Last week when I was at Marineland with my family for the fifth time this year (my two daughters are obsessed with the dolphins, belugas, and penguins), I was pushing my two year old in a plastic car and accidentally bumped into the person’s heals in front of me. My knee-jerk reaction was to … [Read more...]
A Major Reason Our Society Terrifies Me (how to reduce others fighting)
At what point did it become mandatory to have to like everyone and accept their ways of living? Over my career, I’ve met lots of people who don’t like me and that’s fine. You’re allowed to not like me. I think you’re making a mistake because (written playfully) I think I’m great, but I’m clearly … [Read more...]
Masturbation (here’s a topic you don’t hear preached in church)
Please Note: One of the benefits of not working for a church is I can write about topics like this and not get in trouble by my congregation because... well, I don’t have one. Married men, please stop masturbating so much. I keep meeting couples where the wife is complaining there isn’t enough … [Read more...]
Beware of the “Screw You!”
I grew up in a house where my parents never got mad at each other. Some parents save their fights for after the kids go to bed, but my parents never actually fought – never. They were both passive, which is the anger category where you avoid conflict at all costs no matter how much it hurts you. … [Read more...]
Marriage, Divorce, and Best Friends
Because I do weddings, I meet a lot of young couples who say their fiancé is their best friend… and I try not to laugh at them. You don’t marry your best friend. Your best friend is the person standing beside you at the altar, the one you go to in order to complain about the person across from you … [Read more...]
Guys & Girls Can’t be Friends… Most of the Time (7 Types of relationships for guys & girls not dating)
I have made many young people angry over the years with my claim that guys and girls can almost never be friends. If they are adamant that I’m wrong, what I sometimes add next is almost guaranteed to make them angry… which I’ll share shortly. A million years ago when I was a teenager, I worked at … [Read more...]
Why Guys Don’t Listen to Their Wives
As a therapist, I regularly hear women complain that their husbands don’t listen to them. Does my wife complain about this? I don’t know. That’d require me to listen to her. What’s funny is a lot of women think I’m a great listener and will even say how lucky my wife is, but then I point out if I … [Read more...]
Where Does Pain Come From? (Where is God in the Pain? Pt 3)
One of the great misconceptions is to think when people are suffering that they’re being punished by God. That’s not how He works... at least not now. In the Old Testament we read stories like Noah’s Ark where God flooded the world to start fresh (aka caused a mass genocide), how God erased Sodom … [Read more...]
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