Relationship Radio: Marriage, Sex, Limerence & Avoiding Divorce

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! They say forgive and forget. That’s not how it works. You can forgive without forgetting. You can forget without forgiving. Or you can do neither and carry it for the rest of your life until it turns you bitter. Here’s the truth. Forgiveness sucks. It’s hard. And the day before I taught on it to my Connection Compass group, I found out someone had lied to me and stabbed me in the back. I didn’t want to forgive. I wanted to hate them. So in this video, I ...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! God did not tell you to leave your marriage. I need to say that plainly, because I keep hearing the opposite. “I’ve been praying about it.” “I think God is showing me a way out.” “I just don’t feel it anymore, so maybe this is His answer.” Friends, that is not an answer from God. That is sin wearing Christian language. This week a man left a comment on one of my videos. His wife had been praying for months. There was no infidelity. No biblical re...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! He talks to everyone at the party. Then you get in the car and he goes silent. You ask a question. Nothing. You tell him about your day. Nothing. And you start to wonder if every other woman in that room was prettier, or funnier, or more interesting than you. Here's what I've learned after years of this work. Most men don't go quiet because they stopped caring. They go quiet because somewhere along the way, talking stopped feeling safe. In this video, I brea...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! AI can give you brilliant relationship information. It can also give you brilliantly bad advice. And you won't know which one you got until it blows up in your face. Here's a true story. A woman's husband was flying home from a business trip. She wanted to show him how much she loved him. So she asked AI what to do. It gave her a list. She picked one. Lingerie from Victoria's Secret. Rose petals from the garage door, across the floor, up the stairs, do...

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text! Doing nothing feels safe. It isn't. When your marriage starts falling apart, most people freeze. You don't want to make it worse. You don't want the conflict. You don't know what to say. So you wait and hope it settles on its own. It almost never does. You really only have three options when trouble shows up. Do nothing. Get the wrong help. Get the right help. In this video, Dr. Joe Beam walks through all three, and why the second one does more damage than m...