by Elisabeth | May 5, 2020 | Church, difficult marriage, divorce, friendship, pain, single moms
This post is for anyone who has a friend (or small group member or congregant or neighbor or family member) who is living in a difficult Christian marriage, or who is going through a divorce, or who is a single mom. You want to help her. You want to support her. But...
by Elisabeth | Mar 24, 2020 | difficult marriage, remarriage, wholeness
I get asked all the time what is different about my second marriage that makes it work? And there are many answers for that. But today I’m going to focus on what I personally am doing differently. During my first marriage, I was controlling. I was a nag. I was...
by Elisabeth | Mar 17, 2020 | difficult marriage, e-course, faith, wholeness
To say it can be difficult to keep walking the Christian walk in the middle of all the adversity of living in a difficult marriage is an understatement. To say it can be harrowing to stay sane while living in crazy town is also putting it lightly. For some of us, it...
by Elisabeth | Dec 10, 2019 | difficult marriage, divorce, holidays
Are you in a hard marriage? Are you separated? Are you divorced? Are you a single mom? Are you dreading holiday gatherings? Are you dreading not having plans on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day or New Year’s Eve? Are you dreading not being able to do your years’-long...
by Elisabeth | Sep 17, 2019 | difficult marriage, divorce, groups
Do you feel alone? I get it, I really do. Because deep down, I used to as well…for a very long time. When I was in my hard marriage, ohmylands, no one understood me. I’d drop bits and pieces of my reality into a conversation and either get blank stares in...
by Elisabeth | Jul 30, 2019 | difficult marriage, faith
Something transpired a while back that made me question the moral foundation of my entire twenty-three-year first partnership. I shared it with someone and the response was, in part, “I’m not saying your entire {Christian} marriage was a sham, but…” And someone else...
