Marriage & Family Matters

Has Your Doctor Prescribed Meditation Yet? When this blog is published, I will be in the hospital awaiting the installation of my new left knee.  As is typical prior to surgery, I had to see my cardiologist and my primary … Continue reading →

Why Your Kid Will Cheat Have you ever got a call from one of your kid’s teachers saying that your kid was just caught cheating?  It’s not a great feeling to answer that call.  But wait–let’s calm down and spend … Continue reading →

How Does Your Family Work? What does it mean to say that a family is a system?  To begin, it means that everyone is connected to everyone else–no one lives in isolation.  Now a person may isolate themselves, but when … Continue reading →

Who’s Needy, Who’s Not? The truth is, we all, no matter our attachment style, experience our own neediness at times.  It’s all in how we express that neediness.  It also has a lot to do with the response of the … Continue reading →

What’s Your Attachment Style? Our attachment style, which determines basically how we connect with significant others in our lives, is set in motion during the first year of our life.  Think of it this way.  When we are born, we … Continue reading →

I’m Okay, But You’re Needy! How does it feel to be told “You’re just being ‘needy’?”  Typically, one’s first reaction will be that it’s a bad thing to be needy.  Why is that so?  The truth is we’re all needy … Continue reading →

Thought About Your Idols Lately? If you are like me, you don’t think about idolatry very often.  Typically, we will think of it when we read something about Israel in the Old Testament, or when some pastor preaches from the … Continue reading →

Porn on the Brain How can we call compulsive use of pornography an addiction?  There is nothing being injected or ingested intp our bodies.  But research shows that, like gambling, overeating, hoarding, and shopping, the continued use of pornography leads … Continue reading →

The Lure of Porn Pornography has always been around in some form.  But today, pornography is big business.  Worldwide, it brings in annually over $100 billion!  The US ranks fourth in the world behind China, South Korea, and Japan with … Continue reading →

Facebook and Loneliness With all of the ways we can connect technologically, one would think that the experience of loneliness would be on the decline, yet all the research suggests the opposite is true–people today experience an unprecedented, and growing … Continue reading →