Practice the Pause. That is such good advice. I wish Steve and I would have heeded it the other day. Here we are as marriage educators, and yet sometimes we fall into bad behavior that we KNOW we shouldn’t. The other day we didn’t practice the pause. We allowed ourselves Read More…
We all have them —sore spots under our emotional skin, that if bumped or pressed upon very hard, they bring a big reaction on our part. And lets face it, no one can “bump” our emotional raw spots in the same way that our spouse can. And no one can Read More…
“Be aware of Satan’s schemes—where wounds aren’t healed, the enemy comes in and causes more damage.” (Roger Barrier) This is especially true as it pertains to emotional baggage that we bring into our marriages. Within marriage, conflict often arises. Any married couple would probably smirk at that notion as an Read More…
One thing Steve and I realized soon after the wedding is that we both dragged a lot of emotional baggage into our marriage. (And it was not the healthy kind.) Everyone accumulates some type of emotional baggage. Life is messy. But ours —particularly mine, was pretty toxic. It’s difficult to Read More…
Solid, identifiable emotions have names like depression, sadness anxiety, or anger. Moods, as I’m referring to them here, are far more difficult to pin down. They are often very hard to recognize, identify, or understand. They can, in fact, seem so nebulous, unexpected, unwarranted, or irrational that many a husband Read More…
