All issues concerning life, love and marriage.
Mark and crew start off the show with an article from the Wall Street Journal that supports his idea on using separation to save a marriage. Then they continue with the email from yesterday from a young bride who is concerned about praying together as a couple, a guy wonders if dating and marrying a girl who was raised without a father will be problematic, and a wife needs help with her crazy in-laws!
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Can Romance Novels Hurt Your Heart? According to the article today, they can! Then Mark answers emails from listeners wondering if pastors should be in ministry after they divorce, how to handle a husband who corrects and tries to fix his wife all the time, and why we don’t follow the biblical teaching on women keeping their heads covered.
Here is the link for the article on female sexual imprinting: Why Didn’t Somebody Tell Me?
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Mark and Debbie get to the rest of the Good Housekeeping article New Rules for a Good Marriage this morning.
Debbie brings an e-mail to the show from a man frustrated with his wife, who is always getting down on himself and his tendency to wait too long to say something. He is looking for a way to positively encourage his wife to make changes.
Mark plays a funny clip on the show, called Masculina, about making a woman more manly, he found it at Worship House Media.
Comedian Brad Stine joins Mark and Debbie on the show this morning to talk about the upcoming Manly Man Conference in Green Bay. Tickets are still available.
Mark talks to a caller about dealing with rejection and why its okay to have sexual thoughts about your husband or wife.
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On today’s show Mark discusses the increase in vasectomies and how the economy is impacting the birthrate, what to do when your spouse reacts badly to boundaries and consequences, what level of privacy is appropriate in marriage regarding cellphones, emails, passwords, etc., dealing with a spouse who is a perfectionist, what to do when you are attracted to someone else and not your spouse, Christians dating non-believers, and husbands who ask wives to lose weight and get implants.
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On today’s show Mark discusses the evolution of the Promise Keepers group–including letting women attend, doing the right things for a L-O-N-G time and not giving up, the difference in how men and women view change in their spouses, what “climbing the palm tree” means, the appropriate age for kids to start dating, deciding that your mate is “the one for you”, the difference between committing and contributing to your marriage, and dealing with perfectionist tendencies.
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