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How To Deal With A Toxic Relationship If you want to know what a toxic relationship is, or how to deal with it, I’m here to help. Right now, there are so many different opinions and thoughts about toxic relationships. Because of this, I want to approach this topic carefully. I’m going to...

What To Do When Your Spouse Files For Divorce If your spouse files for divorce, you might feel lost and confused, not knowing what to do. You might be devastated, angry, or overwhelmed by emotions. Maybe you’re even questioning, “Why should I even try to save my marriage?” The majority of...

3 Reasons To End An Affair If you’re reading this article, you may be thinking about ending your affair. But on the other hand, you might be thinking, “There’s no way on earth. I’m not about to end this thing. I’m happier than I’ve ever been.” I still ask that you listen to these three...

3 Steps To Really Understand Your Wife If you really want to understand your wife better than you do now- or if you want your husband to better understand you than the way he does now- there are three steps that men need to take. To start, there’s a difference in the way that men and women...

3 Step Plan To Get Your Ex Back If you want to know what you can do to get your ex back, then this is for you. Whether you’re separated or divorced, I’m going to teach you a three-step formula you can follow in order to do the best things you can do to get your ex back. Even if you’re not...

3 Ways To End An Affair If you’re currently in an affair, or if you know somebody who is, these three things will be extremely important to you. If you are in an affair and deeply, emotionally connected to the other person, these three things still work if you do them. You might be...

How The Loss Of A Loved One Affects A Marriage With David Mathews My wife and I founded Spark Of Life, a grief recovery ministry. We work with thousands of people devastated by loss. We work with many couples who experienced the devastating loss of a child and we work with couples where one...

7 Signs NO CONTACT Is Ruining Your Life If you’ve been trying NO CONTACT and feel stuck, confused, or don’t even know what to do next this is for you. First of all, No Contact is not the best thing that you should do for your marriage. More times than not, it’s going to ruin your chances of...

Kimberly Holmes: When you have a spouse that’s cheating, it can be completely overwhelming because you don’t even know where to start. The questions to ask. Your heart is hurting. You’re scared. There are so many emotions that go into that. Kimberly Holmes: Two of the main questions that...

The TRUTH About “No Contact” So, you stopped contacting your spouse. And now you’re trying this thing called “No Contact” to try and get your spouse back. You’re trying it to get them to see what they’re missing. You hope that they’ll want you back and that they will come crawling back to...

Where do we get our notions of what sex is like? One place is screen sex—movies, TV, videos that show couples engaged in hot and heavy lovemaking. But screen sex is pretend sex. It involves special lighting, camera angles, makeup and wardrobe, choreography, and acting. If we get the idea that...

I’ve had a lot of feedback lately from spouses resentful about the lack of sex in their marriage. At times, it’s pushback about my lack of sympathy or understanding for their heartache. Truth is, I don’t know what it’s like to walk in your shoes. However, I do know that ongoing rejection...

Last week, Julie Sibert of Intimacy in Marriage posted on 3 Must Haves to Make Your Bedroom a Sex Haven. The post was inspired by a text conversation Chris Taylor (of The Forgiven Wife) and I had with Julie on blogging ideas. Within her great post, she then challenged Chris and me to write about...

Actually, I do convey to lower interest spouses that they should have sex with their higher interest mates. I wholeheartedly believe that sex is good for a marriage, a gift from God that expresses and fosters intimacy. But I have received numerous messages over the years—primarily from men but...

My best friend in 7th grade had a brother with muscular dystrophy. He was confined to a wheelchair, got moved in and out of the bathtub and bed by his father, and had a pretty girlfriend. At first, I wondered why a teen girl would want to carry her boyfriend’s books while he wheeled his way to...

I’ve been hearing more and more from spouses refused sex for a long time in their marriage. They are understandably disheartened and frustrated, but some are also angry. Not just angry with their spouses, but angry with me and other Christians for letting their spouse off the hook. What they...

Many contend that regular sex in marriage keeps a spouse from cheating. Is that true? Can regular sex prevent an affair? Some have gone so far as to say that regular sex “affair-proofs” a marriage. I don’t buy that. We are responsible for ourselves. Day by day, we each decide to fulfill our...

Why don’t you want sex? Or why doesn’t your spouse want sex? Many marriages struggle with that question, and the short answer is that there are good reasons why someone might not desire sex in their marriage. While your experience is individual, here are seven common reasons why a spouse...

While some singles should not be reading this blog, plenty do and find at Hot, Holy & Humorous more authentic, biblical, and specific advice than they’ve previously experienced in Christian circles. It’s nice to see so many singles attempting to prepare their hearts and minds for their future...

My parents had a terrible marriage. This is not news, since their divorce is public record. But recently, I’ve been contemplating once again the example I grew up with. Let’s just say they didn’t set me up well to address issues in my own marriage. You can probably relate. Some of you had...