr. Dave Currie, host of new TV show Marriage Uncensored, discusses some of these questions with marital therapist Kirby Hanawalt....
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A powerful tool for health as we approach the new year can be to focus on giving and/or receiving only real apologies when we want to heal a rift with a family member, friend, or co-worker. We hear apologies all the time, but I don't think many of them are sincere. An apology has to be real to heal. Trang Lei spent the day helping Martha buy furniture...
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Story told by Joy Carroll, written by Muriel Larson "Me - submit to my husband, Lord?" I exclaimed. "How can I submit to a man I no longer love or respect? Our marriage is nothing like what I had dreamed of. It's a nightmare!" For years I had imagined what it would be like when the Lord gave me the husband I prayed for. Perhaps...
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How do you look at change? Change can be positive or negative -- depending on how you look at it. Do you see it as an adventure or is "change" a scary word to you? Maybe you just don't want to rock the boat -- even if it's going nowhere. Change can be risky, but we're convinced that no risk equals no change, and no change adds up to no growth...
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Do you feel abandoned? Our mentors are here for you. Request a mentor today. It's a complaint I hear regularly from people looking for help for their marriages:"I feel distant from my spouse." "I try to get my husband to open up, but instead he just shuts down." "My wife just doesn't seem interested in me anymore. I feel like we're a million...
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Every couple fights at some point. How you handle those conflicts will have a huge effect on your marriage. You can improve your marriage relationship by learning how to have good fights! "Patterns in how couples fight can predict their likelihood of divorce with up to 90% accuracy." ~ Dr. John Gottman, University of Washington "How you argue,...
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