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Joe Dallas May 7, 2013

Business As Usual

Every Tuesday we post something about strengthening or rebuilding marriages. Hope it helps. — Business as Usual Someone to hold you too close Someone to know you too well Someone to sit in your chair And ruin your sleep And make you aware Of being alive -“Being Alive” by Stephen Sondheim I got an education from my wife and son last Saturday on the subject of predictability. We were gathered around the kitchen counter when I started to sneeze, and between my ‘ah-choos’ I noticed Renee counting out loud. I finished Continue Reading

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Joe Dallas March 12, 2013

Beware the Grudge

Every Tuesday we’ll post something to do with strengthening marriages. Hope it helps. — Beware the Grudge A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. ~ Ruth Bell Graham On the best of football teams fumbles happen, and passes are either poorly thrown or missed. But the players would be unusually stupid if they held their errors against each other, for obvious reasons. They have a goal. They need each other’s cooperative effort to achieve that goal, and if they waste time and energy holding grudges against a teammate Continue Reading

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Joe Dallas February 19, 2013

To Love, Honor and Downton Abbey

Every Tuesday we’ll post something to do with strengthening marriages. Hope it helps. — To Love, Honor and Downton Abbey I’d been conked out for nearly an hour when Renee’s outraged cry jolted me upright. A scream in the house usually means there’s been an accident, and in this case it was severe. Matthew had just been hit by an oncoming truck en route from his wife and beautiful newborn son, leaving the estate’s financial affairs in question since he had been such a stabilizing influence, and adding untold pressure to Lady Continue Reading

Filed Under: Marriage Matters Tagged With: Affair, Art, Bitter, Bitterness, Death, Downton Abbey, Friend, Friendship, Grace, Help, Honor, Hurts, Job, Lord, Love, Marriage, Process, Recognize, Renee, Soldiers, Spouse, Wife 10 Comments

Joe Dallas January 1, 2013

Honey, I Shrunk the Id

Every Tuesday we’ll post something to do with strengthening marriages. Hope it helps. --- Honey, I Shrunk the Id They drummed it into us from Psych 101 right through the end of a master’s program – Freud’s Structural Hypothesis, the theory that our minds are composed of a triune entity called the Id, Ego and Super-Ego. The Id represents a cesspool of aggressions and desires lurking just beneath our consciousness; a swamp creature that, left unrestrained, would morph us into pure animalism. The Ego is quite pragmatic, moderating Continue Reading

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Joe Dallas December 18, 2012

Slow Fade

Photo Credit "The Examiner": Andy Truschinski as Young Ebenezer and Jessie Mueller as Belle.

Every Tuesday we’ll post something to do with restoring marriages. Hope it helps. — Slow Fade I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion engrosses you. Have I not? - Belle to Young Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol “My wife thinks I’m a jerk,” lots of men say, “so she’s mad at me.” Maybe, maybe not. Inarguably some men are jerks, their wives react, no mystery there. But lots of wives are angry or disappointed because they know their husband aren’t jerks. Continue Reading

Filed Under: Marriage Matters Tagged With: A Christmas Carol, Direction, Family, God, Honor, Love, Prayer, Self, Sin, Spouse, Wife 1 Comment

Joe Dallas November 27, 2012

The Other Bond

Every Tuesday we’ll post something to do with restoring marriages. Hope it helps. — The Other Bond Adultery is trending. Anna Karenina opened in movie theaters last week, updating one of literature’s most renowned extra marital affairs. Liz and Dick, the Lifetime Channel’s biopic on the notorious Taylor/Burton relationship which began with infidelity and became a national obsession, aired Sunday night. And, of course, we’re still sorting out the confusing, tangled elements of the Petraeus scandal. So the act of straying Continue Reading

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Joe Dallas November 5, 2012

The Best, Not the Most

Every Monday we’ll post something to do with maintaining sexual purity. Hope it helps. — The Best, Not the Most “So maybe my nature does draw me to you. That doesn’t mean I have to go with it. I can say yes to some things, and no to some things that are gonna ruin everything. I can do that. Otherwise, you know, what good is this life God gave us?” -from the film “Moonstruck” In the story cited above, an engaged woman has fallen in love with her fiancé’s brother. Realizing the wrongness of pursuing a relationship Continue Reading

Filed Under: Keeping It Clean Tagged With: Adultery, Anger, Art, Behavior, Culture, Death, Doctrine, Encouragement, Fidelity, God, Help, Indulgence, Jesus, Lord, Love, Masturbation, Porn, Purity, Satisfaction, Self, Sin, Spouse 1 Comment

Joe Dallas October 29, 2012

Ten Tips for Maintaining Sexual Integrity

Every Monday we’ll post something to do with maintaining sexual purity. Hope it helps. — Some time ago I wrote this in response to the question of what steps a man should take to “keep it clean.” Considering the amount of stimulation and temptation we’re confronted with daily, common sense tells us to be, and stay, prepared. Here are ten ways we can help make that happen. Ten Tips for Maintaining Sexual Integrity Tip 1: GET REAL Recognize that sexual temptation is unavoidable in our sex-obsessed culture. Erotic images on Continue Reading

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Joe Dallas October 2, 2012

Priceless

Every Tuesday we’ll post something to do with restoring marriages. Hope it helps. — Priceless Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife --- -1Peter 3:7 I’m confident in saying I know my wife better than anyone else could know her, which I get no props for. We’re 25 years married, after all, so if my working knowledge of the woman didn’t surpass anyone else’s, it would be a mighty indictment against me. So ask me practically anything about her and I can fill you in, Continue Reading

Filed Under: Marriage Matters Tagged With: Bible, Father, God, Help, Honor, Marriage, Peter, Recognize, Renee, Self, Spouse, Trust, Wife 6 Comments

Joe Dallas September 27, 2012

The Stepford Syndrome

Every Thursday we’ll post something having to do with relationships and/or emotions. Hope it helps. — The Stepford Syndrome The power of porn may not just be its explicit content. It may also be its capacity to take the viewer into another world, a place where bodies and people are perfect, where imaginary lovers comply with every wish, and where the scene created perfectly matches the deepest desires of the viewer. It’s a perfect and perfectly destructive world, and it’s the stuff both horror and heartbreak are made Continue Reading

Filed Under: Relational Matters Tagged With: Appetite, Heart, Help, Hunger, Love, Masturbation, Needs, Normal, Porn, Relationships, Self, Selfishness, Sin, Spouse, Trust, Wife 2 Comments

Business As Usual

Beware the Grudge

To Love, Honor and Downton Abbey

Honey, I Shrunk the Id

Slow Fade

The Other Bond

The Best, Not the Most

Ten Tips for Maintaining Sexual Integrity

Priceless

The Stepford Syndrome

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