Where My Heart Is
Of all my blog posts, this is the one that most shows where my heart is for this ministry.
Tag: heart
Okay, God. Let’s Do This Thing
Be still, my soul; the Lord is on thy side; Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain; Leave to thy God to order and …
Reflections of the Heart
It wasn’t a change in my approach to sex that changed our marriage. Sex was a problem in our marriage, but it wasn’t THE problem. …
Is It Manipulation? Motive Matters
Men sometimes talk about women playing games and being manipulative. Most of the time, I think they assume it is manipulation because they don’t understand …
Let’s Pray for Our Husbands
Big Guy has had a difficult few months, with several challenging situations blasting into him, one thing after another with hardly a chance in between …
At the Heart of Change
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of …
Deal with Your Feelings
Deal with your feelings to bring healing to you and your marriage.
A Wife’s Heart: A Colloquy (#3)
The third leg of my conversation with CSL at The Curmudgeonly Librarian is posted today. CSL set a trap, and I leapt right in. …
A Wife’s Heart: A Colloquy (#2)
In the second segment of my on-going conversation with CSL at The Curmudgeonly Librarian, we discuss whether spouses should have sex when they’re upset, …
A Wife’s Heart
And now for something completely different . . . or not. I write for women, not for men—most of the time. While most of my …
Your Husband’s Healing
If sex has been a source of tension in your marriage, it’s likely to take a while to restore your sexual relationship to a …
Are Romance Novels Okay for Christian Women?
In A Shaded View of Romance, I stated that sexy novels are comparable to porn: They create unrealistic expectations (of both relationships and sex). …
What If It Isn’t Getting Better?
You’ve done lots of work to turn things around, but your marriage doesn’t seem to be getting any better. You wonder why you even bothered with all that effort. What’s going on—and is there anything you can do?
I ♥ My Baby Daddy
For many years in our marriage, my husband and I seemed to be at odds rather than on the same team. I didn’t always feel …
In the Raw
Crossroads in marriage sometimes are obvious; other times we don’t realize until after the fact that we made a decision that shaped the trajectory of our marriage. In the rawness of those moments, it isn’t always easy to see where we are going. In this post I share parts of a message I wrote to Big Guy during one of those raw moments when I was approaching what would turn out to be a crossroads.