After a long day or exhausting week at work, it is so very easy to become a couch potato – binge watching on “Shark Tank” and eating more cookies and chips than is good for us. I know, because I’ve done it too. Maybe it’s time to take inventory, clean out the cobwebs in our…
DetailsIt seems that we are hearing lots today about “fake news.” As I heard Denzel Washington say, “If you don’t watch the news you are uninformed and if you watch the news you are misinformed.” He went on to say that media is more concerned about being the first to report something than they are…
DetailsI find it interesting to read about wedding traditions in various cultures. Some may seem to make sense – such as the practice that began in the south, where there are two wedding cakes. The second cake is called the “groom’s cake” whose design is more masculine. However, other practices such as trashing the wedding…
DetailsIt Is 3:00 AM and it is starting again . . . his snoring. You lay in bed getting more irritated by the minute. Part of your irritation is because you can’t sleep, which of course contributes to you being tired, which in turn contributes to your irritation. The longer you listen to the snoring,…
DetailsOver the Christmas holidays my wife and I were able to spend some time in Florida with two of our kids and their families. While we live in Colorado, which is one of the greatest places to live in the country, there are times during the winter snows that it is nice to have family…
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Well, of course information is important. Without it we wouldn’t know how to do things, how to get somewhere, and so on. So, maybe the real question to ask would be, how important is information? You see, there are limitations to the benefits of information. As my friend Pete writes in his book At the…
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In a quote from a Fortune Magazine article, William H. Whyte said, “The great enemy of communication is the illusion of it.” That is an excellent picture of what so many individuals fall prey to. Your spouse wants you to communicate, so you make every effort to talk more with them. However, even though you…
DetailsYes! Co-parenting can be extremely challenging as parents frequently arrive at the table with two very different views of just what good parenting looks like. But as tough as that is, what happens if you add a divorce to the mix? If you are divorced, you are probably thinking, “Trying to co-parent is worse than…
DetailsGreetings! I am Dr. Barry Ham. If you are receiving this initial “Relationships Tips Tuesdays”, it is probably for one of several reasons . . . . . . it may be that you purchased my book God Understands Divorce: A Biblical Message of Grace, sometime during the past year; or you may have signed…
DetailsWe began last week to look at the importance of intimacy in a marriage as well as how easily it can slip away. It is not uncommon for a couple to begin to experience a decrease in their intimate connections, but if left unaddressed, it can develop into an extended period of distance. For some,…
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