In the same e-mail, “He treats me like a treasure,” and a little further down,”He looks at porn… and I found condoms and lube.” Mark and Debbie discuss how looking at porn and masturbating is not treating you like a treasure. A Christian man wants to know if he needs to lower his standards because every Christian woman he seems to date is not good enough. A 24-year old man wants to know how he can get to know a 15-year-old girl.
A husband wants to know how unusual it is to have sex with his wife everyday, sometimes several times a day? Mark shares his opinion on using internet dating sites.
Mark and Debbie talk about an interesting article from BBC regarding a new Afghan law that allows an Afghan man to starve his wife if they are not sexually faithful.
Debbie brings an e-mail to the show from a man that wants to hang out with his friends, but his wife can’t stand his friend. Another e-mail from a man confronts Mark about always making men look horrible. The man wonders why he and his wife always fight about the same things.
A pastor’s wife e-mails the show looking for direction on how to advise couples in her church dealing with adultery, anger issues and an affiar that happened within the church.
On today’s show Mark discusses the definition of marriage, what to do when one spouse doesn’t want to save the marriage, advice on remarriage and blended families, Internet dating and long distance relationships, the importance of listening to your head and not your heart, taking the advice of others in your dating decisions, how couples ruin their marriages over “things”, the definition of “sex”, how to get your husband to help around the house, adult children being involved in their parents’ marriage, and how we can’t control the decisions of others.
On today’s show Mark discusses extended adolescence, the message and misery of the Christmas Story, when wives think they need to be Super Woman, advice for step-families and those contemplating becoming a step-family, Internet dating, how long to wait to date after the death of a spouse, and women mentoring women to understand what it means to submit in marriage.
