AS A COACH SPECIALIZING IN EMOTIONAL STRENGTH, I work mainly with women who are "too nice", the kind of person who bends herself backwards to please other people, who has a hard time setting boundaries, who never puts her needs in front of others, who doesn't know how to say "no". From my experience, this pattern is much more common among women... and especially Christian women. The reasons are not difficult to guess: as women we are often raised to "be nice", "smile", "don

IN MARRIAGE, IT IS ABSOLUTEY ESSENTIAL THAT THE RELATIONSHIP BE BASED ON FAITH, TRUST AND FREEDOM - AND NOT ON CONTROL. Control is an evil weapon. God, on the contrary, never forces us to do anything, even when it is for our own good. God instituted free will and is unwilling to violate it. God said: "See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction." (Deut. 30:15) When someone wants to "control" someone else, the result is oppression. In this type of r