Episodes

Yes, your emotions are real and your emotions are often out of touch with reality and the facts. If that's true, then getting others to acknowledge and validate your emotions is misplaced, unproductive, and potentially dangerous.

Dr. Marlin Howe used submarines and destroyers as a great way to explain dominant and manipulative behavior. Submarines are difficult to detect, stealthy, under the surface. Destroyers are easy to see, on the surface and when fighting, fire depth charges into the ocean trying to sink the submarine. The submarine takes evasive action, sometimes becomes silent, but will unleash some powerful and destructive torpedoes without warning and often after a conflict is over.

You know the PROBLEM - making everything about ME, and the SOLUTION - pursuing the best for others; patiently, kindly, sacrificially and unconditionally. Now here is a simple way to remember 4 critical tools that solve 4 relationship crippling mistakes. Remember T F F C.

How do you deal with those past sins, mistakes, blunders, or even embarrassing moments? It is amazing how powerful those past situations can be when they are resurrected in your mind.

Tolerance and Love aren't the same thing, but people act like they are. In fact, the political correctness crowd uses tolerance as a weapon against truth, standards and boundaries. There is a blatant effort to use tolerance to move or erase the boundary between good and bad. Consequently, the sledgehammer of tolerance tries to expand the limits for bad behavior. But, worst of all, people talk as if tolerance and love are the same thing. Regardless of the revisionist thinking, those two words are...

If you want some extremely valuable and practical information for new blended families, this is it. It will help you develop the family that you want.

There is nothing simple about blended families or the effort needed to make them work well. Yet, too many couples start into this new family structure with bad thinking, myths and no goals or plans. Hopefully, you will be different.

Deborah got back into church and began growing in the Lord. She learned about godly marriages and relationships. So, it is no surprise that she thought about whether another marriage should or could be part of her future. Now she wondered, "What about remarriage? Is that acceptable to God?"

When your relationships are painful, your thoughts easily become "I want out of the pain!" Too often that means no interest in God's desire and His complete PERFECTION in your current situation! Getting out of relationship pain is understandable, but most often leads to bad choices. One such choice is divorce, which most often leads to the greater pain of broken families.