When Your Relationship Feels Hopeless: Eight Ways to Find Hope Again
On the other hand, if all your friends are either single or unhappily married, they may have more of an influence on you than you realize. The problem with venting to friends is that they only hear your side of the story. They will usually take your side and magnify your spouse's faults. They may encourage you to leave if you're "not happy." All of this negative feedback can go a long way toward feeding your discouragement. So try to have more positive voices in your life who encourage your partnership.
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Two Tips for Forgiveness
Hey, do you have trouble forgiving your ex-partner? I have been there, too. Here are a couple of quick tips for getting to the place of forgiveness. Find the tips in the video below. (I apologize for the poor video quality.)
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Forgive Them — For They Know Not
Hi everyone! I wanted to republish a post that I did last Good Friday, with a few minor changes. I hope you are all doing well today and I hope you have a wonderful weekend.Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.–Matthew 6:12
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How Marriage Counseling Can Give You Hope
A marriage counsellor can help give us hope by being a mediator between us and helping us to understand each other. Marriage counselling can help get us past the things that bind us to our past and hurt.Seven years ago, a marriage counsellor gave my husband and me a second chance when she took us under her wings and helped us sort the mess that was our relationship. We were fighting all the time and the first sessions with her were volatile but with infinite patience, she helped us find the love that was hiding underneath the strife and hurt.
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We Dream of Marriage — An Excerpt
Hi everyone! I hope you are having a good week. The last month of my life has been spent getting ready for and then directing Vacation Bible School. It has been a crazy amount of work and a crazy amount of fun. For this week, I have published an excerpt from the book I just recently wrote, Second Marriage: An Insider’s Guide to Hope, Healing & Love. One of the hard parts about a second marriage can be accepting that your “original dreams” did not come true. You did stay “live happily ever after” with the person in your first marriage. If your partner was married before, you are not their first wife or husband.
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Second Marriage Tip #3: Let Go Of The Past
The third piece of advice in this ongoing second marriage tip series is “let go of the past.” This is a series of quick tips designed to help you in your marriage.Many marriages break up when they cannot see past all the hurt in their history.Not letting go means that we use the past as a filter in how we view the present. We will interpret our partner’s actions by things that happened to us in our last relationship.
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Marriage Counseling Saved Our Marriage
Have you considered marriage counselling? If you haven’t, I would urge to consider doing so. Going to a marriage counsellor can be a bit scary, but there can also be tremendous benefits.Our Experience with a CounsellorFirst, let me say that I believe marriage counselling saved my marriage.
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