My cell phone rang on Monday morning while I was working at a client’s office. “Lori, can you meet me at home? I’ve just been let go from my job.” I packed up and got in the car and started to drive, my heart pounding, my mind racing…then the tears started, and I began to pray. Just the previous Sunday... >Read More

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Our search to understand love is obvious when you consider the numerous books, articles and talk shows dedicated to the topic. People around the world deem love as essential to being happy and look for it in many different places and ways. Television and movies tell us what "real love" should look like but somehow something has been lost... >Read More

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Do you want to be good to your marriage? Now, not later when the kids grow up, is the best time to be good to your marriage. Your marriage can actually influence your children in a very positive way -- especially when you're good to it! Children who grow up in happy, intact, functional families with parents who love each... >Read More

Tags: Claudia Arp, David Arp, healthy marriage, husbands, improving your marriage, marriage, protecting your marriage, relationships, sex and love, wives, women and men

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How can I be a spiritual helpmate to my unsaved husband? He says he believes in God, and that Christ died for his sins. He even participates in Biblical conversations with my saved family. But when he's with unsaved friends, he jokes about hell and how he's going there. He doesn't see anything wrong with sex in movies, doesn't attend church... >Read More

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A man who can cry is a man who has learned some secrets about intimacy. But sadly, for many men it takes something tragic or life-changing before they understand this truth. Here are a few ways you can tell if the man you love has trouble with intimacy or struggles to open up: He's unable to discuss his feelings. He's determined to... >Read More

Tags: communication, dealing with differences, Dr. Gary Smalley, healthy marriage, husband, husbands, improving your marriage, intimacy, relationships, sex and love, women and men

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Many marriages and relationships are not violent, but they are not healthy or happy and far from the ideal of great. Why? Often, it's because one person in the relationship becomes a giver, and the other a taker. Here's an example of such a relationship described by a young woman who wrote to me for counsel. Q: This summer I found out... >Read More

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The other day I read some statistics on the high percentage of marriages that end in divorce. And thought of the countless others that are unhappy, frustrated relationships, not ending in divorce but inadequately meeting the needs of the partners. Lack of communication seems to be one of the prime causes of marriage breakdown. Titles such as "Communicating...... >Read More

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