Dr. David B. Hawkins

The Marriage Recovery Center

How to Have the Best Christmas Ever with Your Spouse

As we face relatives coming to our home, time pressures and high expectations, it is important to take a look at your calendar and make decisions.

December 17, 2024

How to Have the Best Christmas Ever with Your Spouse

5 Steps to End an Ugly Fight

When was the last time you had a fight, slept in separate bedrooms and had fantasies/fears that your marriage was over?

August 26, 2024

5 Steps to End an Ugly Fight

Why Your Marriage Needs Physical Touch

A touch, combined with a loving gaze and kind words, adds a powerful impact. There is something very basic and powerful about a loving touch.

Why Your Marriage Needs Physical Touch

Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late to Save Your Marriage!

You can save your marriage, but not on your own! You need God's wisdom.

Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late to Save Your Marriage!

Can a Husband and Wife Attend Separate Churches?

I recommend couples who cannot worship in church together find ways to worship at home together—through prayer, song, and reading of Scripture.

Can a Husband and Wife Attend Separate Churches?

Choosing Your Attitude Will Have a Greater Impact on the New Year Than You Think

Life is busy as we have just celebrated Thanksgiving and soon will celebrate Christmas and New Year’s. It’s that time of year when we not only give...

December 25, 2023

Choosing Your Attitude Will Have a Greater Impact on the New Year Than You Think

Saving a Marriage after Separation November 27, 2023

Saving a Marriage after Separation

Masturbation: Is it Wrong and a Sin?

For those of you who are struggling with this problem, I want to encourage you with this ... fight the good fight ... have faith in God ... trust...

November 02, 2023

Masturbation: Is it Wrong and a Sin?

Can a Narcissist Ever Change?

Do you ever wonder if your mate can be helped? Do you wonder if their character issues are so camouflaged that no one will ever see them, much less...

September 18, 2023

Can a Narcissist Ever Change?

5 Simple Ways to Overcome a Really Bad Mood

God’s will is not for me to pout, sulk and withdraw when my feelings are hurt. In fact, I must daily ask God to give me a loving, kind heart and...

September 13, 2023

5 Simple Ways to Overcome a Really Bad Mood

How to Support a Friend through Divorce

It is difficult to know what to say to someone in this most challenging situation. Do we rush in to offer advice, stand back, or ask the individual...

August 30, 2023

How to Support a Friend through Divorce

5 Ways to Use Loving Words with Your Spouse

We interact with many people, sometimes insensitive to the needs of others. When we are thoughtless, the result can be very damaging.

5 Ways to Use Loving Words with Your Spouse

How to Stop Your Marriage from Drifting

Couples often drift apart. It rarely happens in an instance, but rather a slow disintegration over time.

How to Stop Your Marriage from Drifting

When You Need Sacred Space in Your Marriage

Most couples must be taught to ‘hold the sacred space.’ They must be taught about the fragility of this sacred space and taught how to keep it safe...

When You Need Sacred Space in Your Marriage

The Key to Opening the Doors of Communication in Your Marriage

If you’re like most people, you hold back. You stuff your feelings. You second-guess what you should tell your mate and what you should keep to...

The Key to Opening the Doors of Communication in Your Marriage

The Opportunity of Valentine’s Day

As we near Valentine’s Day, the day florists enjoy the sweet fragrance of sales, and chocolatiers lick their lips with possibilities, many men and...

January 30, 2023

The Opportunity of Valentine’s Day

What Does it Mean to Cleave to Your Spouse?

The act of cleaving involves fully respecting your mate, honoring him/ her, knowing them and enjoying that intimacy.

December 29, 2022

What Does it Mean to Cleave to Your Spouse?

5 Things You Need to Know about Your Spouse Who Struggles with Depression

Depression is a whole-body problem. It affects our thoughts, actions, feelings, relationships and even our faith-walk.

October 11, 2022

5 Things You Need to Know about Your Spouse Who Struggles with Depression

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