Can You Praise Your Children too Much?

It's possible to praise your children too much. Learn to distinguish words of affection and words of praise. Affection focuses on who your child is. Praise focuses on what your child does. Children know when praise is deserved and when it's only to make them feel better.

Emotional Messages

Long before your infant child understands the meaning of words, they receive your emotional messages. Your tone of voice, your smile and gentle touch communicate emotional warmth.

It's Either the X-Box or Me!

You're distressed because your husband spends more time playing video games than he does with you. There may be a host of reasons that are cause for concern; but it might also reinforce the fact that your primary love language is quality time.

How Long to Wait?

Why is my boyfriend taking so long to marry me? He might be waiting until he's in a better financial situation. Or, he might never commit to marriage. Find out the "why" and make a decision that's best for you.

How to Talk to Your Children

Almost all parents love their children, but not all children feel loved. This is most likely the result of not expressing your love for them in their own unique love language.

Burden for Military Marriages

Many military marriages suffer during long periods of deployment. One way to handle the pain of separation is to read Dr. Gary Chapman's military edition of his 5 Love Languages book. It's designed to help couples feel emotionally connected during deployment.

Does Your Child Feel Loved?

Why might your child feel like you don't love them? It's most likely because you haven't been expressing your love in their own love language.

Time Away to Avoid Temptation

Your boyfriend wants time away from you to avoid the temptation of premarital intimacy. There could be a number of reasons for this. You both need to agree on drawing boundaries during your dating relationship and honor those boundaries.

Counseling for Past Affair

You and your spouse are in counseling for his unfaithfulness to you. Should you continue to be intimate with him while still in counseling? It might play a part of the healing process, but trust must be rebuilt over time.

Improving a Difficult Marriage

The first step to improving strained marriage is learning to speak the love language of your spouse.