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Reader Question of the Week: Drama King Husband
Every weekend I try to answer a Reader Question. Here’s one from a woman married to a “drama king”: My husband and I have a wonderful, loving marriage but have one major issue that we just can’t seem...
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Anger and the Measure of a Person
Every Friday my syndicated column appears in a bunch of newspapers in southeastern Ontario and Saskatchewan. This week’s column talks about anger and how it disguises itself. I have heard it said that...
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The Right Kind of Fight
Why is it that anger in marriage is so dangerous? Maybe we need to learn to have the right kind of fight! For twelve years I wrote a weekly syndicated slice-of-life column for several newspapers. I...
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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Today Rajdeep Paulus talks about how in marriage, we need to commit to staying in the fight with our spouses. There are rich rewards to be discovered! Standing at the ticket counter at Miami...
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Go to Your Room! Why Kids Should Hang Out in the Living Room Instead
For my column today I thought I’d rerun a Christmas column from a few years ago where I talked about computers in kids’ rooms. It goes along well with our discussion yesterday about protecting kids...
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The Right Kind of Fight
Why is it that anger in marriage is so dangerous? Maybe we need to learn to have the right kind of fight! For twelve years I wrote a weekly syndicated slice-of-life column for several newspapers. I...
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Reader Question: How Can I Love if My Spouse is Hurting Me?
How can I love my husband if he’s hurting me? How can I love my spouse if my spouse completely ticks me off? Every Monday I like to put up a Reader Question and take a stab at answering it. Today’s is...
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On Harvey Weinstein and Owning Someone Else’s Shame
I spent the summer when I was 18 as a camp counsellor. I had a group of four of us–two guys, and two girls–who hung out in the evenings when the kids were in bed (others were supervising!) and who did...
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The Main Reason People Annoy Us–and How to Stop It!
One of the reasons I love being a blogger is that I love telling people what to do. My downfall is that at times others do not seem to recognize the brilliance of my insight, but I console myself in...
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Porn and Anger: How Porn Use Stunts Emotional Growth
Porn and anger go together, because porn doesn’t just affect someone’s sex drive. Porn affects personality, too. Last weekend I was speaking in Edmonton at the Breakforth conference on a cold, dark,...
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The Podcast: No Wonder Abuse Victims Don’t Speak Up!
A few weeks ago I deleted a podcast I did for Domestic Violence Awareness Month. In it, I told a story of something that happened to me when I was 18, and I was raged at in public. I tried to tell a...
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Handling Anger in Marriage: Understanding the Iceberg
Many marriages are plagued by anger, and yelling matches or big angry outbursts. People will often say, “I have a temper problem” or “he has an anger problem.” As we finish up our series on emotional...
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Is It Way Too Easy for Your Husband to Push Your Buttons? Why We Get So...
Anger is often a secondary emotion. So we need to ask: What’s going on below the surface? We’re wrapping up our emotional maturity series with a look at anger. Yesterday I was talking about how anger...
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Reader Question: When Does Anger Become Abuse?
How can you tell if your husband has anger management issues, or if he’s actually abusive? I’m starting a series on the blog this month on direct communication, and yesterday we looked at what hinders...
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Do You Need to Get Angry at What Purity Culture Stole from You?
Anger is not always a bad thing–and some of us would benefit from a bit of it! i’m just back from a weekend knitting retreat with my mom. About 60 knitters gathered at an inn close to where I live for...
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