“Why does my husband seem so ‘fragile’?” The words hung there on the jumbo screens during a live, interactive segment of a marriage conference I led with Jeff last year. Other audience members typed similar anonymous questions, which popped up onto the screen in real-time: The audience skewed pretty young (probably 90% were in their…
Today’s blog is for the guys, and trust me you’ll thank me for years to come. I’m going to help you decode your wife’s most baffling behavior. Have you ever wondered why your wife: Here’s what running underneath. Our nationally representative research for For Men Only revealed that your wife may have a deep, underlying…
For Women Only has a big birthday this month, and it feels like a good moment to look back and reflect on all that God has done. I’ll be honest, never in my wildest dreams did I think this book would succeed like it did—and help marriages succeed like they did. Twenty years and 1.7…
This is the final part of a four-part series on how to root out the pattern called “learned helplessness” from our life and relationships. In part 1and part 2, we explored what learned helplessness is, and what it might look like in our lives. In part 3, we shared the first two (of six) steps…
This is part 3 of a four-part series on how to root out the pattern called “learned helplessness” from our life and relationships. In part 1 we explored what learned helplessness is, and in part 2 we used a marriage example to examine what it might look like in our lives. This week and next,…
This is part 2 of a four-part series on how to root out a sneaky pattern called “learned helplessness” from our life and relationships. In part 1 , we described what this dynamic is and is not. In this part 2, we will look at how it tends to work in real life. In parts…
