I never imagined that I would be a single Mom. It only took a moment, just one question really, to turn my life upside down and change it forever. For years we sat in church together as a family. People used to say we looked like the family from Leave It to Beaver. Now here I was, parenting alone. ... >Read More

Tags: divorce, Family, family issues, Linda McCutcheon, parenting, single mom survival kit, single parent, single parenting, survival

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Do you sometimes feel emotionally disconnected even though your spouse is standing right next to you? FamilyLife Directors Neil and Sharol Josephson have been married for over thirty years and have spoken with thousands of couples. In this video series, they discuss gender and personality differences for emotional abandonment, and how the way your...... >Read More

Tags: communication, desire, disengaged spouse, emotional abandonment, family issues, family life, FamilyLife, intimacy, marital issues, marital problems, marriage

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What I hoped to be an average night at work, turned out to be one of the most traumatic of my life. I work as a Registered Nurse on the Ob-Gyn floor at a local hospital. One of my patients was a young married woman in her mid to late twenties. The couple had been trying for several years... >Read More

Tags: baby, death, family issues, heartache, hospital, husband, kathleen sherwood, losing a child, loss, loss of child, miscarriage, nurse, stillbirth, suffering, support, wife

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Some time ago, I was working on a dementia floor helping out some of the other nurses. There was one particular woman who was very confused. She was restless and continually wandered around, yet was too unsteady to walk on her own. I came down to the unit specifically to help this lady while the rest of the staff... >Read More

Tags: aging, aging parents, care, compassion, elderly, family issues, god's love, growing in your faith

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Many of us have hit ruts in our marriage. We live together. We chauffeur children together. We manage paychecks, and bills, and grocery lists, and karate lessons, and our parents' doctors appointments. But we don't seem to have FUN.  We often feel mildly put out. He'll be at work all day, and when he gets home, he collapses in... >Read More

Tags: challenges & conflict, commitment, communication, family issues, healthy marriage, improving your marriage, marriage, newlywed, priorities, protecting your marriage, remarriage, resolving conflict, sex and love, sheila wray gregoire

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One of the most frequent internet searches is people who want help with relationships. We are all in them and, at times, we will all struggle with a relationship of one kind or another. Whatever the relationship, husband/wife; parent/child; siblings; extended family; friendships; relationships outside the home … there is one set of guidelines that...... >Read More

Tags: argument, commitment, communication, Family, family issues, family values, fight, forgiveness, friendship, gail rodgers, hardship & suffering, help, improving your marriage, intimacy, Men, priorities, protecting your marriage, relationship, resolving conflict, restore, values, Women

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What does the Bible teach about aging parents? My father is 82, and my mother 78. Their health is starting to decline. The problem is that they do not want to have home health care, or anyone in the house as far as that goes. They want no mention of an assisted living arrangement, and they do not want... >Read More

Tags: advice, aging parents, elderly parents, Family, family issues, family values, grand parents, independence, LIFE, priorities, Women

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