Apr 19th, 2010 by Renee Michaels
Do you ever feel like your spouse or lover doesn’t listen to what you say? You’re probably right. Your love is picking up the quality of your voice, your posture, your expression…the emotions you are projecting—and is responding to that. What is unsaid is as important, if not more important, than the words you actually say.
Have you ever looked in a mirror and spewed out your guts just as if you were talking to that person? Look at the expression on your face. Is it scrunched up with anger? Do you have a tight-lipped smile that shows impatience or sarcasm? Listen to the tone of your voice. What emotions are you projecting? Read more...
Tags: communication, Love, Marriage, relationships
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Mar 11th, 2009 by Renee Michaels
Jerry Lawson, the lead pastor at Daystar Church in Good Hope, Ala., has taken the Devil by the horns with his sermon series, “Great Sex: God’s Way” with titles such as “Devil Lies to Couples,” “Devil Lies to Singles” and “Devil Lies to Teens.” Has his congregation grown? You betcha, big time! He’s managed to accomplish this in a conservative county where you can’t legally buy beer while using an actor playing the Devil, advertising on local billboards and promoting the series on the Daystar Church website. The Cullman Times (the local county newspaper) quotes him as saying a big reaction is exactly what he wanted. “Absolutely, we wanted to shock people,” Lawson told the newspaper. “Talking about the issue proactively is the key.” Here’s one of the videos: Read more...
Tags: Christianity, God, Love, Marriage, relationships, sex
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Mar 6th, 2009 by Renee Michaels
This thought was inspired by a wonderful blog post written by Qupid, Write A Love Poem To Yourself and my last post about anger, written months and months ago. That post brought up a sludge of memories about my dad, who was consumed with anger all his life and took it out on our family. Near the end of his life, I was visiting him with a niece in the nursing home he was placed in. As we were leaving, we gave him hugs, kissed him goodbye and told him how much we loved him. Pops said he loved us and then angrily spat out, “But I don’t love myself!” Read more...
Tags: Love, Self love
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Jul 9th, 2008 by Renee Michaels
Physical abuse is the #1 marriage buster: the abuser uses the partner’s love to control her or him. One of the most terrifying scenarios anyone can go through is facing a raging, out of control spouse attacking you—the one you love has become a monster who wants to crush you. While domestic violence or spouse abuse usually begins with psychological and emotional abuse, it invariably escalates to physical abuse. Worse than being a path to divorce, physical abuse leads to murder. Make no mistake, this is not a crime of passion—it’s a crime of violence. Read more...
Tags: abuse wife, anger, domestic violence, physical abuse, spousal abuse
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Jul 6th, 2008 by Renee Michaels
I just saw “Princess Bride” for the umpteenth time last night. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s corny, schmaltzy and I wondered is there really such a thing as “true love” or the “perfect farm boy”? Well, I guess the Universe thought my question was sincere enough to toss me an answer via the love story of Stacy and Audie, celebrating their 11th wedding anniversary today. Read more...
Tags: husband, Love, Marriage, relationships, true love, wife
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