Category: Responsibility

• What to Do When Your Spouse Won’t Change and WW Linkup!

  

  With the new year, comes the fall-out from the holiday season. We often overeat, over-drink, overwork and overdo it in just about every conceivable way during that time of year. So January is the prime time to regroup and commit to new and positive changes that bring relief to our out-of-shape lives. I’m mostly a…

  BethSteffaniak

  January 6, 2015

  Change, Choices, Christ-Centered, Faith in God, Positive Focus, Realistic Expectations, Responsibility, Wedded Wednesday

  Choices, Positive Focus, Proactive, Responsibility

• Am I Your Soft Place to Fall? Video

  

  Today, I’m sharing another video in our series of “sloppy expectations” in marriage. I explore the best way to respond to our spouses when we are confronted by how we’ve hurt them.     What thoughts typically run through your head when your spouse shares how you’ve hurt them?    What do you think could help you to look…

  BethSteffaniak

  October 19, 2014

  Acceptance, Anger, Apologies, Choices, Christ-Centered, Communication, Conflict, Confrontation, Humility, Positive Focus, Realistic Expectations, Responsibility, Self-Protection, Self-Reflection, Validation, Vulnerability

  Apology, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Humility, Responsibility

• Did I Marry Mr. Wrong? Video

    Hey there! I hope you’ll take a few minutes to watch my latest edition of “Sloppy Joe Time.” I’m exploring the sloppy expectation that marriage should be easy, and if it’s not, then we married the wrong person.     The success of marriage comes not in finding the “right” person, but in the…

  BethSteffaniak

  September 28, 2014

  Blaming, Choices, Christ-Centered, Expectations, Faith in God, False Beliefs, Love of God, Realistic Expectations, Responsibility, Victim Mentality, Video

  Commitment, God’s Love, Unrealistic Expectations

• Never Asked My Spouse to Help and Wedded Wed Link Up!

  While I’m taking a four week break from blogging, I’m sharing some older posts from way back in MM’s vault. This was my very first post that kicked-off a series I dubbed the “Top 10 Mistakes I Made in Marriage.” It was published way back on October, 10 of 2010! Whoa, can’t believe it’s been…

  BethSteffaniak

  July 22, 2014

  Blaming, Codependency, Communication, Conflict, Confrontation, Control, Expectations, False Beliefs, Marriage Mistakes, Negative Self-Talk, Realistic Expectations, Responsibility, Toxic Baggage, Victim Mentality, Wedded Wednesday

  Communication, Guilt, Negative Self-Talk, Realistic Expectations

• My Lazy Ways in Marriage

  

  My husband would never accuse me of being a couch potato, but when it comes to my marriage, sometimes I can be a little lazy. I guess that’s because of the “Law of Lock-Down.” Never heard of it? Well, it’s when you have “locked-down” your mate in the bonds of holy matrimony and you never…

  BethSteffaniak

  February 10, 2011

  Choices, Conflict, Laziness, Perseverance, Positive Focus, Priorities, Responsibility, Self-sacrifice, Selfishness

  Conflict, Entitlement, Laziness, Lazy, Responsibility, Selfishness