Dear Shaunti, In the last few months, it has gotten so hard for my teenage daughter to talk to me. I learn everything from listening to her tell her friends. Yesterday I overheard her telling a friend about being a finalist in a writing contest at school. When I asked her about it, she said…
I’m thrilled to be on TBN’s Praise the Lord show tonight at 10 pm ET/9CT– and this show is definitely not your momma’s TBN! Hosted by a Lifeway leader, Ed Stetzer, we were rockin’ out with Francesca Battistelli, the For King & Country guys, teaching pastor Kyle Idleman of one of the largest churches in…
Dear Shaunti, I love my wife, but it drives me crazy when she obsesses over something minor, like whether she forgot to send in the money for our son’s field trip, or whether her friend is mad at her because she didn’t return a call. I’ve tried to get her to see that it is…
Author note: This is one of a series giving a sneak peek into what I discovered about what makes happy marriages so happy! After years of nationally-representative research with more than 1,000 couples, I reveal the twelve most important little habits in The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages: The Little Things That Make a…
After a brutal 2013 (way too many deadlines and too much travel), our family was really REALLY looking forward to the working vacation we had this past week. Jeff and I had a speaking engagement on a week long marriage cruise to the Caribbean. (Suffering for Jesus.)  We brought the kids with us, spoke several…
Dear Shaunti, My husband and I have been getting irritated with each other lately. He said that I don’t appreciate him, which is ridiculous because I do! But he said that I never thank him for things like taking out the trash or mowing the lawn. Why should I thank him for doing something that’s his job? …
