How Not to Fail Hurting Couples
We need a kind of shock therapy to become alert to missed opportunities.
By Thomas Needham | posted 8/31/00 | posted 8/01/2000 12:00AM

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This article originally appeared in the December 14, 1992 issue of Christianity Today.
Thomas Needham was then associate dean for marriage and family at the Graduate School of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, Florida.
Related Elsewhere
Other stories from the 1992 CT Institute on divorce and remarriage include:CT Institute: Divorce and Remarriage | An introduction to our 1992 series on what divorce means for families, churches, and our country.
A Marriage Counterculture | In addressing divorce, the church must adopt the strategies of the missionary. By David Seamands
Sex, Marriage, and Divorce | Results from a 1992 Christianity Today reader's survey. By Haddon Robinson
Divorce and Remarriage from Augustine to Zwingli | How Christian understanding about marriage has changed—and stayed the same—through history. By Michael Gorman
Can One Become Two? | What Scripture says about Christians and divorce. By H. Wayne House
Remarriage: Two Views | Two New Testament professors debate whether remarriage is acceptable for Christians. By Craig Keener and William A. Heth
Becoming a Healing Community | How the church can develop a climate of help to the hurting.
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