You kid just went “no contact.” It’s any parent’s nightmare. This week on the I Wish You Could Hear This podcast, we unpack the “no contact” phenomenon, taking an honest look at both sides of this intensely painful equation. If you’re the parents of an adult child who has severed contact, you’re likely blindsided and…
Oh, to be newlyweds again. (And all the long-marrieds just collectively sighed a happy sigh.) The early years are exciting years! Full of planning, promise, and … pitfalls. Didn’t see that last one coming, did you? Googly-eyed at the altar, many young married couples don’t either. In this article and the next one we’re going…
What if everything had to die so your marriage could live? Like, literally your house burned down, your career crashed down, and your finances broke down. But your marriage made it. This is the story of this week’s podcast guests, our friends Montell and Kristin Jordan. Some of you are remembering the 90s R&B hit…
The speaker life is fun and sometimes … funny. There was the time I packed only sandals and short sleeves for a February women’s event in Arizona. What I didn’t know was that although I was flying into Phoenix (which was 70 degrees and sunny) the retreat was in Flagstaff (where it was 28 degrees…
Do you have a sex mismatch in your marriage? One of you wants more sex than the other, and pressure, hurt feelings, or expectations kind of ripple as an undercurrent to your relationship? Maybe you’ve even made this assumption: My spouse just has a lower desire for sex. Or even worse: My spouse doesn’t desire…
As parents we’ve all been there. Our child melts down in Target and we’re just trying to calm the hysterics, pay for our cosmetics and ibuprofen (it’s no wonder we need the latter), and make it out alive. Or our tween’s big worries and big feelings come at bedtime—the night before our big presentation at…
