What is unavoidable & changing, temporary & ever-lasting, stressful & fun, and comforting & challenging all at the same time? Relationships! From dating and marriage relationships to relationships with co-workers and siblings, relating with other people well gives us an opportunity to love and grow, but also requires maturity and conflict management skills. The complex…
Single? Dating? Engaged? Newly married? Whatever your relationship status, today’s gifts, Things I Wish I’d Known Before We Got Married and The Five Love Languages, Singles Edition offer practical, encouraging advice and insight from Dr. Gary Chapman! Bestselling author and marriage counselor, Gary Chapman, with more than 35 years of counseling couples, believes that divorce is the…
FEATURED GUEST: Mark Driscoll If you’re married, you’ll have conflict. You cannot avoid conflict because marriage is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person, and both you and your spouse are imperfect people. As my wife Grace and I write in our book, Real Marriage, 1 sinner plus 1 sinner cannot equal 0 conflict. Every…
If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” I repeated this to myself in complete silence for more than an hour as I sat on the couch next to a brand-new messenger bag and a confused fiancé. I couldn’t believe my fiancé, Michael, would buy himself something that, to me, seemed so…
Often people who find themselves in a bad or destructive relationship struggle to see the signs that are in fact…in plain sight. That’s why after it all falls apart you’ll hear them say statements like, “I didn’t see the signs,” or “If I just would have known.” So in the spirit of enlightenment, I want…
