Mark is LIVE from Green Bay this morning before heading off to Iowa! The 2 start with an interesting study, Arguments Are Good for Your Health
Mark addresses an e-mail about an interracial couple and the cultural differences and challenges that they will face. A husband e-mails the show about his wife who refuses to forgive him after an emotional affair that happened years ago. Mark explains the role each spouse plays in affair. Is 17 years-old too young to know that your boyfriend is the ‘one’? A parent asks if her teenager’s Flag Page will change as she grows up?
We finally get to e-mails on the show starting with one from a woman that is hesitant to marry man that may not be able to provide for her. A woman that is not even divorced yet is already asking dating questions, and a wife wants to know whose responsibility it is to deal with erectile dysfunction. A wife kicks her husband out, and he asks if, “while he’s out, can he date other women?” A husband is trying to save his marriage, but his Christian wife won’t have sex with him and wants a divorce.
To open the show Mark and Debbie talk about the effect fighting parents have their kids and reference the article, Bad Marriage Takes Toll on Kids.
Mark and Debbie tackle a heavy e-mail this morning from a woman who recently found out her husband molested their daughter years ago. Mark shares his compassion and the importance of exposing this situation to the church and authorities so their are consequences.
Another heavy e-mail is discussed on the show about a couple that has been in marriage counseling for over a year and is still struggling with anger issues, boredom, and bitterness. Debbie reads e-mails about rock music, when a male friend is crossing the line, and how a new Christian can help bring a women in the sex trade business to Christ.
On today’s show Mark discusses a study regarding the effects of divorce on children, handling long-distance relationships, what kind of arguing and fighting is “normal” in marriage, the importance of apologizing (even if you don’t think you are wrong), how to “die to self” in a marriage without becoming a door mat, when both spouses are perfectionists, and what to do when facing a potential divorce you don’t want.
