“Honey, how was school today?” “I told you – fine.” A friend of mine relayed this conversation, sad and frustrated. After listening to her teenage son grunt out a series of monosyllabic answers to her questions, this mom looked at him and just sighed in exasperation. She then backed up and tried again, this time…
Ladies, if you think crying when feeling unloved is an acceptable response during a relational conflict, would you be surprised to know that anger is often a man’s response to feeling disrespected during relational conflict? Pause and let that sink in. Before we clobber the guys about the need for Anger Management 101 let’s put…
Women don’t mind downsizing financially, if it means they get to spend more time with their husbands.
Don’t Freak Out! That advice seems so simple in theory, but if you have children – especially teens and tweens — it is pretty natural to react in a way that they interpret as ‘freaking out’, which shuts down lines of communication without you ever realizing it. I must have gotten 20 plus texts the other…
Struggling with depression in your marriage? Be encouraged with this article and know that you are not alone. One of my foundational teachings from my research is that we women want (and need) our husbands to love us even when we are unlovely, while men need us to respect them even when they may make…
Men want romance as much as women do, they just have different ideas about what romance is.
