If a marriage is having issues, something big needs to change. Trying continually and not achieving any results can be exhausting. Here we’ll teach you how to take care of the big issue so that the little issues won’t keep popping up. Kim and I had been married for about ten years and I was on my way home from a marriage counseling session one evening. I always appreciated the...
123 Magic: How to Agree on Raising and Disciplining Kids Back when Kim and I were foster parents, they trained us in the “123 Magic” method of child-rearing. The agency didn’t allow foster children to be spanked and offered us this alternative, which we learned a lot from! Kids Need Consequences There is a difference between punishment and consequence. If your child has been told not to touch the hot...
Question: What are some effective ways to communicate when you're upset and not ready to talk about it yet (needing cool off time or time to understand your own feelings before talking about them)? Great question. Who hasn’t had this experience, yet it can be difficult to address the issue. We love our spouse, but we feel like we just don’t want to talk about it right now. Here...
Where do I start when it comes to being the spouse I need to be? There are some essential things we can do and be to make sure we are on track. The fundamentals will always be the fundamentals, and if we learn to embrace them, a lot of other things will fall into place. Have an Attitude of Learning It’s easy to study for the purpose of learning...
Marriage is about commitment. This is something that we have probably all struggled with at one time or another in our marriage. Did I sign up for this rodeo? We believe that by pledging our allegiance to our spouse and keeping it at the forefront of our marriage, our commitment will be strengthened and grow through the years. “I pledge allegiance, to the flag…” We all know how that...
What’s your Christian walk like… really? Have you ever wondered what your witness looks like to God? In this story-lesson let’s see what we look like. Hopefully, this story will stay with you as it has me and be a constant reminder of what you need to be striving for in your relationships with God, your spouse and others. In college, we had a class called The Learning Process. Our...
Do you think it’s hard to know if you’re in God’s will? When we stop and think about it, God doesn't ask us to give up anything that won’t kill us… either spiritually, mentally or physically. What if there was an easy test to see if we are submitting to God or not? What if it were as simple as 1,2 3? If we hear a Biblical truth and run...
This topic brings me to an area of married life that I find common, yet ungodly. Often people believe that marriage is something that needs to be endured like an ongoing pain. They tell jokes about it and infer that the opposite sex is a force to be reckoned with. The problem with this is that we hit what we look at. Kim and I both have motorcycle endorsements...
Mitch & Kim’s Q & A Here’s a question we received. How can we effectively communicate when one person is so much more talkative? I want to share with my wife things from my day, but at the same time, I’m not very talkative, and she is, so it seems like a lot of our conversations aren’t exactly that, but more of a lecture in the sense it’s a one-sided...
Do you feel that you sometimes waste time and energy communicating? Sometimes we just don’t click or understand each other. Here we will connect you with 7 shortcuts to better your communication. What’s a buzzword? A buzzword is a simple word or statement spoken without emotion (possibly at a time you may feel like getting emotional about something,). It can diffuse a situation. Buzzwords can also make something that is...
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