Are you addicted to soap operas, and are you experiencing marital problems?
If so, I have great news for you!
Marriage Improvement – Soap Operas
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Marriage Challenge – Pray for Family
Pray, pray, pray
- Pray for your family.
- Labor in prayer.
- Seek God what to pray for.
- As Him to bless your family.
But, why? Isn’t this setting yourself up for disappointment? Isn’t prayer something you do when nothing else works? Read on to find out why prayer helps!
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Marriage Challenge 3 – Getting What You Want
How To Motivate Your Family
Do you become frustrated trying to motivate your spouse or your children to do something? Do you keep getting fed up that nothing is happening? Are you tired of nagging, complaining, and being the bad guy all the time? Do you feel it is the only way to get anything done? Does it make you feel miserable?
Do you want to succeed and have a happy, loving family instead?
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The “As If…” Technique
Have you noticed how often prophesies seem to be self-fulfilling? That is rather than predict the future, they set the path of the future into place?
Have you noticed how well you can predict when your spouse will be nice and when he or she will misbehave? Do you find yourself preparing yourself for the worst, preparing for battle, getting all your verbal weapons lined up and responses prepared so that you can respond to what your spouse is going to say before its finished being said?
And, what happens after that when you see your spouse? Sparks fly? If your spouse doesn’t start them, you start them just to make sure your spouse doesn’t get there first. Or the look on your face and your body language and the tone of your voice sets your spouse off. Perhaps there’s a silent treatment involved, or perhaps you think there is and don’t want to be oblivious. But, you know there’s a fight coming, and soon you find you’re right.
Can I be blunt and honest about it? That’s dumb. But, we’ve probably all done it.
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Stopping Divorce – Living Courageously
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What do divorce, adultery, drug abuse, and suicide have in common?
Cowardice. That probably sounds a little too harsh. Let’s call it “fear”. Fear of trying and failing anyway. Fear of frustration. Fear that one’s inabilities or incompetency will be exposed. Fear to face the difficulties of life. Lack of confidence in one’s ability to overcome and succeed.
Some say divorce, drug abuse, and suicide are very bad solutions to ordinary problems. Truth is, they are not solutions. They are escapes. Running away. Quitting. Wimping out. Throwing in the towel. Running off the battle field. Going AWOL. An escape from duty, from responsibility.
Nobody wants to be a failure, but nobody wants to be a quitter or a coward either.
So, now that we know what the problem is, how do we solve it?
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Faith, Hope, Love — A Healthy Hope
I Corinthians 13 says that three things remain — faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love. Yet, we all need hope.
People often commit suicide for loss of hope. Hope is a belief and a trust in future happiness, that things will work out for good. When we choose to stare at the negative things in life and when we focus on all the evidence that things are horrible and will get worse, it is easy to lose hope and become depressed. Often disappointments get our full attention when they are still fresh, open wounds.
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Put out the Fire Before Rebuilding the House
What do people do when their house is on fire? Do they start rebuilding the house while it is still on fire? No. They rush to get everyone out of the house and call 911 immediately. They might grab water hoses and buckets to put the fire out. But nobody rebuilds while the fire is still raging.
But, when the fires of adultery hit our families, often we fail to put the fires out before going on with life or rebuilding. Continue reading
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Addicted to Love
I am not much of a TV person, but I enjoy seeing the news and programs related to world events. This morning I saw Helen Fisher being interviewed about her book on love addictions.
Fisher spoke of how this addiction can cause physical pain just like a drug addiction and how it is much more powerful than many other addictions in leading more people to do crazy things such as committing murder, suicide, acts of violence, driving crazy, alcohol and drug abuse, and exhibiting mental problems such as depression, loss of memory, dizziness, and other maladies.
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Wedding Ceremony Preparation
Are you getting married soon? If so, congratulations!!!
Here are some items that can help take a tremendous load of stress off the preparations and reduce costs!
Note: The focus on this page is on preparing for the wedding ceremony rather than preparing for marriage which is even more important.
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Marriage Preparation (Saving a marriage before it happens)
Marriage preparation is not the same thing as wedding planning. While wedding planning is important for getting the ceremony right, marriage preparation is important for having a good married life.
The best and most effective time to prevent a marriage crisis or divorce is before marriage. These e-books help get newlyweds off to a great start.
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Break Free From the Affair
Mastery Guide to Saving Marriage