Am I Depressed?

When it comes to Father’s Day, do you find yourself devoting all of your attention to helping your kids celebrate dad? Maybe this means supervising the making of homemade cards, grocery shopping, and preparing a bacon-centric breakfast in bed, or coming up with Pinteresting gift ideas. There’s no question that we moms need to encourage…

We can pick our friends, our lovers, and our spouses, but we cannot pick our family. They don’t even pick us, per se. Parents often plan to have children, but they don’t choose which one. They can’t. There’s no prize machine where they insert a quarter, then use a metallic claw to pick out their…

Lately, I have been seeing a significant emphasis on birth order on social media as well as in personal conversations with friends and acquaintances. The common standpoint they come to is that the oldest sibling has it the hardest. While I can understand the sentiment, and for some families, this might be true, we don’t…

The first step toward improving or enhancing your marriage is to understand what happens when relationships fail. This has been well documented by extensive research into couples that were not able to save their marriages. Learning about their failures can prevent your relationship from making the same mistakes — or rescue it if it already…

One of my favorite Bible passages for relationships is James 3:17, which says, “But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.”  The New King James Version replaces the word “submissive” with the phrase “willing to yield,” which paints…

Most importantly, it is critical to cling to our faith in togetherness. Emotions are deceptive, unpredictable, and often irrational. If we rely on our emotions—or lack of—to get us through the grieving process, we have short-changed ourselves and thus, short-changed our partner. This is a time when you can come together around central truths from…