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A Wife’s New Understanding of the “Red Flags” She Missed before Marriage

A guest post by The Satisfied Wife – there are reasons why God gives us the parameters He does about marriage and relationships. Sin always hurts our fellowship with Him, our relationships with others, and ourselves. His boundaries for us are out of His heart of love for us. Thankfully, even if we didn’t prepare as […]

“I Felt My Husband Was Neglecting Me” – a Guest Post

A guest post by a sister in Christ: The post, “Being a Peaceful ‘Football Widow,’” is about something that we struggled with for a long time. My husband was very disengaged and I blamed him, was resentful, bitter, felt like I was always left to do everything. Then when my eyes were open to my […]

A Wife Completely Shuts Her Husband Out – a Guest Post

From a sister in Christ: I am relatively new to this blog, but have become a faithful reader, and I wanted to add something to your list of what NOT to do when you feel forgotten by your husband. It is something that I did and it literally lost me several years of my marriage, […]

Approaching My Husband’s Sin Issues – by LMS

I am hoping to share, God-willing, stories from a number of wives who have been truly “in the trenches” in the past year or two. Many of them have very different dynamics in their marriages from the one I had with Greg where I was dominating and he was passive. Some of these husbands are a lot […]

Other People Don’t Always Know What You Should Do in Your Marriage – by The Satisfied Wife

ADMIN NOTE FROM APRIL: All, I am having to cut back on my time with online ministry from about 30 hours/week to about 14. I need more time with God. My family needs me more, too. I am hoping to get to spend about 1 hour per day answering comments instead of many hours per day […]

Being a Peaceful “Football Widow”

Whether your husband becomes completely engrossed in football, baseball, basketball, racing, hunting, his work, house renovations, ministry, or something else – how is a wife to handle such a quandary in a godly way? We probably have more expectations of our husbands than we have of any other relationship, I would daresay. Many times these […]

Should You Strive to Please or Keep Your Husband at ANY Cost?

This post is specifically for wives who are disrespecting themselves or disrespecting God in order to put their husband on the throne of their hearts ** (please note the disclaimer about severe issues at the bottom of the post) IDOLIZING A PERSON Our culture thrives on encouraging us to idolize our spouses and be enmeshed/codependent with […]

When Would I Not Submit to My Husband?

  This is such a serious issue. How I pray that God’s Spirit will be very much involved to help me write and to help each of us understand things clearly. I have had many women read a bit about biblical submission and conclude that submitting to our husbands means things like: My husband is […]

I Resented Making Lunch for My Husband

  I used to resent making my husband’s lunches – even though I was the one who offered to do it and Greg never really asked me to do this for him.  I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for him on the days he worked, sometimes with an apple, too  – which was […]

“I Am Slowly Finding My Way” – a Guest Post

  Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked… but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not […]