Dr. David Archives

Do you have the tendency to drift into using "thinking errors," regarding your spouse?

Anger is now generally considered to be a secondary emotion and one that Scripture repeatedly warns us about.

When partners cannot accept critical feedback, healthy communication stops and marriage intimacy is unable to grow.

Relationships cannot survive or thrive under conflict and crises—there must be long periods of warmth, trust and stability for any relationship to...

Your life has been layered with pain and trauma. But you can heal wounds from your past and move into healthy ways of relating.

All of us have some situation in our lives we don’t like, but because of our codependency—our desire to please and keep the peace—we don’t say...

To take control of the conflicts in your marriage, you must recognize your arguing habits and replace them with new patterns of relating.

I’ve come to discover that anger is rarely a helpful emotion if it is even a legitimate emotion at all.

Emotional laziness has no place in the life of the Christian! Are you or someone you love relationally lazy?

There is little more threatening than a mate who seeks legal counsel, with the clear threat of separation, or worse, divorce.

Do you really want to change things so that your situation can improve? Are you ready to disrupt the status quo?

We all must listen carefully to our mate. We must hold their feelings. Scripture says, ‘Everyone should be quick to listen."

Recovering from codependency is hard. After silencing your thoughts and feelings, recovering them can be a difficult task.

There is a moment when a conversation becomes a fight. Every couple has got to understand when and why that ‘shift’ takes place.

Most of us walk around with emotional wounds from our past. We don’t know about them, because they are hidden and suppressed.