Relationship Radio: Marriage, Sex, Limerence & Avoiding Divorce

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! If you have an extramarital affair, you can ruin your child's chances for having happy love when s/he is grown. No matter what age the child is when you have the affair...even if your "child" is now old enough to be in college. Having an affair doesn't only deceiving your spouse, it often involves deceiving yourself...especially about the effe...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! If you have an extramarital affair, you can ruin your child's chances for having happy love when s/he is grown. No matter what age the child is when you have the affair...even if your "child" is now old enough to be in college. Having an affair doesn't only deceiving your spouse, it often involves deceiving yourself...especially about the effe...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Good marriage counselors are worth their weight in gold. The others...let's just say they aren't. (If you've had a bad experience with a marriage counselor, you likely already inserted your own negative sentence.) We hear from thousands of people every year about their marriages. From those who convinced their spouses to go to marriage counseling,...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Good marriage counselors are worth their weight in gold. The others...let's just say they aren't. (If you've had a bad experience with a marriage counselor, you likely already inserted your own negative sentence.) We hear from thousands of people every year about their marriages. From those who convinced their spouses to go to marriage counseling,...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Not every relationship or marriage has a major meltdown... But when it happens, how do you put things back together? How do you get past the hurt? The broken trust? The fear that something else is coming...especially when one partner developed a deep emotional relationship with someone else, but has decided to try to make your relationship work again... How does...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Not every relationship or marriage has a major meltdown... But when it happens, how do you put things back together? How do you get past the hurt? The broken trust? The fear that something else is coming...especially when one partner developed a deep emotional relationship with someone else, but has decided to try to make your relationship work again... How does...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Have you ever prayed about love? Perhaps something that you wanted to happen. Maybe something you didn't want to happen. It might have been about a specific person, either someone you already have a relationship or marriage with or that you want a relationship or marriage with. It might have been about a specific situation...something that you have a strong...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Have you ever prayed about love? Perhaps something that you wanted to happen. Maybe something you didn't want to happen. It might have been about a specific person, either someone you already have a relationship or marriage with or that you want a relationship or marriage with. It might have been about a specific situation...something that you have a strong...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! What does it feel like? How does a person get into this situation? Why does she love a man other than her husband? In this program, a brave woman who is with her husband but still "deeply in love" with another man tells her story. She is willing to answer questions and talk about her situation. She wrote, "I have been madly in love with a man I wor...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! What does it feel like? How does a person get into this situation? Why does she love a man other than her husband? In this program, a brave woman who is with her husband but still "deeply in love" with another man tells her story. She is willing to answer questions and talk about her situation. She wrote, "I have been madly in love with a man I wor...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! There is a difference between that feeling of love and being "madly in love."  If you long for that magically amazing love that is the focus of so many  movies, TV shows, and novels, you may indeed experience it...but not forever. Love that is deep and long-lasting isn't an overwhelming ecstasy but something much deeper...something with roots that...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! There is a difference between that feeling of love and being "madly in love."  If you long for that magically amazing love that is the focus of so many  movies, TV shows, and novels, you may indeed experience it...but not forever. Love that is deep and long-lasting isn't an overwhelming ecstasy but something much deeper...something with roots that...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Do you feel abandoned by God? Do you wonder why He isn't intervening in your marriage? If you feel this way, you are not alone.  But that doesn't mean that it has to stay that way.  There's a reason for these trials and tribulations, even though it is hard to go through right now.  How can you strengthen your faith instead of lose it? Or can you? S...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Do you feel abandoned by God? Do you wonder why He isn't intervening in your marriage? If you feel this way, you are not alone.  But that doesn't mean that it has to stay that way.  There's a reason for these trials and tribulations, even though it is hard to go through right now.  How can you strengthen your faith instead of lose it? Or can you? S...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Sometimes it makes no difference if you don't agree with the person you love. Sometimes it does. Especially when your disagreement pulls you apart.  Maybe you disagree about where you live, occupations, religion, money, children, or anything else that matters to you. On some things you are willing to yield. Not this. It is important to you. So important that...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Sometimes it makes no difference if you don't agree with the person you love. Sometimes it does. Especially when your disagreement pulls you apart.  Maybe you disagree about where you live, occupations, religion, money, children, or anything else that matters to you. On some things you are willing to yield. Not this. It is important to you. So important that...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Whether it's done by your best friend, your child, or your spouse, it hurts when we discover that we've been lied to, doesn't it? No one that I know of likes being deceived. Even in affairs, I often hear the spouse who was cheated on say something such as "As much as the affair hurt, it hurt me even more that s/he lied to me!" Would it su...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Whether it's done by your best friend, your child, or your spouse, it hurts when we discover that we've been lied to, doesn't it? No one that I know of likes being deceived. Even in affairs, I often hear the spouse who was cheated on say something such as "As much as the affair hurt, it hurt me even more that s/he lied to me!" Would it su...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! It may be guilt you feel. It may guilt felt by someone you love. Either way, it affects everyone. The person who feels guilt has little to no peace. The ones who love the guilt-ridden are pushed away...or feel helpless to help. Guilt isn't a bad thing. We actually need it. If we never felt it, we'd have no conscience...we'd fake feeling remorse and...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! It may be guilt you feel. It may guilt felt by someone you love. Either way, it affects everyone. The person who feels guilt has little to no peace. The ones who love the guilt-ridden are pushed away...or feel helpless to help. Guilt isn't a bad thing. We actually need it. If we never felt it, we'd have no conscience...we'd fake feeling remorse and...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! You've done something that you know will hurt your spouse if s/he knew about it. Maybe it was recent? Maybe years ago? Maybe even before you met, but you have worry that s/he will react badly if it came out. Do you tell?  Do you keep it a secret? If you do tell, will it end your marriage...or at the very least cause hard and angry feelings that will last for...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! You've done something that you know will hurt your spouse if s/he knew about it. Maybe it was recent? Maybe years ago? Maybe even before you met, but you have worry that s/he will react badly if it came out. Do you tell?  Do you keep it a secret? If you do tell, will it end your marriage...or at the very least cause hard and angry feelings that will last for...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! He was "madly in love" with another woman. She wanted to save their marriage. They tried a couple intense potential solutions and then, by agreement, she moved thousands of miles back to her former home leaving him with his lover. It appeared to be hopeless. They informed their kids. They made their plans for separate lives.  But things changed. Against...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! He was "madly in love" with another woman. She wanted to save their marriage. They tried a couple intense potential solutions and then, by agreement, she moved thousands of miles back to her former home leaving him with his lover. It appeared to be hopeless. They informed their kids. They made their plans for separate lives.  But things changed. Against...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Questions continue to come in about limerence. (Limerence is the state of feeling "madly in love" with another.) Millions of marriages are in crisis because either husband or wife has fallen into a state of limerence with someone else. Sometimes it is only emotional. Most of the time it also becomes sexual.  Although Dr. Beam regularly explains limerenc...