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Offer to Help...

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For Healthy Marriages “Not tonight Hun, I have a headache.” The dreaded words that every “excited” husband doesn’t want to hear! I know the moment the “H” word slipped from her lips your mind was filled only with the shattered dream of your evening. Take a moment to regroup and refocus. Yes your sexual hopes might be dashed for the evening, but your wife just told you she is in pain. Take a deep breath and remove your interests from the front of your “mind”. There are lots of ways that you might be able to help your wife’s headache. Offer to: Give her a massage  Rub her feet  Draw her a bath  Give her quiet time  Take care of bedtime with the kids  All of those are appropriate responses when your beloved is in pain. Offer to help her but then don’t help in a way that only seeks to recover your shattered evening. 9 times out of 10 your wife will say no to the massage, even if it would help her headache, because she thinks you will use it to continue...

Take A Moment…

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By For Healthy Marriages   The longer I live the more I realize life is filled with moments - moments of pain, moments of joy, moments of triumph and moments of defeat. The writer of Ecclesiastes said it best when life was described in the picture of time: "There is a time for everything; and a season for every activity under heaven" (Ecclesiastes 3:1).    The other day, I had one of those moments when I thought about my life. I received the news of a tragic accident that claimed the life of three people. In that moment, I reflected.    I have often been guilty of taking my moments or my time for granted and filling them with complaints and fears that rob me of my peace. On that day, I realized just how precious every moment called life really is.    It does not mean we live in constant fear of losing our lives and locking ourselves in the closet in hopes that tragedy will not find us. It does, however, mean that we open ourselv...