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Helping Your Spouse Move Past Their Past

Every human being comes into marriage with baggage. You cannot make it through a couple decades or more of life without experiencing some kind of trauma. Some of those wounds are deeper than others. What do you do when your spouse brings that baggage into the marriage? How can you help your spouse move past their past?

Is Your Marriage Beyond Repair?

How bad is bad enough? How long do you need to “put up with” seriously destructive behavior from your spouse? Is your marriage beyond repair?

God hates divorce not because of some heavenly hierarchy of sins, but because it hurts His children.

Setting Boundaries in your Marriage

Forgiveness is absolutely necessary, but sometimes it’s not enough. Communication is vital, but it doesn’t always change things. Sometimes your spouse’s bad behavior continues, and there’s no evidence it’s changing anytime soon. Setting boundaries in your marriage at such times is never easy, but sometimes it’s the best thing for your relationship.

How to Forgive Your Spouse When It’s Hard

In every marriage people get wounded. Your spouse is a flawed human being, a sinner who causes you pain. (You are too! Last week we talked about how to help your spouse forgive you when you cause them pain.) The proximity and intimacy of marriage means the wounds you receive from your spouse can feel especially hard to forgive. But learning how to forgive your spouse in a healthy way provides your only chance of a successful marriage.

10 Reasons Why Your Spouse Hasn’t Forgiven You Yet

Every marriage is the union of two broken sinful people who, left to their own devices, will destroy each other. Next week we’ll talk about how to forgive your spouse when they have wronged you. But when you have wronged your spouse you want them to forgive you, right? If that’s not happening, here are some possible reasons why your spouse hasn’t forgiven you yet that you can do something about.

Helping Your Spouse Move Past Their Past

Is Your Marriage Beyond Repair?

Setting Boundaries in your Marriage

How to Forgive Your Spouse When It’s Hard

10 Reasons Why Your Spouse Hasn’t Forgiven You Yet

7 Keys to Living Fully Alive from the Inside Out

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