Marriage: Building Lifelong Friendship with Your Spouse
Learning to Gel: Building Lifelong Friendship in your Marriage I grew up on “Jell-O”. It’s that rather inexpensive gelatin that comes in a variety of flavors and colors. Looking back,…
Marriage: When Your Marriage Hits the Ditch
The conditions for the journey weren’t looking good as the air between them was cooling to an icy chill. Instability and uncertainty reflected long miles of bad road relationally. It’s…
Marriage: Ripe for the Picking—The Top 10 Signs of Vulnerability to an Extra-Marital Affair
“Ripe for the picking” are words that describe fruit on a tree that is perfectly ready to be taken and devoured immediately – fresh, enticing, and delicious. The same concept…
Parenting: SEX TALK Part 5—The Top Ways to Protect Your Kids from Predators
Coach them early on what is good touch and bad touch. Discuss healthy personal, relational, emotional and sexual boundaries. While we want to encourage our children to be expressive and…
Marriage: Respecting the Laws of Relational Equilibrium
Is Your Marriage Teetering in the Balance? Respecting the Laws of Relational Equilibrium One fond childhood memory surrounds the pleasure of mastering the teeter-totter. It’s the playground apparatus that involves…
Parenting: Adjusting to an Empty Nest
Q & A with Dr. Dave and Donalyn Currie Q: “After 25 years of our world revolving around our kids, the last one is about to move out. Do you…
Marriage: The Merging of Lives in Marriage
How Do Two Become One in Scheduling? Our first fight was on the very first weekend home after our honeymoon. It was all about scheduling. I had made an assumption…
Marriage: Escalating Domestic Violence in Marriage
When All Hell is Breaking Loose…A Marital Game Plan When Facing Escalating Domestic Violence If you are reading this, you are likely facing some significant pressures in your most important…
Parenting: SEX TALK Part 3—Covering the Key Sexual Topics
Here are the Top 40 Topics to discuss with your child in your Pre-Teen Sex Talk. Recognize that though you may not cover all of these issues in one sitting,…
Parenting: SEX TALK Part 2—Framing Your Discussion on Sexuality
Understanding the Coat Rack of Sexual Truth As a parent, you are seeking to build a “coat rack” of truth that will be the life framework for each of your…
Parenting: Creating Memorable Family Vacations
Q & A with Dr. Dave and Donalyn Currie Some of my best childhood memories are from our family vacations, but now that I have a family of my…
Parenting: Snapshots of Fatherhood
Life often comes down to collection of snapshots in an album. They don’t tell the whole story; so much goes on between each captured Kodak moment. But photos, like memories,…
Marriage: Closeness—The Fourth Pillar of an Amazing Marriage
Closeness—The Fourth Pillar of an Amazing Marriage A great sex life: we all want it. And, judging by what we see in the movies, we’ve all got it. But we…
Marriage: Companionship—The Third Pillar of an Amazing Marriage
Companionship—The Third Pillar of an Amazing Marriage The Pleasure of Friendship We’ve all heard it said that you want to marry your best friend. It’s an assumption that we all…
Parenting: SEX TALK Part 1—Preparing for the Pre-Teen “Sex Talk”
BE INTENTIONAL AS PARENTS Don’t make excuses and keep delaying the inevitable. Big deal if you are fearful. It has never been easy for any generation to share what is…