Christian marriage advice

High-Conflict Couple Vs Abuse in Marriage
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High-Conflict Couple Vs Abuse in Marriage

Married Christian, just because your marriage weathered high conflict doesn’t mean every couple with high conflict can address their specific problems and have a good marriage.  The longer I’m in this space, the more I see Christians pulling from their personal experience in a high-conflict marriage and claiming all marriage hardship can be addressed and resolved.  They might say…

Of “Godly Suffering” and What That Means For Marriage
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Of “Godly Suffering” and What That Means For Marriage

Does God require our suffering? High-control, works-based Christianity says our faith is not legitimate if it’s not accompanied by struggle or drudgery.   Expressions like “the price of the anointing” “salvation is free, but the anointing is not”1 might not be familiar to all Christians, but those with evangelical/fundamentalist/conservative roots are super familiar.  The “God requires suffering to bring…