Does Your Relationship Suffer Toxic Conflict? Our culture talks about conflict in a multitude of ways… normalizing damaging behaviors, labeling others as narcissistic, abusive, toxic, etc. Many of us were raised in homes where conflict escalated into something worse than unhealthy and actually became damaging because it was toxic. According to Partners in Prevention: If …
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search shows verbal aggression and conflict damages kids (if you are also yelling, you are contributing) – and it takes two to make it happen. Let’s become women of strength & dignity and raise the standard of behavior for ourselves and everyone around us, including our husbands.
What I Wish Women Knew about The Respect Dare…
The title of this blog cracked me up, because I’m really no one who should have that much enthusiasm attached to her name. 🙂 I just want to remind everyone that any good you see in me is His Spirit within. Thank you so much for the prayers, too. My son is healing nicely, although …
He Doesn’t Deserve Respect…
If your marriage is difficult, understand that the enemy wants you to believe you have just TWO CHOICES: 1) Stay and be miserable… or … 2) Divorce… He’s pretty good at what he does. He’ll tell you things like, “Your kids are better off without all the fighting,” which simply is not true (check The …
When The Respect Dare Doesn’t Work…
A while back, I posted about a woman wrote to me about doing The Respect Dare book. Having completed all the assignments, she found herself stuck on the last one, where she was to talk about what she had learned as a result of completing the dares. When I wrote about her circumstances originally, I …