Tip #54: When you’re seeing the negative in your spouse, avoid people who pile on – and spend time with encouragers instead While I was in the middle of my research for The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages I ran across an old friend who was in a difficult place with her husband of 20 years….
Dear Shaunti: My husband is great at many things, but sometimes he struggles with getting a new task accomplished. Like, he’s great at carpentry, but it might take him two or three days to figure out how to create a new type of bookcase I want for the kids’ bedroom. But when I offer an opinion…
Shaunti is sharing part of her special, private family life with you, her readers, today. These are the prayers her kids wrote and gave her on Mother’s Day. From Shaunti’s 15-year-old daughter: Thank you so much for loving me and caring for me. Thank you for praying for me every night before I go to…
Dear Shaunti, Since sex is so important to my husband, and since you say it’s really about a man feeling desired by his wife, what can I do to get engaged and interested instead of just “accommodating” him? I know that just “going along with it” would be pretty depressing for him. But to be…
Hi friends, colleagues, and prayer partners: I’m having that outpatient eye surgery at 8 am ET tomorrow, and would sure love your prayers for not only the procedure itself but – just as important – a successful recovery during my eye heals properly and with NO PAIN. As many of you know, my eye injury…
Dear Shaunti, You’re the researcher, so please tell me the real answer: How often do guys need to have sex? I just don’t think about sex much; I guess it isn’t a need for me. But my husband says he thinks about it all the time, and he gets crabby that I’m often too tired….