The most essential emotional element in a happy and healthy marriage is love.
During the next several years, the child’s ability to express love increases, and if he continues to receive love, he will increasingly give love.
When you’re through changing, you’re through.” Bruce Barton.
Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse’s perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement.
The decisions we make regarding vocation, child rearing, education, civic and church involvement, and other areas of life create changes that affect our marriage relationships. The manner in which couples process these changes will determine the quality of their marriages.
We can request love, but we cannot demand love.
You may truly love your child, but unless she feels it – unless you speak the love language that communicates to her your love – she will not feel loved.
No matter our limitations, God has a great purpose for our lives. – Nora Peacock –.
Those who say it is hypocritical to take positive action when they have negative feelings are operating on the assumption that the true self is determined by emotions. I am suggesting that is a false premise, and to the degree that it has permeated Western thinking, it has been detrimental to family relationships. In.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. – Proverbs 3:5–6.
If your enemies are hungry, give them food to eat. If they are thirsty, give them water to drink. – Proverbs 25:21.
Feedback is a gift only when it comes from a person who has earned your trust.
Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage. A loving spouse can supply that all-important catalyst.
James Garbarino, professor of human development at Cornell University, has spent many years studying the inner life of violent teenagers. He concluded that the feeling of rejection is a major element in the psychological makeup of the violent teenager. Often this rejection grows out of being compared with another sibling.
When we hold hands, it seems as if our blood flows together. We could kiss forever if we didn’t have to go to school or work.
Words of affirmation are simply true statements affirming the worth of another person.
God’s love enables us to serve those who mistreat us. – Verda J. Glick.
Trust is a fragile commodity. Know your code of conduct and the values you stand for. Remember: if you wouldn’t want to explain it on ‘60 Minutes,’ don’t do it.
I may not feel significant until someone expresses love to me.
Angry people need someone who cares enough to listen long enough to understand the pain. They need someone who listens carefully enough to identify with the person’s anger, wisely enough to express understanding, and courageously enough to respond with a gentle, truthful answer – an answer that seeks resolution of the issue that gave rise to the anger.