Tag: Negotiation

• How to Avoid Letting Television Control Your Marriage

  

  With the quarantines and social restrictions enacted due to the pandemic, television viewing in many families has been on the rise. According to research done by Comcast¹, Americans are viewing television 8 more hours per week than before the quarantines. That makes sense for safety’s sake but doesn’t make our marriages any safer. Far from […]

  BethSteffaniak

  November 8, 2020

  Accountability, Alienation, Bad Habits, Balance, Bible Study, Bible Study Tools, Bonding, Boundaries, Change, Choices, Christ-Centered, Communication, Connection, Conversation, Discouragement, Encouragement, Focus, Marriage, Negotiation, Out of Balance Series, Positive Focus, Prayer, Priorities, Self-Reflection, Spiritual Practices, Togetherness, Vulnerability

  Bible Study, Boundaries, Connection, Conversation, Discussion, Negotiation, Prayer, Television, TV viewing

• Ways to Align Mismatched Sex Drives in Marriage

  

  We’re continuing our series, “Rekindling and Reclaiming Sex in Marriage,” with another lovely guest blogger, Bonny Logsdon Burns, who brings her incredible insight on sexual intimacy in marriage to this important topic today. I hope you’ll make her feel welcome by commenting and sharing this post to all your favorite spots around the web! Mismatched […]

  BethSteffaniak

  March 11, 2018

  Acceptance, Affection, Attitude, Avoidance, Bonding, Change, Choices, Communication, Connection, Contentment, Conversation, Counseling, Desires, Differences, Discouragement, Empathy, Encouragement, Expectations, Intimacy, Marriage, Marriage Spark, Openness, Patience, Positive Focus, Priorities, Proactive, Realistic Expectations, Rekindling Sex Series, Romance, Self-sacrifice, Sex & Sexuality, Sex-Drive, Togetherness

  Affection, Negotiation, Patience, Realistic Expectations, Sex, Sex-Drive, Sexual Intimacy, Touch

• How Enabling Your Mate Controls ‘You’

  

  I want to discuss one more way that our mates can sometimes control us … through the ever-tempting avenue of enabling them. The reason I say this is “tempting” is probably because I feel this draw as a woman and mother perhaps a bit more than men generally do. Enabling actually springs up from a […]

  BethSteffaniak

  January 30, 2016

  About Me, Acceptance, Anger, Balance, Boundaries, Change, Choices, Christ-Centered, Codependency, Confrontation, Control, Discouragement, Enabling, Faith in God, False Beliefs, Fear, Forgiveness, Negative Self-Talk, Negotiation, Pride, Realistic Expectations, Resentments, Responsibility, Self-Protection, Self-Reflection, Selfishness, Togetherness, Trust, Worry

  Balance, Confrontation, Control, Enabling, Fear, Negotiation, Responsibility, Worry