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Is she leaving a healthy relationship? I do what I do because the thought of more women continuing to believe they are having routine marriage problems when they are not is crushing to me. My one goal is to offer clarity to that individual who believes her hard is a typical day of marriage and to support…
Spouses in destructive marriages are often accused of having an aversion to marriage conflict. They are told to develop relationship muscles to help them address and solve relationship problems. tw: betrayal “Everyone says something they don’t mean. Everyone forgets sometimes. Come on, he’s begging for forgiveness” is said to the wife, who confesses she no…
Many women in unsafe marriages don’t know their marriages are draining the life out of them. And one of the reasons they don’t know their marriages are killing them is because, in the Christian world, most (if not all) problems in marriage are presented as “normal marriage issues everyone goes through.” Even when a plain-to-see…
The problem with a lot of Christian marriage teaching is that most Christian writers, speakers, and pastors assume both spouses want to change. They naively believe that with just the right tools, strategies, and support, all spouses can mature up. And so they spend a lot of time trying to save all marriages. But is…
Christian marriage advice: how can we stop getting it wrong? When I talk about destructive marriages, periodically, someone in the comments will bring up the importance of the marriage commitment. They’ll talk about how couples should practice “grace” in marriage. How they should trust God and follow Biblical counsel (vs “worldly” advice.) Why abusive men…
Biblical advice for marriage problems is a common search phrase in online search engines. Christians want to know what God says about marriage problems. Whenever I write about free will and how God does not override it to change a marriage, I get comments like “Let’s not limit God” or “How about Paul?” Or “Nebuchadnezzer?”…