Podcast – Technology’s Attack on Marriage: Finding Wise Digital Boundaries

The DFR team discusses the damage that the digital world can have on marriage and how to set up boundaries to keep your marriage safe. Technology’s Attack on Marriage – Finding Wise Digital Boundaries   http://traffic.libsyn.com/doingfamilyright/DFR71.m4a Podcast #71: Technology’s Attack on Marriage – Finding Wise Digital Boundaries   Originally posted on the DFR page HERE.  Follow this link to hear our podcast discussing the needed boundaries in our kids’ lives. 

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Podcast – What Happens to Our Relationship When the Butterflies of Love Die?

What happens to our relationship with the Butterflies of love die? Is it over – or is it part of the cycle of relationships? And can we get them back?   Join us on the DFR podcast as we discuss where to go from here – and if what “dead butterflies” mean for our relationships.     For Dave’s article on the same topic click here. or in my blog…

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3 Reasons Doing “Devotions” with Your Spouse is Difficult and 6 Ways to Help

3 Reasons Doing “Devotions” With Your Spouse is Difficult And 6 Ways to Help 3 Reasons Doing “Devotions” with your spouse is difficult and 6 ways to help   Living a mutually beneficial life of devotion to Jesus as a couple is a beautiful thing to see. I’ve seen many couples do this and asked some of them how and if they do devotions together. Many do, and they enjoy the…

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The Myth that Marriage Completes You

Marriage Won’t Complete You Addressing the “Marriage Will Complete You” Myth   We have likely all heard it before, the classic scene in the movie “Jerry Maguire” where Tom cruise tells Renee Zellweger “You complete me.” It’s this moment in the movie where everything seems right again. The two main characters have finally gotten their priorities straight and have realized how much they need each other. The line is perfect…

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Reversing the Order of Mistake to Confession and How Much Detail do I Confess?

  Reversing the Gap Between Mistake and Confession Its incredibly exciting to see the potential and change in an individual and relationship when, instead of having big gaps between when we sin and when we confess, we shift the point of confession to BEFORE the mistake even happens!  

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5 Things I Learned about Marriage at the Tough Mudder

I’ve done team-building exercises for years with both youth and adults of all ages. The results of doing things that are challenging in either physical or mental ways and having to accomplish them as a team is pretty incredible. Those involved usually walk away with an increased degree of connection and an unspoken and innate awareness that the people they are working with are on their team and will have…

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6 Reasons You SHOULD Pray Together as a Dating Couple: Praying as a Dating Couple Part 1

Praying as a Dating Couple Part 1 Why you SHOULD pray together You may have heard the quote “The couple that prays together stays together,” that statement has generally been made in relation to Married couples, in fact research suggests that up to 92% of couples that pray together stay together (click here for some of Dr. Dave’s thoughts on praying as a married couple). But what about dating couples?…

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