Category Archives: 5. Beginning to Thrive Again
Why You Need to Forgive One Last Person
As “good Christian women” most of us strive to forgive everyone, including the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. Sometimes it’s a struggle, but we know that it is what God would have us do. There is one person, however, that seldom makes our Need-to-Forgive-list. Unfortunately, it is probably the single MOST important person…
He Will Lift Us Out of the Mire
Sometimes life is hard. Struggles come in massive waves that threaten to consume us. We get overwhelmed. We wonder if we can even keep slogging along. I think I’ve mentioned that my husband and I have been walking through a very dark valley for most of the last year. It’s been unrelenting. We’ve been hit…
The Wrong Way to Get Value
Many of us have been told that we are codependent. It doesn’t feel very complimentary, but what does it really mean? The truth is, unless they are in recovery, themselves, most spouses of addicts are codependent. There is something about the very nature of addiction that turns those around it into victims of the disease.…
Can Trust Be Restored After Porn?
You’ve probably all heard sermons and marriage seminars that talked about the respect and love passage in Ephesians 5:33. The big quandary for many of us is how we can possibly live out those words when our husband is involved in unrespectable sexual behaviors that make us feel anything but loved. Both men and women…
The Way Back from the Nightmare
Have you ever wished that your husband’s problem was just a bad dream? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to wake up to life the way it was before any of this nightmare came to light? Unfortunately, those kind of instant plot resolutions only happen in TV movies. In real life many resolutions, including this one, come…
What Every Wife Should Know . . .
