Marriage Radio: Helping Your Marriage

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!Love. Lots of people think they know what it is...until they realize that they don't.Think of the hit songs from your lifetime. How many were about wanting to be loved, enjoying amazing love, or longing for lost love? Why those topics? Because most adults fit into one of those three categories. Some wonder where their lover may come from...if at all. Others hope the one they secretly love will finally come to realize it and respond with passion. Many bask in the deep emotions of shared love...and think it will be like this forever. And way too many still love the person who once loved them but now is gone...So what is love really?Is it the ecstatic emotion of new romance? Is it the security of trusting the person you love to always love you in return? Is it something that really does last a lifetime or is it fleeting...lasting a few years at best?In this program, Dr. Joe Beam responds to your questions about love. What it is. How to know if you really are in love. How lo

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text![Episode brought to you by WhatAboutMe.Org - a division of Marriage Helper that helps children navigate through how to deal with their parents' divorce. Donate to the mission at whataboutme.org/donate]We hear it all the time, "Kids are resilient!"But is it true? If I fall down the stairs and break my leg, will my leg heal?Actually, no it won't heal. If I don't do anything to help my leg heal, then it will only get worse.If I go to the doctor, get a cast, go to physical therapy, and do all the things necessary for my leg to heal, then yes, it will heal. Otherwise...you get the picture.We understand this for every other area of health and wellness in life. But when it comes to thinking about how children are affected during divorce or separation, all of a sudden we expect the children to know exactly what to do to help themselves heal.And that's not how it happens.Can children be resilient? YES. Absolutely.Will they be resilient on their own? Highl

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text![Episode brought to you by WhatAboutMe.Org - a division of Marriage Helper that helps children navigate through how to deal with their parents' divorce. Donate to the mission at whataboutme.org/donate]We hear it all the time, "Kids are resilient!"But is it true? If I fall down the stairs and break my leg, will my leg heal?Actually, no it won't heal. If I don't do anything to help my leg heal, then it will only get worse.If I go to the doctor, get a cast, go to physical therapy, and do all the things necessary for my leg to heal, then yes, it will heal. Otherwise...you get the picture.We understand this for every other area of health and wellness in life. But when it comes to thinking about how children are affected during divorce or separation, all of a sudden we expect the children to know exactly what to do to help themselves heal.And that's not how it happens.Can children be resilient? YES. Absolutely.Will they be resilient on their own? Highl

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!It was a slow decline. 7 years ago is when Brandon and Carrie’s marriage started experiencing troubles, but they didn’t realize it yet. Over the years, they grew apart. Even though they were living in the same house. Work, kids, and the daily occurrences of life started tearing them apart from each other until one day, it seemed like everything came crashing down all at once. What did they do next and where are they now?That’s what we are going to explore in this week’s episode of Marriage Radio.At Marriage Helper, we believe in saving marriages and strengthening families. The main ways we do that are through our live workshops and online courses. Visit marriagehelper.com for more information, or call us at 615.472.1161 or 866.903.0990. 

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!It was a slow decline. 7 years ago is when Brandon and Carrie’s marriage started experiencing troubles, but they didn’t realize it yet. Over the years, they grew apart. Even though they were living in the same house. Work, kids, and the daily occurrences of life started tearing them apart from each other until one day, it seemed like everything came crashing down all at once. What did they do next and where are they now?That’s what we are going to explore in this week’s episode of Marriage Radio.At Marriage Helper, we believe in saving marriages and strengthening families. The main ways we do that are through our live workshops and online courses. Visit marriagehelper.com for more information, or call us at 615.472.1161 or 866.903.0990. 

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!Many times we have people asking us to hear stories of people who have been through our online course and attended our Marriage Helper workshops. In this podcast, we interview an online course member and a recent Marriage Helper 911 workshop graduate to find out: What her marriage was like before getting helpWhy she decided to get helpWhat she learned that made major differences in her marriageHow she got her spouse to agree to go to the workshop with herWhat she learned at the workshop that made all the difference in the worldHow her marriage is doing nowHer HONEST OPINION of what you should do in your situationPlus - THIS MONTH ONLY (March 2017) special $500 travel credit towards the workshop! Call 615.472.1161 for details. Visit us at marriagehelper.com

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!Many times we have people asking us to hear stories of people who have been through our online course and attended our Marriage Helper workshops. In this podcast, we interview an online course member and a recent Marriage Helper 911 workshop graduate to find out: What her marriage was like before getting helpWhy she decided to get helpWhat she learned that made major differences in her marriageHow she got her spouse to agree to go to the workshop with herWhat she learned at the workshop that made all the difference in the worldHow her marriage is doing nowHer HONEST OPINION of what you should do in your situationPlus - THIS MONTH ONLY (March 2017) special $500 travel credit towards the workshop! Call 615.472.1161 for details. Visit us at marriagehelper.com

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!Want to work on becoming more attractive, but you feel like there are so many obstacles in your way? Kids, spouse living at home, job, and more? Here's the question that we received:"My situation is unique in the sense that my husband and I are not separated. We are in the same house. When it comes to working on my PIES, it's hard at times because we have kids, my husband's hours are all over the place, and I am so busy with our daughter. It's also hard because there's no intimacy...so I'm not very motivated to work on my PIES. How do I do the PIES when are are other obstacles?"We'll talk about how to overcome these in this episode.  

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!Want to work on becoming more attractive, but you feel like there are so many obstacles in your way? Kids, spouse living at home, job, and more? Here's the question that we received:"My situation is unique in the sense that my husband and I are not separated. We are in the same house. When it comes to working on my PIES, it's hard at times because we have kids, my husband's hours are all over the place, and I am so busy with our daughter. It's also hard because there's no intimacy...so I'm not very motivated to work on my PIES. How do I do the PIES when are are other obstacles?"We'll talk about how to overcome these in this episode.  

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!We fight for marriages. All marriages. No matter what has happened. BUT sometimes they end.Actually, sometimes they should end.We realize that sounds as if it is in opposition to our mission. In this program, Dr. Joe Beam explains when it is not.We offer many resources on MarriageHelper.com to help save marriages. We provide online courses for the spouse who wishes to save the marriage when the other doesn't. We post many podcasts that address relationship problems and provide valuable, life-altering information.Our weekend intensive, Marriage Helper 911, has an amazing success rate. Even though the vast majority of couples who attend have one spouse who has NO desire to save the marriage (usually they come to get a deal in the divorce), three out of four couples who go through the workshop actually turn their crisis marriages around and make it good again.Yet...Some marriages end. If you suffer in a marriage - whether you are the one who wants out or the one who wishes

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!We fight for marriages. All marriages. No matter what has happened. BUT sometimes they end.Actually, sometimes they should end.We realize that sounds as if it is in opposition to our mission. In this program, Dr. Joe Beam explains when it is not.We offer many resources on MarriageHelper.com to help save marriages. We provide online courses for the spouse who wishes to save the marriage when the other doesn't. We post many podcasts that address relationship problems and provide valuable, life-altering information.Our weekend intensive, Marriage Helper 911, has an amazing success rate. Even though the vast majority of couples who attend have one spouse who has NO desire to save the marriage (usually they come to get a deal in the divorce), three out of four couples who go through the workshop actually turn their crisis marriages around and make it good again.Yet...Some marriages end. If you suffer in a marriage - whether you are the one who wants out or the one who wishes

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!We receive so many questions ranging over so many aspects of marriage, relationships, love, sex, and more that we can't get to them all. This show helps alleviate that problem.Ask anything you wish about any of the topics in the paragraph above. Or other topics about relationships or marriage if there is something you would like to discuss.There will be a time limit to each call. Therefore, if you take too much time to tell your story, Dr. Beam won't have time to respond. Be succinct so that he can answer and you have time for clarifying questions or to disagree. At the end of the allotted time per caller, Dr. Beam will have to move to the next caller.It's live, February 23, beginning at 7 p.m. Central time. Listen at www.MarriageRadio.com, BlogTalkRadio or on your smart phone. Call 646-378-0424 during the program and press 1 when you hear the menu if you wish to speak with Dr. Beam.REMEMBER that for the sake of fairness, there will be a mandatory time limit to

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!We receive so many questions ranging over so many aspects of marriage, relationships, love, sex, and more that we can't get to them all. This show helps alleviate that problem.Ask anything you wish about any of the topics in the paragraph above. Or other topics about relationships or marriage if there is something you would like to discuss.There will be a time limit to each call. Therefore, if you take too much time to tell your story, Dr. Beam won't have time to respond. Be succinct so that he can answer and you have time for clarifying questions or to disagree. At the end of the allotted time per caller, Dr. Beam will have to move to the next caller.It's live, February 23, beginning at 7 p.m. Central time. Listen at www.MarriageRadio.com, BlogTalkRadio or on your smart phone. Call 646-378-0424 during the program and press 1 when you hear the menu if you wish to speak with Dr. Beam.REMEMBER that for the sake of fairness, there will be a mandatory time limit to

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!We receive so many questions ranging over so many aspects of marriage, relationships, love, sex, and more that we can't get to them all. This show helps alleviate that problem.Ask anything you wish about any of the topics in the paragraph above. Or other topics about relationships or marriage if there is something you would like to discuss.There will be a time limit to each call. Therefore, if you take too much time to tell your story, Dr. Beam won't have time to respond. Be succinct so that he can answer and you have time for clarifying questions or to disagree. At the end of the allotted time per caller, Dr. Beam will have to move to the next caller.It's live, February 23, beginning at 7 p.m. Central time. Listen at www.MarriageRadio.com, BlogTalkRadio or on your smart phone. Call 646-378-0424 during the program and press 1 when you hear the menu if you wish to speak with Dr. Beam.REMEMBER that for the sake of fairness, there will be a mandatory time limit to

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!How does sexually explicit material affect relationships? With your spouse or with your children? What can you do about it? In this podcast, we interview Clay Olsen, co-founder of Fight The New Drug, a global movement focused on spreading the word on how this type of media affects relationships.As Fight The New Drug puts it, "it kills love.In this podcast, we talk about how sexually explicit material affects marriages, what to do if you have a spouse who is addicted and how to respond.We also talk about how to parent children in today's society, how to bring up the issue of sexually explicit material, and how to continue those conversations.For more about Fight the New Drug, visit fightthenewdrug.org. 

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!How does sexually explicit material affect relationships? With your spouse or with your children? What can you do about it? In this podcast, we interview Clay Olsen, co-founder of Fight The New Drug, a global movement focused on spreading the word on how this type of media affects relationships.As Fight The New Drug puts it, "it kills love.In this podcast, we talk about how sexually explicit material affects marriages, what to do if you have a spouse who is addicted and how to respond.We also talk about how to parent children in today's society, how to bring up the issue of sexually explicit material, and how to continue those conversations.For more about Fight the New Drug, visit fightthenewdrug.org. 

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!Not every relationship or marriage has a major meltdown...But when it happens, how do you put things back together?How do you get past the hurt? The broken trust? The fear that something else is coming...especially when one partner developed a deep emotional relationship with someone else, but has decided to try to make your relationship work again...How does the straying partner get over the emotional connection with that other person?How can s/he learn to love you again...and you learn to love him/her again with the security that your relationship will last a lifetime?There are things to do when reconciling a relationship. There are things NOT to do. There are also "gray" areas where you have to use your wisdom. (Knowing the right principles helps tremendously with this.)In this program Dr. Joe Beam explains why relationships fail and how they can be put back together again. He explains the principles of reconciliation and the specific do's and don'ts th

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!No matter the age, we hurt deeply when we feel abandoned by someone we thought loved us...or that should have loved us.The information in this program can be used effectively by an adult dealing with lost love, such as a divorce. It also gives effective directions for helping a spouse...or a potential spouse...risk loving you when deep inside they feel that they cannot trust anyone to always love them.In this program Dr. Joe Beam and Justin Prince, Program Director for the amazing service to kids What About Me, discuss seven stages kids go through when their parents fight and/or divorce. (Adults often go through the same seven...)This program gives specific steps and illustrates clearly that path that a parent can take to help his or her children risk loving again. Or help you risk loving again. And show you how to help someone you love trust you enough to love you.If you have children who have been affected by divorce, parental fighting, or death of a parent, this program is

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!No matter the age, we hurt deeply when we feel abandoned by someone we thought loved us...or that should have loved us.The information in this program can be used effectively by an adult dealing with lost love, such as a divorce. It also gives effective directions for helping a spouse...or a potential spouse...risk loving you when deep inside they feel that they cannot trust anyone to always love them.In this program Dr. Joe Beam and Justin Prince, Program Director for the amazing service to kids What About Me, discuss seven stages kids go through when their parents fight and/or divorce. (Adults often go through the same seven...)This program gives specific steps and illustrates clearly that path that a parent can take to help his or her children risk loving again. Or help you risk loving again. And show you how to help someone you love trust you enough to love you.If you have children who have been affected by divorce, parental fighting, or death of a parent, this program is

Enjoy the episode? Send us a text!When Dr. Tennov introduced the concept in the 1970s, it was mostly rejected. We encounter marriage counselors who have never heard of it. But the research is solid. PhD's including anthropologists and biologists and more study it, even having brain scans that teach us much about it.It's called limerence. It is a state of being "madly in love' to the point that it becomes obsessive and affects the way a person feels, acts, and thinks. It is powerful. It can be beautiful. It often is destructive.If you search the internet for the word, you'll find many sites discussing it. Unfortunately, some of those are by people who read an article or two - maybe even Tennov's book from back in the day - and think themselves knowledgeable. Some confidently cite things about limerence that Tennov said that we now know by further research not to be the case. Therefore, be careful with what you read on the internet about it. It may lead you to some very wrong concl