marriage advice

What If Bad Relationship Teachings are Keeping Women Single?
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What If Bad Relationship Teachings are Keeping Women Single?

What if bad dating Christian advice is keeping women single? (Who want to be married.) In their new book, She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking, authors Sheila Wray Gregoire, Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach, and Joanna Sawatsky talk about bad dating outcomes. “When we talk about *bad dating outcomes,” we often…

Courageous Steps When Nervous To Explore If Your Marriage Is Healthy
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Courageous Steps When Nervous To Explore If Your Marriage Is Healthy

Is my marriage healthy? I’ve interacted with individuals who believed it is an overreaction to explore whether a marriage is safe or not. They believed no marriage would survive if we all analyzed power and control dynamics or unchanging negative habits in marriage. That no spouse would survive such deep levels of scrutiny.  I believe…

Does Vague, Confusing Language Around Abuse Keep Women in Abusive Marriages?

Does Vague, Confusing Language Around Abuse Keep Women in Abusive Marriages?

Helping women in abusive marriages: does unclear language or presenting opposing ideas when speaking into a harmful situation keep women spinning their wheels in abuse?  I believe it does. Based on some conversations I’ve had online, some people believe God can change anyone, including hardhearted harmful people. And so, to them, it’s essential to hold space…

When a Spouse Won’t Address Harmful Character Issues (Clarity For Wives)
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When a Spouse Won’t Address Harmful Character Issues (Clarity For Wives)

Character issues in marriage: Many women find themselves in marriages where a spouse is deeply wounding or immature, or proud but won’t address these individual character issues. Or the spouse says they are “working on it,” but the wife never really sees the long-term fruit of that work. She wants to know what’s going on,…