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Developing Strength in a Destructive Marriage
Happy Monday Friends, I decided I needed the weekend off. NO writing. No working. You know what I did instead? I threw out about months of old catalogues that have accumulated. I shopped for Christmas. I ate out. I pulled all my spring and summer flowers out of their vases and thought about what to replace them with that looked…
You Matter To God
Dear Friends, Woohoo, the book is done! Well not exactly done, I still have to get all my end notes and appendices in order but its as done as its going to be today. I worked so hard all weekend I think I’m going to have curvature of my spine from hunching over my computer for 12 hours each day.…
Setting Boundaries, Entitlement Thinking and Demanding Respect
Hi Friends, Thank you for all your helpful comments on how the church can be more helpful in situations of abuse and destructive marriages. I am on the final stretches of writing this book and I am very excited to see how God is shaping it and putting it all together. I do not think you’ll be disappointed. I…
Dealing With A Self-Centered Spouse
Good Monday Morning friends, I have been crazy busy this week and I deeply appreciate your prayers. I’ve been doing grandma duty all week taking care of three little girls and their mama plus working on my new book. I’m flying home Monday but wanted to let you know how much…
Should I Leave or Should I Stay?
Hi Friends, I’m in sunny California helping my daughter with her new baby Natalia and the other two grandbabies, Amaya and Leilani. She has her hands full with three under three years old. It’s exhausting just to be there for a few hours, but so much fun. I’m especially enjoying Amaya as she remembers us from our last visit and…
How Have You Been Taught to Make Nice and Pretend?
Morning friends, We’re bracing for Hurricane Sandy. Schools, businesses, and most other places are closed. My son has come to help me as my husband is in sunny California helping my daughter who just had her third baby. Yesterday he said he felt a slight earthquake shake him out of bed. I’m in the last legs of finishing up my…
Is Marital Indifference Emotionally Abusive?
Bill Welte and me at America’s Keswick Hi Friends, Thanks for all your prayers. I just finished a fabulous weekend women’s event at America’s Keswick and now I am on the home stretch of writing to finish this new book on Destructive Marriages. Please continue to pray, I have much to…
My Husband Says His Verbal Abuse is All My Fault
Morning friends, I’m sending this from the airport in Tortola, British Virgin Islands where I’ve had an awesome weekend keynoting at the Love Does Not Hurt Conference. Agape Total Life Center partnered with the Office of…
Today, I’m Asking You Some Questions
Morning friends, I’m deep in book writing mode right now and invite you to read a short excerpt answering the question, Is Marital Indifference Emotionally Abusive? It will be posted by Thursday on www.christiancounseling.com I hope you check it out. My two day interview entitled, “Finding Freedom from Destructive Relationships” with Focus on the Family is scheduled to air Wednesday,…