The Holidays are upon us and that means family and friends gathering. This can be something you dread or something you cherish. Either way, it's going to require healthy boundaries if you're going to stay sane! Join me and my wife, Jody, as we answer questions from our listeners on their most challenging holiday boundary issues.
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Your Hardest Family Question: My husband has an insatiable need for intimacy
My husband feels like his needs are never met. His biggest need is for me to want sex and he doesn't understand that I don't need sex as often as he seems to. He also wants me to do things in our sexual relationship that I don’t feel are right and are very upsetting to me.
Home Storage Recipe: Cheesy Sausage Scrambled Eggs
This recipe is perfect for one serving. How easy is it to pack into a small jar and take on a backpacking trip, or to send to camp with your kids? Or to simply have available for a quick meal loaded with protein?
For Mid-Singles: The Mote and the Beam
A “mote” is a tiny speck of sawdust. A “beam” is a plank. As a carpenter, Jesus knew about such things. He probably had sawdust specks in his eyes many times.
Who really walks around with a plank hanging off his or her eye? Tim Keller says this is Jesus doing standup comedy to make a serious point.
How to Teach Children the Gospel Principle of Gratitude
“And in nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his hand in all things” (D&C 59:21). As a mother, it chaps me too when my kids don’t appreciate how good they have it. But in a world of a seemingly endless list of gimme-gimmes, how do we teach our children to be grateful instead of entitled?
Your Hardest Family Question: How do I protect our children from the unhealthy influence of their older sister?
We are terrified of the effect she will have on our other children. We dread the example she will set. We can’t stand the thought of our daughter smoking weed and drinking in our house. We feel the heartbreak all over again when thinking of explaining all of this to our other children. How will we prepare them?
