Does the following resound with you?
Women need:
Men need:
The obvious counterpart to CHAIRS for men. Here’s the women’s side of things:
Some more of my notes and study on the marriage relationship as it relates to the husband.
Somewhat easy to remember too! CHAIRS:
A few things that I’ve picked up during my certification as a marriage counselor:
Most simply? A beautiful thing.
Sex is the divine process He gave us to multiply a godly heritage.He commanded us to “be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.” – Genesis 1:28
God also designed sex for pleasure and purpose.
Maintaining commitment in your relationships is tough. For most of us (all of us really) it takes intentionality, effort, and a lot of time and practice.
Here are a few strategies that can help keep that commitment level high:
Some of these are very practical while others will take time to develop. Make it a priority this year!
We don’t fight very fairly, do we? Honestly it’s more fun when we don’t because we do more damage – but we know the end result isn’t good either way.
The goal isn’t to stop fighting or have disagreements; that’s impossible. The goal is to have conflict in a way that is honest, open, and free of as much evil as possible. Conflict is inevitable and under the right care it can even be beneficial and edifying.
Here are some rules to live (or fight) by:
Marriage is tough – it’s the toughest thing that I’ve ever done and apparently it’ll continue to be like that for as long as I live.
Oh well! What this means is that spending time making my marriage better is vitally important. Here are seven unfair fighting tactics that many use in their marriages – and you need to stop doing that!
These were taken during some of my marriage counseling courses that I took for my degree program: