Category: Accountability

• Waiting on Your Mate to Change? And WW Linkup

  

  Are you feeling like you’re tired of beating your head against a wall because your mate never changes? Does your spouse continue to deny the glaring issues that you see in his or her character and choices? Do you fear that if your mate doesn’t wake up soon your love and marriage may not survive?…

  BethSteffaniak

  August 25, 2015

  Accountability, Attitude, Blaming, Boundaries, Change, Choices, Christ-Centered, Confessional Culture, Discouragement, Expectations, Faith in God, Fear, God’s Redemption, Perseverance, Perspective, Plank Hunt Series, Positive Focus, Realistic Expectations, Redemption, Responsibility, Self-Reflection, Toxic Baggage, Victim Mentality, Vulnerability, Wedded Wednesday, Wounds

  Choices, Christ-centered, Confessional Culture, Denial, Proactive, Self-examination, Self-Reflection

• Trusting God with My Marriage And WW Linkup

  

  Guest post by blogger – Robi Smith of Hopefulwifetoday.com It was three and a half years ago that I discovered my husband was addicted to pornography. I had been looking through his phone when I stumbled upon deleted still screens of images from porn websites. It came to me as a total shock. My husband…

  BethSteffaniak

  August 18, 2015

  Accountability, Addictions, Affairs, Alienation, Anger, Betrayal, Boundaries, Change, Choices, Christ-Centered, Communication, Confession, Confessional Culture, Conflict, Confrontation, Emotions, Faith in God, God’s Redemption, Lust, Prayer, Redemption, Sex & Sexuality, Sex/Porn Addiction, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Practices, Spiritual Warfare, Trust, Truth, Wedded Wednesday

  Accountability, Boundaries, Communication, Confession, Faith in God, Porn Addiction, Pornography, Prayer

• Are You Too Familiar with Your Spouse? And WW Linkup!

  

  There’s something that’s sadly accurate about the old saying, “familiarity breeds contempt”—especially in marriage! When you live in close proximity to another human being for any length of time, you will inevitably feel friction and irritation at some point . . . especially if your spouse is abusive or insensitive in any way. But even…

  BethSteffaniak

  March 31, 2015

  Acceptance, Accountability, Anger, Apologies, Authenticity, Bonding, Change, Choices, Communication, Confession, Humility, Intimacy, Positive Focus, Responsibility, Self-Reflection, Vulnerability

  Acceptance, Apologies, Apology, Confession, Contempt, Humility

• How Successful is Your Reconciliation? And Link Up

  There’s no easy answer to the question: What are the signs that reconciliation is not going to work? But … I would like to offer you Leslie Vernick’s three essential ingredients to a thriving relationship as a guide for assessing how well your reconciliation {particularly in marriage} is going. The first essential ingredient is ……

  BethSteffaniak

  June 24, 2014

  Accountability, Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Self-Reflection, Wedded Wednesday

  Forgiveness, Forgiveness Series, Freedom, Mutuality, Reciprocity, Reconciliation

• The Secret to Lasting Change

  Continuing in our forgiveness series, we’re going to look at the GIANT-sized task we have in replacing hurtful patterns and living out and staying committed to healthy ways of thinking and relating in the reconciliation process {particularly in the context of marriage}. This means we’ll be looking at this from the perspective of the one…

  BethSteffaniak

  June 17, 2014

  Accountability, Boundaries, Change, Christ-Centered, Commitment, Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Wedded Wednesday

  Accountability, Forgiveness, Forgiveness Series, Reconciliation, Support

• How Money Became the Real Ball and Chain in My Marriage

  

  When Gary and I were first married, we were young seminary students with very little money to our name. Unfortunately, I wanted to rework his fashion image. And since I proudly held “a single” credit card to a department store and because Gary needed some clothes, we went on a spending spree!  After all, we…

  BethSteffaniak

  April 25, 2011

  About Me, Accountability, Bad Habits, Boundaries, Change, Choices, Denial, Discouragement, False Beliefs, Immaturity, Marriage, Marriage Mistakes, Money Matters, Newlywed, Perseverance, Priorities, Realistic Expectations, Self-sacrifice

  Debt, Financial Problems, Immaturity, Money, Money Matters, Responsibility