For this week's paid subscribers, I'm sharing an entire (and long) chapter that had to be omitted from Making Your Marriage a Fortress. Editors weren't concerned about the quality, but it …
Emotional Attachment after Betrayal
The head of a counseling center texted me to say that while he was enjoying the entire book, he would be recommending Making Your Marriage a Fortress to clients and fellow counselors for the sake of …
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The Right Obsession
During a 2015 performance of the Broadway play Hand to God, a young member of the audience became alarmed when he realized his cell phone was about to run out of power. He noticed an outlet …
Why Cross Fit Might Be More Dangerous for Your Marriage than Facebook
Fifteen years ago, there was a lot of debate about “friending” old boyfriends and girlfriends on Facebook. I heard many tales (I don’t know how many were verified) of old boyfriends and girlfriends …
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By Degrees
To make your marriage a fortress against this common challenge of busyness, it’s crucial to remember that relational estrangement happens slowly, by degrees. Shortly before I turned fifty, I moved to …
Head and Heart
There’s sadly a strain of faith that discounts “head knowledge” as inferior to heart change. The Bible doesn’t put one over the other and neither should we. Peter urges us to “grow in the …