Oh, sweet one with a broken heart. I’ve been there and I have felt the sting of hurt like daggers into my heart as I faced a betrayal in my marriage that I never saw coming. My husband broke my heart and I can promise you that it shattered into a gazillion pieces,...
When two halves don’t make a whole… I have heard it time and time again. Couples come into my office for a premarital appointment and I ask them to tell me their love story. Somewhere in there and in so many words, they tell me how they found their other...
Marriage is hard. It just is. Sometimes life gets so busy and we lose track of the last time we actually sat down and had a focused conversation. As a wife, and the one that the littles call Mommy, I am unfortunately guilty of putting my marriage on the backburner and...
Why create couples routines in your marriage? I know what you might be thinking, creating couples routines don’t sound quite so exciting. You might be right, but it’s an important part of your relationship to create a good, healthy, and strong marriage. We tend to...
Sometimes, you just need an intimacy challenge. As a former marriage therapist, I have seen so many clients over the years that show up in my office due to a lack of physical and emotional intimacy in their marriage. They usually wouldn’t write that on their...
Learning how to take this time-out for couples is a necessary skill to talk about BEFORE the conflict happens. When my emotions escalate during a conflict between my husband and I (GASP!)… Yes, I admit it. There is an occasional disagreement in my household. There is...
Blended families are tough. I have had the pleasure of working with various couples for more than a decade, and many of them were involving blended family struggles. Their kids were a combination of theirs, mine, and ours and as I listened intently to the couple...
25 Marriage Tips for Christian Couples Last year, my husband and I celebrated 25 years of marriage together. We went all out for it too. By that I mean we went to Olive Garden for dinner. No, I’m kidding. I couldn’t resist. Back to my point. We got married...
