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Can You Divorce for Abuse? Our Tendency to Treat Adultery as Worse than Abuse

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 3, 2020 | Abuse, Theology of Marriage and Sex

Unfortunately (in my mind), there has not been consensus in the Christian world on whether or not a person is biblically justified to divorce in cases of abuse. It’s long been held that you can divorce for adultery, but not for abuse (I explained why I think...

10 Tips for Talking to Your Kids About Your Marriage Problems

by Rebecca Lindenbach | Jan 16, 2018 | Family, Resolving Conflict

How do you talk to your kids about your marriage problems? It’s Rebecca here on the blog today tackling that big question: what do you tell your kid when you and your spouse just aren’t getting along? We’re in the middle of a week talking about how...

10 Things To Know About Staying Sane When Parents Divorce

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 19, 2017 | Family, Tough Marriage Situations

How do you handle a parents’ divorce–when you’re an adult? We often think of the effects of divorce on children. But divorce affects adult children, too. It’s Wednesday, the day when we always talk marriage, and lately I’ve had a number...

To My Fathers: The Ones I Chose, and The Ones Who Stepped In

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 16, 2017 | Family

When I think of Dad, I think of belly laughs, and smiles, and choked back tears. I think of a proud grandfather, a fiercely loyal parent, a family man. I think of a man who loves hockey but who loves his grand-daughters, too. I picture a man who is proud that his...

Top 10 Trends About Divorce in Our Culture

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 26, 2016 | Tough Marriage Situations

HBO is coming out with a new series–DIVORCE–that will run Sunday night at 10 pm (premiering October 9) depicting a couple aiming for divorce, and then realizing that it’s not as easy as they think. Here’s how they describe it: After more than...

Forgiving My Dad: Reestablishing a Relationship After Years of Separation

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 21, 2016 | Family

Our relationships with our fathers follow us into marriage. And many of us have virtually no relationship with our dad–because we’ve decided that it’s better that way. There’s no doubt that sometimes it is–when there’s abuse or...