Let me put it plainly: You can’t have a marriage and an addiction. You cannot serve two masters. It takes devotion to marriage to make it work and the same is true for addictions. A few years ago a friend of my confided to me that he was struggling with pornography. He told me that…
My husband and I were visiting his parents back when he and I were still just engaged. It was a normal visit, a normal day, a normal moment. The four of us walked along, talking about this and that, and my father-in-law cracked a joke. I stopped dead in my tracks. “What did you say?”…
Many have been there. A relationship that, at first, seemed good deteriorates into a boatload of pain when one deeply injures the other with emotionally (or even morally) indefensible behavior. Sometimes, it involves damaging words spewed out in the heat of battle. At other times, repeated actions inescapably wound the heart. Often, it is only…
QUESTION: “How can one deal with alcohol addiction in a marriage, especially when that person doesn’t think they have a problem?” —Judith ANSWER: “Alcohol and drug addiction is a major problem in our society. It impacts marriage…” (play audio below to listen in full)
