My marriage seems to be falling apart. What advice do you have? The Reality The standard approach to marriage counseling is to teach husbands and wives how to revitalize unhealthy relationships and help them work through their conflicts. Unfortunately, suchRead more…
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The Lausanne Global Conversation was an online platform for connecting participants in the Lausanne Movement's Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, South Africa (Cape Town 2010) before, during and after the Congress.
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Improve Communication with Your Spouse
What can a husband and wife do to improve their communication? The solution requires compromise that should begin, I believe, with the man. Under Mosaic law, a newlywed husband had a specific responsibility to “cheer up his wife which heRead more…
More About Wives Communicating with Husbands
I’ve talked and talked to my husband about how I’m different from him and how I need him to be sensitive to my needs. Somehow, he just doesn’t “hear” it. I’ve also gotten mad at him about a hundred times.Read more…
How Wives Can Communicate with Husbands
My husband is somewhat insensitive to my needs, but I believe he is willing to do better if I can teach him how I am different from him. Can you help me communicate my needs to him effectively? Perhaps IRead more…
How to Show Your Spouse Respect
I heard you talk in your Life on the Edge video series about something you called the “line of respect” between a husband and wife. Would you explain that again? Yes. It involves a system of accountability to keep aRead more…
Differing Assumptions Cause Marital Conflict
My wife and I sometimes get into fights when neither of us really wants to argue. I’m not even sure how it happens. We just find ourselves locking horns and then feeling bad about it later. Why can’t we getRead more…
Healthy Conflict in Marriage
You have said that every healthy married couple should learn how to fight. What do you mean by that? What I have said is that people need to learn how to fight fair, because there is a big difference betweenRead more…
Husband Emotionally Unresponsive
What advice would you give to a woman whose husband just won’t respond to her emotionally? That’s my situation. Darrell is a good man, but he’s not romantic, and he’d rather keep his thoughts to himself. How can I dealRead more…
Lack of Communication in Marriage
When my husband and I were dating, we could talk for hours about anything and everything. Now that we’re married, we go out to dinner and have nothing to say to each other. What has gone wrong? Richard just keepsRead more…
Dr. Dobson’s Principles of Marriage
Someone observed, “Values are not taught to our children; they are ‘caught’ by them.” —Straight Talk to Men, p. 64 Guard your family relationships against erosion as though you were defending your very lives. —Love for a Lifetime, p. 111Read more…