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Clergy Couples in Crisis: The Impact of Stress on Pastoral Marriages is unavailable, but you can change that!

What God hath joined together, let not the pastorate put asunder. Holding a pastoral marriage together is like canoeing the Colorado River. In the midst of exquisite scenery come stretches of white water that challenge a couple’s tenacity, pitch them one way and then another, soak them to the skin. The water, so placid a mile upstream, now roars its threat to swallow the frightened partners in...

am disappointed in you, and I’ve got too many creative things to do in life to stay around”? Rather than risk that, he doesn’t bring up the subject. It’s like going to a doctor to check on a mole. We think we’d rather not know the facts. When my wife and I were expecting our first child, we went through a similar experience. I’d read books about women’s sensitivity during pregnancy, and so I stopped sharing some of my pressures at work in order to make her life easier. Two years later, I found out
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