I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
Many children go to school ill-prepared to learn because they are not emotionally ready to learn. Children need to reach appropriate emotional levels of maturity before they are able to learn effectiv...
Sometimes our words are saying one thing, but our tone of voice is saying another. We are sending double messages. Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the wor...
Mark Twain once said, I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Discipline is not a negative word. It comes from the Greek word to train.
Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. None of us is perfect. In marriage we do not always do the right thing. We have sometimes done and said hurtful things to our...
Love won’t allow you to bear burdens alone. — Tina Givens —
Remember, emotions themselves are neither good nor bad. They are simply our psychological responses to the events of life.
Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement,...
As the instinctual nature of the bird dictates the building of a nest, so the instinctual nature of the in-love experience pushes us to do outlandish and unnatural things for each other.
Psychologist William James said that possibly the deepest human need is the need to feel appreciated.
In fact, true love cannot begin until the in-love experience has run its course.
A relationship calls for sympathetic listening with a view to understanding the other person’s thoughts, feelings, and desires.
Many people mess up every new day with what happened yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures of yesterday, and in so doing pollute a potentially wonderful day. When bitterness, rese...
Welcome to the real world of marriage, where hairs are always on the sink and little white spots cover the mirror, where arguments center on which way the toilet paper comes off and whether the lid sh...
The best thing we can do with the failures of the past is to let them be history.
Material things are no replacement for human, emotional love.
Some parents find the idea of asking permission to share their perspective ridiculous, or even offensive. Why should I have to ask my teen permission to speak? one father asked. The question is not wh...
He dreams of buying a new car, but she flatly says, We can’t afford it.
Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.
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