Chad David:    Therapist, Officiant, & Really Cool Guy
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Chad David

Learning to ? dumb people

Masturbation (here’s a topic you don’t hear preached in church)

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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!”

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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

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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...]

This is the “Feel Sorry for Yourself” Culture

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After a particularly long day of work, I recently shared with my wife: “Some days it feels like people just want to feel sorry for themselves,” and her response surprised me: “Yeah, but who doesn’t?” The topic of feeling sorry for yourself had come up before, so she’d had time to consider it, and on … [Read more...]

Guys & Girls Can’t be Friends… Most of the Time (7 Types of relationships for guys & girls not dating)

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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...]

Anxiety and Idols (12 causes of anxiety)

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There is no simple solution for when we have too much anxiety.  I write “too much” because we’re supposed to have some anxiety in our lives. We’d be severely emotionally handicapped if we didn’t.  Actually we’d probably be dead because we’d do something so stupid we’d get ourselves killed because … [Read more...]

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