Dr. David B. Hawkins

• How to Enjoy Every Day — Together!
  While you may legitimately be upset with your mate, you can still find aspects about your mate to appreciate and value.
  Wednesday, July 8, 2015
• How to Show Respect for Your Spouse's Feelings
  We all must listen carefully to what our mate or others say to us. We must hold their feelings. Scripture says, ‘Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.’
  Monday, June 22, 2015
• Can I Ever Make My Spouse Like Me Again?
  You may feel powerless to impact the feelings your mate has for you. But it’s not true.
  Friday, June 19, 2015
• Why it's So Dangerous to be a People-Pleaser
  Recovering from codependency is much harder than it first appears. If you’ve lived a long time silencing your own thoughts and feelings, bringing them back to life can be a difficult task.
  Tuesday, June 2, 2015
• How to Stay Calm When Your Spouse Pushes Your Buttons
  There is a moment when you are listening to her, when you are having a conversation, and the next you’re having a fight. Every couple has got to understand when and why that ‘shift’ takes place.
  Monday, May 25, 2015
• How to Discover and Heal Old Wounds
  Consider that most of us walk around with emotional wounds from our past. We don’t know that we carry those wounds, because they are hidden, buried and suppressed. We spend little time trying to...
  Tuesday, May 5, 2015
• How to Bring Out Your Best Self in 5 Steps
  Do you allow work pressures to bring down your mood? Do you allow disappointments to derail your enthusiasm? Have you lost sight of who you really want to be?
  Tuesday, April 28, 2015
• 5 Powerful Ways to Avoid a Marriage Crisis
  How can men and women work together to ensure they are watchful so that they are not the victims of an addiction, affair, separation or divorce?
  Tuesday, March 31, 2015
• Do You Know How to Really Protect Your Mate?
  Consider placing your needs aside for a time to meet those unmet needs of your mate. True love requires extending ourselves—we go beyond what is expedient, pushing ourselves to love our mate well.
  Tuesday, March 24, 2015
• How to Find Your Way Back to Your Spouse
  “I hate that we haven’t been able to make it work. I’m still hoping for the best, but just don’t know how to find our way back to each other.”
  Tuesday, March 17, 2015
• 5 Ways to Stop Triggering in Your Marriage
  Falling in love is the easy part. The first stages of courtship are equally blissful. Then comes the real work and some significant hurdles.
  Tuesday, March 10, 2015
• 5 Simple Ways to Stoke the Fires of Love in Marriage
  As men take responsibility for loving their wives as Christ loved the church, sacrificially giving to her, she will most often respond lovingly.
  Monday, March 2, 2015
• 5 Reasons to be Forgiving and Patient with Your Spouse
  In each situation my wife and I have a policy: Look around our faults. This is not my best self!
  Tuesday, February 10, 2015
• Why Safety Must Come Before Intimacy
  Women, and actually men too, must have an emotional bubble around them protecting them from feeling violated.
  Tuesday, January 6, 2015
• 5 Ways to Accept Others as They Are
  “Accept one another, then, as Christ has accepted you, in order to bring praise to God” (Romans 15:7).
  Tuesday, October 21, 2014
• How can Husbands and Wives Cultivate More Empathy Toward Each Other?
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  Wednesday, October 8, 2014
• Can My Spouse Really Change?
  “The past is the best predictor of the future,” they’ve been told. This counsel is, sadly, short-sighted and in many cases, wrong.
  Monday, September 29, 2014
• 5 Ways to Heal Broken Relationships
  I’ve always been challenged by the Apostle Paul’s words: “If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone” (Romans 12:18) .
  Tuesday, September 23, 2014