Browsing "Family Issues"
Acts of Love That Last Beyond a Lifetime
By Susan Doktor Few things are as devastating to imagine as the death of a loving partner. Worse still may be the anguish of picturing the pain your partner will suffer living without you. But as difficult as it is to […]
Dinner Conversation Starters
Download your free Dinner Conversation Starters. Whether 2 or 200 around the table, stimulate conversation and learn more about each other. IDEA: cut into strips, fold and place in basket. Pass the basket around the table for each person to […]
Supporting Your Spouse Through Addiction and Recovery
By Dr. Sarah Toler, CNM, DNP www.addictions.com Coming soon: Online Relationship Academy https://close-companions.teachable.com Being married to a person who is addicted to alcohol or drugs is hard. When you entered into a marriage, you did so with the expectation of always putting each other […]
Love Your Partner More
by Belinda Luscombe Time Magazine May 20, 2019 Parents’ love for their children can make them do peculiar things. Like staying up until 1:00 am gluing glitter on a second-grade class project. Or driving 40 miles to deliver a single soccer cleat. […]
Raising Socially Competent Kids
By Gary Chapman and Arlene Pellicane No doubt you have seen your kids with their eyes glued to a computer screen, television or mobile device. And you may have wondered how technology is affecting them. The moving pictures on television, in […]
Surviving Well-Intentioned (Overbearing) In-Laws
by Malini Bhatia www.marriage.com I didn’t just gain a husband when I got married. I gained his entire family. I’ve heard people say they didn’t marry the family, they married the man. I suppose I’m a little confused at that statement, as […]
Paul and Peggy: Dealing Gracefully with Step Parenting, Cancer, and Unemployment
When it rains it pours. Paul and Peggy, married 40 years, stuck together as a team when many couples would have fallen apart when his kids said "Your not my mother!", through Peggy's breast cancer and Paul's periods of unemployment. […]
