A pastor’s wife is packing her bags to leave her husband and Mark explains the power this woman has to change his behavior. When does nagging become too much? A 23 year-old Christian woman wants to know if using a Christian dating sites is desperate. Mark talks about changing your prayer if God has not answered.
Is it okay to ask a spouse to get tested for STDs after having an affair? A wife can’t get her husband to stop looking at porn and Mark talks about judgment day and what is important to God.
What should be shared after an affair and Mark explains why he is a professional ‘jerk.’ A Christian woman living with her Christian boyfriend can’t get him to pray with her. Is sex addiction real?
Mark and Debbie move on to talk about a husband that stopped having sex with his wife 3 years ago, and a woman that says God told her she can divorce her husband because he’s not a true Christian. Another e-mail is brought to the show about divorcing over a cat!
Debbie brings an e-mail to the show from a wife who contracted a life-long STD while having an affair and wants to know how to(or if) tell her abusive husband.
Mark is back from Bermuda! They open the show with a a New York Times article, Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear. The article tells one woman’s story whose husband came home one day and said, ” I don’t love you anymore!” For 4 months that woman acted like it didn’t happen, and her husband returned to her.
Mark and Debbie move onto e-mails and get to one that deals with hurt and owning up to the things you have done wrong in your marriage and the harm in blaming the innocent spouse. Another e-mail is read from a wife whose husband wakes her up in the middle of the night, every night, for sex and apparently gave her 2 STDs and she is concerned about adultery.
Today’s show is a repeat from 10/07/08. Mark discusses wackos in the news, sexually transmitted diseases, affects of delaying parenthood, young marriage, money in marriage, ending no fault divorce, covenant marriage, gay marriage, when husbands and wives flip roles, making a wise choice in a mate, when the husband doesn’t want to go to church, and why men hate going to church.