The Bible uses marriage as a metaphor for God’s relationship with us many times. I think there’s a good reason for it. In this podcast episode, I discuss my belief that all the do’s and don’ts, both in marriage, and in the Bible, point to one thing: the relationship.
In this week’s challenge, I mentioned active listening as a skill that people should be using, but hadn’t had a post up yet about it. So, today I’m going to rectify that. Active listening, which I’ve also heard called Listening 2.0 or Level 2 Listening,
I once heard it said that the definition of conflict is two people in the same ZIP code. Well, in marriage the people are a lot closer than that, and this inevitably spawns conflict. Now, conflict isn’t bad, in fact, it can be good and healthy. Conflict forces us to grow, to see another person’s perspective, to seek unselfish solutions. But, if conflict is dealt with in an unhealthy manner, then it can be damaging.
Here’s a question I received yesterday from our anonymous Have A Question page: My husband and I used to have sex ALL the time. It was like we could never keep our hands off each other. We were adventurous, interested in trying new things in
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe to the Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSS | MoreThis week we’re discussing how you train your spouse. In all
Last night I was at a church leadership meeting, and we were given an except from a book called Becoming a Mission-Driven Church, and it had an acronym it in: R.I.T.E. that nicely encapsulated a lot of the communication ideas I’ve written about on this
Some of you are aware that a few weeks ago I was asked to preach in my church (no, I’m not a pastor), and some had expressed a desire to hear it, since I was talking about marriage. It took me a bit to get the
This question came up in a discussion with some readers: If a spouse, after given an ultimatum about quitting porn, chooses the porn, is it okay to divorce them? The questioner basically gave the answer I would, but I wanted to expand a bit on
Well, it’s National Orgasm Day in the US, and I thought we’d help them celebrate by sharing some facts about orgasm. Just for fun. Then you can go and celebrate however you wish.
I’ve been putting off this post for a long time, but after writing about why men are breast obsessed, it seemed an opportune time to bring it up. So, today we’re going to talk about Adult Nursing Relationships, also known as ANRs, and more specifically,
I thought I’d write a quick post about this, because it seems that it’s not always a well known concept. It’s the basic idea that your sex life seems to have inertia. For those of you with Physics backgrounds, we could say it follow Newton’s