How To Save Your Marriage and Break The Negative Cycles Of Divorce

January 12, 2010

A Problem With My Fence It was time. We had moved into our house seventeen years before. Then, everything was new… including the fence I was about to repair. A neighbor had stopped by that morning and was concerned that one of our two dogs was able to push a fence board aside and stick [...]

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Save Your Marriage By Building A Fence

January 12, 2010

The Fence Problem When we bought our house everything was new. Our house sat on a corner lot and was bordered by three streets. The tract developer told us when we landscaped not to change the grade of our backyard. On our side of the street, a natural drainage had been engineered throughout the tract [...]

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Save Your Marriage Resources for Blended Families

January 11, 2010

I was in Canada working with a new church when I met Rich and Lynette. Both had families from previous marriages. Through a series of events they found each other, started dating, and I eventually had the privilege of performing their wedding ceremony. After the two of them became one, it was the two families [...]

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More Save Your Marriage Secrets — 7 Rules For A Good Fight!

December 31, 2009

Can there be a “good” fight? Actually… YES! Leslie Horvitz, a professional marriage counselor, has written, “Researchers have found that couples who have stopped confronting each other, who have basically declared a sullen cease fire and… manage to live with each other (the way that the U.S. ‘lived’ with the old Soviet Union), but who [...]

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Save Your Marriage By Breaking Free From Past Norms

December 30, 2009

Men love to fix things. It is considered normal in our culture for a man to attack a problem and do something to fix it. It is not considered normal, for a man to consider how he feels about the problem. And yet, for excellent marriage health, to communicate with your spouse in a way [...]

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