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You made it through the busy young children years, weathered the teen years, and now you are half in and half out of the empty nest years. So close, but not quite. The kids are busy and don't need you in the same ways. But they are in and out of the house like a revolving door. Now what? How do you refocus yourself and figure out what loving your spouse well looks like in this season? Loving Your Spouse Well When Your Nest is Almost Empty by Melanie Redd for Lori Schumaker's "Building a Lasting Love Story #Marriage Series"

Loving Your Spouse Well When Your Nest is Almost Empty

This week for the Building a Lasting Love Story #MarriageSeries, I get to bring you my friend, a passionate follower of Jesus and a gifted encourager, Melanie Redd. As well as teaching and speaking, Melanie writes at Ministry of Hope. She’s been married to Randy for 26 years and their nest is almost empty! Today,…

What Is Your Something Better? Are you stuck in a place hopelessness. Wanting to get out, but not sure how? Join me for the "Something Better Series" where you will read hope-filled true stories of others who set the past behind and stepped out toward their something better. You will get strategies and discover your own path to living life unstuck. -Lori Schumaker

What Does Your Something Better Look Like?

I remember dead ends. Choices that left me stuck in unhealthy repeat scenarios. Dreaming of a “something better” but believing it would never happen. Maybe it was a vicious cycle somehow holding me prisoner. Or maybe it was the enemy working against me. Or maybe … It was the lure of the comfortable that lies…

Why Don’t I Take Care of Myself?

But as ridiculous as it sounds, haven’t you been there in some way, shape, or form? You deny yourself? You choose others and refuse to take care of yourself? Maybe for you it is not your health. Maybe it is your faith. Or maybe, like me, it is both.