20 November 2009
Why Is Marriage So Difficult? By Gary Smalley Let’s begin with the problem marriage presents. Two independent people are trying to join together to make one unified team. Marriage is all about giving up your own rights and wants. The reason it fails so often is that one or both partners won’t give up their goals, [...]
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17 November 2009
by Dr. Gary Smalley Nancy Bramlett was miserable—trapped in an abusive marriage with no hope of improvement. For her, divorce wasn’t an option, but shopping was. It was summertime in Memphis and Nancy, with her friend Linda, were on a mission. They started with clothing. Hopping from mall to mall, and boutique to shop, they tried on [...]
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16 November 2009
Discipleship isn’t something we do to people as much as it’s something we are by Robert N. Nielsen, Discipleship Journal, Issue 67 03/28/05 The race was on. My two brothers, Tom and Mike, plummeted down the river ahead of me, splashing and yelling their way to the best fishing spot. I was last out of the car. By [...]
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30 October 2009
Q: My marriage struggles are keeping me up at night. I so bad want to roll over and tell my husband to go sleep in the other room. He is clueless how repulsed I am by his words and behavior. I am tired of losing sleep over him. My frustration is at an all time [...]
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28 October 2009
Effective communication is a complex business. If you go into it expecting things to flow easily and without a lot of effort, you’re just kidding yourself. I recommend that you adjust your expectations from “simple” to “complex,” especially in three key areas: 1. Expect problems and misunderstandings. Even the best communicators sometimes fail to understand others, [...]
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27 October 2009
During most of our marriage, my wife could never expect to receive comfort from me whenever she made an embarrassing mistake. I usually ridiculed her or got upset. But eventually, she began to share with me her need for sympathy, compassion, and understanding. Just when I was starting to get the hang of it, my [...]
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