Dear Shaunti: My husband and I haven’t been married very long, and I am scared about something. We have never fought much, but just had our first horrible argument. I was expecting him to “make up” with a hug or something, but he wouldn’t. Instead, he mumbled something about needing to run errands, grabbed his…
A Zero-Divorce Pre-Marital Program: A great case study for churches and couples A few months back, Jeff and I came across a highly successful model of pre-marital preparation at a church in a small town in Michigan; after seventeen years, among couples who were getting married for the first time, not one had since gotten…
For all current information about The 30-Day Kindness Challenge, including Shaunti’s new book The Kindness Challenge, please click here. So today is a big day for some of us. It is Valentine’s Day… and for those who have been doing the 30-Day Kindness Challenge it is also Day 30! For those of you who were planning…
Dear Shaunti: I just got married to a great guy who has always loved my inquisitive, problem-solving nature. Or at least he used to. Lately, he has been getting more and more annoyed with it. He shuts down so easily. Or if I ask a simple question he acts as if it is the ultimate…
For all current information about The 30-Day Kindness Challenge, including Shaunti’s new book The Kindness Challenge, please click here. Today is Day 30 for the 30-Day Kindness Challenge! For those of you who were planning on a gift journal… do you have it ready to give to your spouse? Putting all your affirming comments in print will be…
Dear Shaunti, My oldest son is having a tough first year of high school – leaving his old friends, trying to make new ones, and dealing with some unfair teachers. I’m thankful that at least he’s talking to us about these struggles (I was worried that he wouldn’t) but when he explains the latest issue,…
