Family Life

According to the Oxford American Dictionary, jealousy is being “resentfully suspicious of rivalry (like your lover); resentfully envious which is being discontent or ill-will over …

Just call me the Miss Manners of garage sales. Contrary to popular belief, I believe a yard sale is not an anything-goes, no-etiquette-needed free-for-all. As …

A few years ago a world-wide media event served as an illustration of how our society does not want us to get along with each …

If you gamble, you could lose a lot more than money. Three teenage boys huddle over a cardboard box at the store counter. “It’s only …

When a friend of mine asked me how on planet earth (this is no heaven) we can find and nurture healthy relationships, a list flashed …

Months go by, and I’m stumbling blindly, arms outstretched. There’s a path promised to me, but it somehow remains unclear. How frustrating it is to …

It was a two-for-one deal. The day I got married, I got a husband and a six-year-old daughter—instant wife and mother. It was rocky at …

Even in the best divorces, kids live divided lives in which they struggle to understand their parents’ behaviors, negotiate tangled family systems, and develop values …

“It takes wisdom to have a good family [marriage], and it takes understanding to make it strong. It takes knowledge to fill a home with …

This year of 2021 is slowly ebbing away. After enduring 2020—whew! What a time it has been! Once again, we ask what will our holidays …