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It only took six small stress fractures to sink the Titanic. According to pastor and counselor Tim Kimmel, here are at least six stress fractures that threaten the safety and welfare of your family:

1. Hurried, busy lives. Satan seems to have figured out that for most of us he doesn't have to make us bad, he just has to make us busy. The net result is the same.

2. The success illusion. This is referred to as the "fake it till you make it" syndrome. Looking successful can be a higher priority than doing the consistent things that ultimately yield success.

3. Unresolved conflict. The roots of bitterness grow from a failure to close the loop on anger.

4. Debt. Many people in debt don't look like they are. In fact, they look like they are doing well. But reality says that they're barely surviving.

5. High control tendencies. A lot of nice families end up on the bottom because someone inside the family uses strength of personality to get other family members to meet a selfish agenda.

6. Failure to maintain a healthy fear of God. God's people often decide to behave like spoiled brats. We'd all do well to learn from the epitaph inscribed on the tomb of Lord Lawrence in London: "He feared man so little because he feared God so much."

— Heart of the Home newsletter

1. Money/Partner's spending habits (note: 21% of American couples keep separate bank accounts)

2. Which TV shows to watch

3. Spending too little time together

4. How to discipline the children

5. How the house is kept

6. Leisure plans

7. How to spend vacations

8. Which friends to see

— Are Your Normal? By Bernice Kanner

Both women and men believe that the opposite sex isn't interested in discussing the details of bedroom behavior, according to a study in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. What's weird about that? The same men and women studied said open communication about sex was important to them personally.

—Self

Here's a good reason to make sure a woman's work gets done: When a married woman works at a job more than forty hours a week, her husband's health plummets, according to new research by Ross Stolzenberg, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.

The survey revealed—surprise, surprise—that married men are not in the habit of watching out for their own health and that wives were more likely than husbands to remind their spouses to get enough sleep, exercise, and to take their medications. All that to say, when hard-working women book more than forty-hours a week on the job, they focus more of their available time on household tasks and less on nagging their husbands about their health.

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