Are You Feeling Desperate For Love?
A lack of love creates a lot of desperation, and desperation begs for bad decisions to be made.
A lack of love creates a lot of desperation, and desperation begs for bad decisions to be made.
God can always make something brand new, even if all we give Him to work with is our desperation and despair.
Ultimately, building a strong marriage is a journey that requires commitment, patience, and continuous effort from both of you.
All too often, we react to our assumptions more than we react to what is truly being said.
Placing a boundary around your marriage lets your spouse know you value your relationship no matter the cost.
My yelling pushed my husband away, and it also caused me to feel helpless and hopeless.
Don’t try to fix their problem, but you don’t want to react to it by letting it affect you, either.
When you prioritize your marriage, you can be sure the sparks will fly for years to come!
Next to God, your spouse is designed to be your greatest resource, as you are theirs.
Do they see love as being kind and supportive or harsh and judgmental?
Night after night, the same battle ensues, albeit over different topics occasionally; this familiar war dance remains the same.
Your marriage isn’t just like an old broken rake in the garage that can be trashed. It’s a one-of-a-kind treasure.
Spiritual intimacy says I am here and in this with you no matter what.
In counseling, you sometimes could be getting so much more if you were putting in more yourself.
God is the only one who will never fail us or hurt us, and to give those divine characteristics to a fallible human is unrealistic.
Depression is not something you want to sweep under the rug or wait for them to snap out of.
One of my favorite memories growing up was spending a lot of time at the beach.
So many times couples fight over everything BUT the actual issue.
If you’re in a situation where there are constant apologies and promises of change, but change never comes, that’s a clue you need some help.
Just because you’re married, that doesn’t mean you’re done getting to know each other.
Marriage does take work, but most of that work is just being intentional.
One of the best tools to equip you to handle problems, stress, or even work better, is having more joy and more fun!
There is limited commitment and a misunderstanding of what vows really mean.
While you want to go to your husband with your needs, you can’t rely on him to meet every one of them.
No one is immune to emotional or physical affairs either, this is precisely why we must stay on guard.
Sharing your why gives a much larger incentive to understand and meet your need.
Be willing to fail your way forward with this. Keep trying, and you’ll get there!
If you have a big and often irrational response to something, that may be a trigger that you need to explore.
It’s just that “duty sex” just isn’t appealing, not to mention it’s also not what God intended.
You can pray while you decide not to tolerate any more abuse or toxicity.
Divorce will never fix your problems, especially if done unnecessarily. In fact, it will only bring you more.
The real key to changing your life and your marriage is found in your daily habits.
The healthiest marriages contain two healthy individuals.
Make sure your marriage remains one of your highest priorities.
The second you get emotionally elevated is the same second you stop being productive in communication.
It is clear that the “how” of your argument is more powerful than the “what” of it.
To have a healthy and successful marriage, you’re going to need more than just a wish and some goals.
Do not let anger take up residence in your heart and deal with it as soon as possible and you’ll be just fine.
No one wants to move close to someone that they must always defend themselves against.
When marriage is hard, it’s also a great time to control your focus. Whatever you focus on, you magnify.
When you can get a glimpse into how your husband might be feeling, you can enter in with empathy.
Despite the research and despite what scripture tells us about the power and benefits of prayer, it can still be hard to do.
By default, your children are learning key things about life just from watching you and how you and your spouse interact.
When you learn that your marriage can handle hard things it removes a lot of fear of the future.
God’s plan will always be the best one, way better than anything you could ever manifest yourself.
Life is busy, chaotic, and at times overwhelming, you don’t need your room to be.
Change is unavoidable, so whether you love it or hate it, you must learn how to deal with it because it’s surely coming!
Decide to do something, because ignoring the issues won’t lead to change.
Keep in mind that you may not be able to control what the new year brings, but you can always decide how you’re going to handle it.
You may not be able to control everything that happens this upcoming year, but the choices you make sure will influence how good your year is.
There’s nothing worse than a holiday season that is filled with hardly anything that you value!
Set aside the desire to have those Instagrammable perfect pictures.
If you’re looking to fall back in love, it’s important to focus on liking your husband first!
Nothing helps the negative go away like gratefulness.
Remember getting in God’s Word together is a gift, not a chore.
If you are not emotionally, spiritually, and mentally connected as a couple, odds are that you won’t be doing much physical connecting either.
Forgiveness doesn’t always equal healing, especially in the case of adultery.
You want to focus on creating a safe space for them to share.
He may not be sharing because he’s overly concerned about upsetting you.
The little things we often complain about as wives are often symptoms of an unmet need or desire we have.
If you haven’t noticed by now, stress is not your friend, and although some seasons it’s unavoidable, many it’s not.
We assign a definition to conflict based upon our own experience of it.
Even when dads struggle to openly express their emotions, we can still learn to see and receive love in different forms.
If you have done something wrong, your spouse has the right to feel about it however they feel about it.
Never run from your struggles, instead, allow God to use them to shape you.
If you want conversations to flow between the two of you, it’s going to require reconnecting.
If you’re believing that your marriage is hopeless, please know that it’s not.
A spouse that is leaving will often delay their leaving or recommit after seeing how serious you are about making changes to impact your marriage.
Spend some time together planning new dreams, new memories, and reliving old ones.
They work together, they tag each other in, and they model what it is to love one another well.
Two people who willingly enter into each other’s pain and frustration, attempting to understand it, so they can best support the one they love, will always lead to a win-win in a marriage.
Although life is hard and people change, that person you once completely adored is still in there.
As moms and dads, we have a responsibility to create a healthy home. Most of that effort comes from how we treat one another.
There is always room for growth in both wives and husbands alike. That’s why it’s always good to leave assumptions aside and allow room for grace and good intentions.
There is no greater resource you each should have beyond one another. This is a same team approach.
Don’t get caught up in the way your spouse responds to or receives your feelings, but do give them the gift of knowing them.
In married life, the red carpet of time and energy is never rolled out for you, but even brief moments add up.
In fact, any investment you make in your marriage pays back in dividends.
There are days that are great and there are days that challenge you to your core.
This is why it’s so important to have the conversation and decide in advance.
If you want that deeper connection with your spouse, you have to be intentional about it.
When it’s unavoidable stress, it’s time to lean on each other. This is the time to come together as a team. I
If you’ve found yourself a little disconnected, don’t get alarmed; it happens to the best of us—truly, it does.
But no worries, we’ve got some things you can do to help.
Husbands struggle with the fear of not being good enough as much as wives do.
God is for your marriage. He wants it to be good, connected, and healthy.