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I watched in disbelief as Pat, the forty-year old wife of Jeff, her forty-five year old husband, froze amidst the hail of verbal challenges by her pontificating husband. To make matters worse, he seemed oblivious to his behavior, even under our watchful eye during their Marriage Intensive. Pat looked down as Jeff stared at her, his eyes bulging from his intensity. He continued his incessant criticism, seemingly unaware that he had lost any connection to his wife he may have previously had. Frozen in fear, she no longer talked back, slumping further in his chair. She simply sat stiffly and listened to his tirade-or at least appeared to be listening. I wondered about when I should interject my critical impressions.

The key to reviving a relationship is not in how you handle disagreements, but in how you are with each other when you're not fighting. The main determining factor in whether people are satisfied with their marriage is the quality of the couple's friendship, and strengthening this friendship is the foundation of the seven principles.

When I was a mother raising children alone, I possessed one certain Bible. I wrote notes in the margins beside verses that pertained to my circumstances, asking God to apply that truth to my need. My Bible was my diary (much like the little pink one with a lock on it that I hid under my pillow when I was eight years old). Then when I married Rich 25 years ago, I purchased another Bible, one accompanied with fresh-smelling neon markers.

We never see how our relationship really is until someone else reaches out to us and describes the picture how it looks to the others. We may be living in a toxic relationship and not knowing it. We get used to life and forget about our own well being. To see if you're in a toxic relationship, take this quiz:

When addiction invades a family, it doesn't politely knock on the front door and ask to come in. It comes in like a bat out of hell with a bloody vengeance. Addiction's sole mission is to destroy relationships, health, finances, hopes, dreams, and sanity… but it doesn't stop there. In its quest for pain and destruction, addiction goes after anyone who stands in its way. This includes the addict and the family. The families are left in the wake of addiction feeling hopeless, powerless and broken. They have had addiction consume most areas of their lives (if not all) and are paying the price of addiction even though they are not addicts themselves. Though the family can't ultimately stop the addict from self-destruction, there are some things they can do to regain their footing and start taking their power back from addiction.

This is a religious short story written by Alexis Sullivan. In this story a young woman lives an empty and incomplete life until she receives Christ and experiences a life-changing transformation and becomes a new person.

This is a religious short story written by Alexis Sullivan. In this story a man has lived an incomplete life and after years of searching for meaning he waits in the Room of Despair when he is saved by Christ.

How to pray to God when God doesn't answer my prayers

THE GREATEST EVENT OF HISTORY-THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS, OUR HOPE

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