The headlines proclaimed the potential fall of another celebrity. The scandal began with a car crash in the middle of the night.  Shortly after, photos of a mistress surfaced and we all heard a voicemail recording threaten to tear another family apart. Tiger Woods, who has spent his career sporting a squeaky clean image now is cloaked with scandal. These...

Yesterday, as I was dropping my daughter off at the local high school we had a rather startling conversation about marital commitment. We had been talking about one of her friends whose parents had just separated. The transition had been tough on her friend. Separation, strained living situations and the drama surrounding the family was supplanting...

My wife repeated the sentence I could not understand,  "I'm moving out". I searched her eyes for the familiar fire. Seeing none, I thought,  "Who is this woman?" My wife of two years had become an instant stranger. "What are you saying? Why do you want to leave?", I asked. "I'm unhappy and lonely and miserable actually." There, it was...

You don't have to deal with divorce alone. Talk to an email mentor. CNN.com recently reported that studies found going through a divorce does permanent damage to your health. Though those who remarried showed some improvement, they still exhibited more long-lasting mental and physical deficits than men and women who are married once and remain...

February 13th fell on a Tuesday that year, but it seemed like my unlucky day. My wife of twenty years was divorcing me; it would be final in two days. February 1, my employer had shown me the door—on the twenty-fifth anniversary of my employment. Now, on February 13, I was in my physician’s office getting test results. Unaware of my difficulties,...

Progressive choices that lead to destruction At work, in our neighborhoods and during our daily activities we all encounter people of the opposite sex who are attractive.  That's not the problem.  Our selfish choices after the attraction create the problem. Adultery has a progression and most people (even Christians) take these steps before they...

The hum in the office grew as people filtered in that morning. Soft chuckles over some incident the night before, muffled conversations and ringing phones filled the air. Suddenly, an urgent tone broke in. The first reports of a possible tragedy began circulating, and while some employees wrapped up phone calls, one or two turned on a radio, and...