The cost of being in a marriage or
love relationship when you do not know whether you can count on your partner or spouse may surprise you.
ave you found ways to help your marriage or
love relationship when you're feeling disconnected?
Not exact matches
When you lose a
loved one, you begin to know all too well the importance of
relationships.
But according to Erika Ettin,
relationship coach and the founder of dating site A Little Nudge, this is just one of the many ways we are doing ourselves a disservice
when it comes to looking for
love.
One word that makes us happy: Progress [21:21] We grow because that helps us give more — share it with someone you
love, it magnifies it [22:04] More excited about feeding one billion people than any material thing, so much more meaning
when it's not just about you [22:19] The challenge is our brain: it's looking for what's wrong, because that helps you survive [22:30] Peak state = high energy, feel extraordinary, producing results is easy [22:46] Low energy state = say things and do things that hurt your
relationship [23:39] Peak State = Beautiful state, Low - energy state = suffering state [24:08] Over achievers don't suffer, right?
When we
love and have healthy
relationships and connect with others with and through grace; it is then that we are true to ourselves, true to God, and true to and truly express the very nature and principle of all that is.
When the church lets people know that it's ok to be authentic... to be gay in this case... then they can encourage healthy expression of their sexuality through
loving, monogamous
relationships.
But, as in any healthy
relationship,
when we truly
love someone, we desire to pour our affection out on that person.
The movie's family seems to have it all
when it comes to money and fame, but as their patriarch, Royal Tenenbaum, attempts to finally make peace with his children (in his own dysfunctional way), we see that the only thing that really matters is
love and
relationships.
And
when a woman becomes pregnant within a
loving, supportive, respectful
relationship, has every option open to her, [and] decides she does not wish to bear a child; and has access to a safe, affordable abortion — there is not a tragedy in sight — only blessing.
I would
love to have that type of
relationship where A) even though they were tired, they made an effort towards physical intimacy and B)
when it didn't work out, there was no anger or blame, just laugh about it and move on.
To maintain its dependency scam, revenue flow, nd unearned privileges and tax dodges, religion tries to force itself into every aspect of life
when dying is a time to bask in the glow of
loving human, real
relationships... and perhaps make a few apologies... like for wasting others; time with ignorant, self - servinge proselytizing.
It often seems as the «share» the details of this
relationship that Jesus is more like a child's imaginary friend who is always on their side
when any conflict occurs with others rather than the Jesus who
loved people enough to tell them, without accusing or withdrawing affection, the hard truths they needed to know to encourge them to make more meaningful choices.
I have known one too many single Christians who have struggled with their
relationship with God because they are told that God is only one who could fill all of their longings for intimacy
when all the while God made humanity to be in
loving relationship with another.
I think about the teacher who was kind and encouraging to me
when I was a teenager in need of encouragement and would like to know how her multi-decades-long
loving committed monogamous
relationship with her same sex partner is remotely bad for society or bad for them.
There's no shortage of voices in our culture
when it comes to
love, and they speak quite authoritatively on all matters of
love and romance: What to value in a
relationship, how to handle conflict, what real
love looks like, the importance of sex and so on.
Duet 11; 26 God gives man a choice to be blessed or cursed same as Adam there are consequences
when we chose not to heed Gods word.Did God curse Adam yes he did both he and eve died spiritually they lost that constant fellowship with God that relationship was broken.So he was cast out from the garden from under Gods protection.Adams love for Eve was his downfall he chose her love over Gods love and When we chose anything else other than him for our security we fall into the same trap as Adam.and we also must deal with the consequences.He most definitely is a jealous God.bre
when we chose not to heed Gods word.Did God curse Adam yes he did both he and eve died spiritually they lost that constant fellowship with God that
relationship was broken.So he was cast out from the garden from under Gods protection.Adams
love for Eve was his downfall he chose her
love over Gods
love and
When we chose anything else other than him for our security we fall into the same trap as Adam.and we also must deal with the consequences.He most definitely is a jealous God.bre
When we chose anything else other than him for our security we fall into the same trap as Adam.and we also must deal with the consequences.He most definitely is a jealous God.brentnz
Am I incorrect in saying that you believe that Christine and I can have a truly
loving relationship that we each see as a big part of how we relate to the
love of God (like the article was suggesting) and yet,
when we die and meet God face to face, he will tell us that we broke the rules and so our
relationship was detestable to Him and we must now spend eternity in hell?
When parents lovingly provide for their children's needs, they model God's
love and lay the foundation for their child's future
relationships — including marriage and his or her
relationship with God.
What would that child have to do to make you choose to be separated from him / her for eternity —
when you had the power to heal their brokenness and restore him / her to wholeness and
loving relationship with you and the rest of humanity — and eternity to wait for them to respond to your
love?
When we refuse to give ourselves completely, especially in marriage, we destroy the foundations for a truly mutual and
loving relationship, and we no longer live up to the meaning of marriage which is the Great Marriage of total self - giving between Christ and the Church.
I am weaning myself off a
relationship with a deity that only talks to me sometimes, helps me only
when I'm perfect, sinless or contrite about my sisns, reminds me that I am originally defiled and sinful and should be really happy for his
love - as I am not unconditionally deserving of it.
When I met Sofia, photography was a casual hobby for her, but we've spent the past year sharing our passion for capturing people's
love,
relationships, and milestones.
But
when we bring the principle of growth of persons in
loving relationship to the judgment of marriages where the partners discover that they have made a mistake and that two people are destroying the possibility of growth in freedom and
love, it is no violation of integrity to end the marriage so that each may seek a new life which is more responsible and genuinely productive.
When Paul likened marriage to the
relationship between Christ and the Church, it was an exhortation to crazy
love and sacrificial giving, not power grabbing.
When gays are only asking to have their
loving relationships acknowledged and respected, why is there so much fear and anger?
When relationships between parents are characterized by
love, warmth, cooperation, security, and mutual support, children and adolescents are more likely to show positive adjustment.
When he is outside of this
relationship he is simply an individual manipulated by powers, which grant him the hedonistic pleasure of sexuality, but which do not grant him to
love truly and to be bound by
love.
But from where I'm standing, it looks like the Church in America is actually doing pretty well
when it comes to individual
relationships of
love and care.
We may go beyond the traditional theories of atonement and ask a radical question: «What account would be given of atonement if we were to interpret it from the standpoint of the most realistic analogies we know to human
love when it deals with broken
relationships and the consequent suffering?»
Love in relationship is possible only when God is present, for God is l
Love in
relationship is possible only
when God is present, for God is
lovelove.
As Carl Dudley writes, «
When church size is measured by human
relationships, the small church is the largest expression of the Christian faith,» And David Ray reminds us that «small churches are the norm, primarily because many, many people still find them to be the right size In which to
love God and neighbor.
But, what do people mean
when they claim a
loving relationship?
We try to
love people, get to know them, build
relationships with them and even help them
when possible because we believe that is the way Jesus lived.
However, to have a stable, healthy
relationship, one needs to have a healthy self -
love and self - acceptance, which is psychologically possible only
when one can accept one's sexuality as morally good and, in a Christian context, compatible with God's
love.
We find that spending time with them, looking directly at them
when we talk with them and really listening to what they have to say are ways of showing
love and building
relationships while we're sharing food and water with them.
Scriptural authors never deal with homosexual orientation, and
when they do treat homosexual activity, they never do so in the context of a
loving relationship.
Those levels of honesty are true
relationship and I
love it
when they bring clarification or nudges bc it helps move me towards manifesting poteential and freedom.
I believe that there should be zero tolarance for predatory behavior; but
love demands us to overlook a lot of «little things» that,
when blown out of proportion, have the cummulative power to kill the initial shallow attraction /
love with which all
relationships begin.
«While a floating head on a Jumbotron can instruct us, I think we can only grow to maturity
when we learn to
love at point - blank range, where the messy aspects of
relationship can't be avoided.»
While a floating head on a Jumbotron can instruct us, I think we only grow to maturity
when we learn to
love at point - blank range, where the messy aspects of
relationship can't be avoided.»
And one way in which this experienced reality can be guaranteed for what it is would be by affirming that
when this life is ended the
loving relationships will somehow be continued and given fuller and finer expression.
God presses on my heart, your heart, ALL humans hearts to
love folks, give them grace
when they do not deserve it as to draw us together into
loving relationships.
This demand makes more comprehensible God's double aspect of
love and justice: judgment is the individual's judgment of himself
when he cuts himself off from
relationship with God.
Those who build their
relationships on the foundation of «feeling» will find that
when the rain comes, their
love quickly crumbles.
We didn't reject our son
when he did reveal he was gay... we embraced him as the son we have always
loved... it changed nothing in our
relationship.
In summary: both in order to foster the
relationships that nourish our own growth and in order to create in ourselves the broadest and best character, we do the best for ourselves
when we act in that way which is also best for others — in
love.
Mike i like what you wrote about the
relationship with Christ its all about that.To me the gospel description is found in that verse it covers our fathers
love that he has always
loved us from the beginning
when he created us it covers the reason why Jesus was sent to put things right to remove our sin guilt and shame and to receive from him new life his life eternal but it is just as real today and tomorrow and forever.brentnz
You even tell me «The general arch of the bible is for
loving, committed, long - term
relationships,» yet
when I point out several examples of
loving, committed long - term
relationships you find scripture that prohibits these (I agree that scripture does so).
I relate with some of your dangers, I use to experience some of them
when I first «left the church»... But I will say, years later... now that I have learned to center the majority of my
relationships around Christ, that this builds lasting
relationships and it is fulfilling for all in so many ways... I am learning to «live in community» with some close believers and feel as though I am experiencing
Love like I have never experienced it before.