Someone in Your Corner

I'll be sashaying along through life, feeling pretty cocky, when something will jolt me back into a sense of my neediness--my need for my husband. ...

Someone to Watch over Me

Shortly after my daughter's wedding, I turned happily to the groom's mother and said, "It's such a relief to know Devri has someone to take care of her ...

Respecting the Weaker Vessel

Here's a coffee mug worth probably twenty cents. I can bang it and drop it and be rough with it.

This is a Laura Ashley teacup that costs twenty-five ...

All in Your Head

Seventeen percent of American women--but only seven percent of men--have been told by a physician, "It's all in your head."

Marriage and Needs

I never got married to get my needs met. My husband does not exist to meet my needs. I exist to meet his needs. And incidentally, while I'm doing ...

What Men Think About

Women look at their men, who are thinking silently, and assume they're ruminating about an important issue (the one we've been thinking out loud ...

Women and Men

What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held.

What Men ...

Don't Take it Too Seriously

Someone once said, "Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly." We need to put lightness back into our marriages.

When I sense I've ...

Dangerous Doctrine

I saw a cartoon some time ago in which a preacher had prepared the pulpit area like a fortress. He was peering through the crack of a machine gun nest. ...

A Wife's Job Is to Love, Not Change

Ruth Graham said it was a great day in her life when she realized it was not her job to change her husband. She said "It was my job to love Billy and ...