Divorce
In our last post, we looked at how to help your child cope and process their emotions around a divorce. Today, we will look at how to work with your co-parent and how you can disciple your children. Respecting your co-parent as another person made in God’s image, even if you have a broken or…
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Our last post discussed how to talk to your child about a divorce. We will look at how to help your children cope during and after a divorce. Children may feel many different emotions and respond differently to a divorce. Some common emotions and ways you can help are: Only some emotions will likely be…
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God hates divorce. He intended that a couple would be married for life. We see in Scripture that a Biblical divorce can happen because of adultery or desertion(s). In over three decades of working with Christians, most of the time when a divorce happens, it is because one spouse doesn’t really believe the Gospel. There…
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In our last post, we looked at children’s common emotions around divorce and ways to help. One of the key ways to help children deal with the emotions and stress of a divorce is to help them identify, understand, and express their emotions. As you do this, it can be helpful to remember that God…
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Remember Song of Solomon? it seems like the husband and wife depicted had a lot of fun together. They expressed so many forms of oneness: emotional, relational, spiritual, and obviously physical. Where has that gone in your marriage? Was it ever really there? Working with couples for two decades, I’ve seen how easy it is…
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You have been through a lot of pain. A massive level of betrayal rocked your world, and life has changed. Now, some time later, the pain isn’t as sharp, but it’s there. Just reading the first paragraph of this blog makes you more aware of it than before you started reading. What happened to…
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Usually I work much more on the marriage counseling side, but I’ve been getting a lot more calls from people fresh from a divorce.They are in shock. And in so much pain. Their spouse may have wanted the divorce, not them. Now they feel shame. They feel isolated and alone. They’re losing friends. They don’t…
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By Ryan C. Bailey Jack and Jill have been married for years. Jack runs his own company and Jill keeps more than busy taking care of the house and shuttling the kids to all their church activities, sport trainings, music lessons, play dates, etc. They are both exhausted and are trying to keep their heads…
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