Podcast

Learning to Make Wise Decisions as a Couple

You want one thing and your husband wants another.  How do you make a wise, biblically-based choice when you and your husband are divided?  Got a question for me? Here are the guidelines… Keep your message short and sweet because you only have 90 seconds to record your question. Please leave your name and where you’re from.  If…
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How to Connect with Your Husband through His Love Language

Have you ever been at a place in your marriage where you’re just not connecting with your husband?  Either he’s not feeling loved by you or you’re not feeling loved by him?  It’s funny just typing out this question because I already know your answer.  It’s the same as mine.  In fact, it’s kinda absurd…
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How to Get on the Same Page as a Couple

Off kilter.  Leading separate lives.  No vision for your family life.  All of these issues can cause you and your husband to disconnect.  This is what one wife is dealing with in her marriage.  Here’s her story… Dear Jolene, How do my husband and I get on the same page? We seem to disconnect at…
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How to Recapture Respect for Your Husband

Respect.  Every husband needs it.  But at some point in a wife’s life she’ll inevitably lose respect for her man no what their circumstances are.  This is what one wife is dealing with in her marriage.  Here’s her story… Dear Jolene, I am struggling with the loss of respect for my husband. There is a…
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Building the Bridge Between Your Husband and Your Family

As a wife, you have hopes of having your husband and family mesh.  It’s a natural response to want to have your closest relationships connecting with each other.  But unfortunately, the Norman Rockwell picture perfect family gathering is not always the case for some wives. There are issues.  Misunderstandings.  Miscommunications.  Hurt feelings.  It happens.  This…
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How to Juggle Working In and Out of the Home

The elusive balancing act of doing it all.  Can we, as women, do it all and do it well? Will we lose our minds in the process? Put our to-do lists before our relationships? Get fed up with our husbands?  Hmmm, quite possibly!  Here’s one woman’s story… Dear Jolene, Please provide me with info on how…
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Confronting the In-Laws

Oh, the dreaded meddling in-laws!  While I’m sure they have great hearts in wanting to offer up their opinions to their daughter or son, sometimes they need to learn to respect the boundaries of their adult child’s marriage and family life.  But unfortunately, some family members cross those lines.  This is what one wife is…
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What to Do When a Husband Isn’t Spiritually Leading the Home

Spiritually unequal in marriage?  Husband is a prodigal?  How is it that he’s still the head of the home?  Or is he?  This is what one wife is dealing with in her marriage. Here’s her story… Dear Jolene, If your husband has fallen away from Jesus, Our Lord, the wife must take the lead in the…
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One Very Good Reason Not to Put Others Before Your Marriage

A healthy and fulfilling marriage is an intentional marriage- a marriage where both husband and wife prioritize their relationship before all others,  including their kids, their extended family,  friends, work, and ministry.  But if we’re not careful to walk in discernment and wisdom, the marriage will start to experience some cracks.  This is what’s happening in…
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How to Minister to a Depressed Husband

Weary.  Overwhelmed.  Downtrodden.  Depressed. Every person experiences these feelings at some point in their lives, but it is how we handle these emotions that truly matters.  Sometimes when our husbands fall or get pushed into a pit of depression they need us, their wives, to help them get out or our situation will get much worse.  This…
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