Letters To My Daughters

Dennis and Barbara Rainey•theraineys.org

These podcasts are the essence of a couple dozen emails I wrote to my daughter and two daughters-in-law at their request about the art of being a wife. After our other three daughters married I pulled out, refreshed them and sent them to the new brides. Other young women were interested in hearing what I’d learned in marriage so I refined the originals and added a few more and the result was a good summation of my life lessons. It became a book called Letters to My Daughters. In these podcasts I hope you will find encouragement and help for your marriage, and maybe you can avoid some of the mistakes I made! - Barbara

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Episodes

Praising the Positive

FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Praising the Positive Guest: Barbara Rainey From the series: Letters to My Daughters (Day 2 of 2) Bob: Barbara Rainey has some advice for wives. She says, when you’re husband messes up—and, by the way, he will—when it happens, how you respond may determine whether he learns anything from his mistake or not. Barbara: If you rail on him, and if you criticize him, and you tell him h...

Jan 07, 2020•25 min•Ep. 1

Building Up Your Man

FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Building up Your Man Guest: Barbara Rainey From the series: Letters to My Daughters (Day 1 of 2) Bob: See if you can spot where the challenge is here: You’re a wife and a mom who wants things to go right. Marriage and family is messy, and your husband isn’t perfect. You see how that can be a problem? Here’s Barbara Rainey. Barbara: One of the things that is true about us, as wome...

Jan 07, 2020•25 min•Ep. 2

Facing the Storms

FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Facing the Storms Guest: Barbara Rainey From the series: Letters to My Daughters (Day 1 of 1) Bob: To be the woman and the wife that God created you to be, you have to know how to walk by faith on the good days and on the dark days. Here’s Barbara Rainey. Barbara: Most people who have been through suffering—whether it’s shallow, small things or really deep, tragic things—can say,...

Jan 07, 2020•28 min•Ep. 3

Embracing the Differences

FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Embracing the Differences Guest: Barbara Rainey From the series: Letters to My Daughters (Day 1 of 3) Bob: Engaged couples often look at one another and think, “We’re so much alike!” Then, after they have been married for a little while, they look at each other and think, “Who are you?!” Here’s Barbara Rainey. Barbara: What happens when we’re engaged—we tend to think: “Oh, we’re ...

Jan 07, 2020•30 min•Ep. 4

Leaning on God

FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Leaning on God Guest: Barbara Rainey From the series: Letters to My Daughters (Day 2 of 3) Bob: Barbara Rainey says there’s a lesson that every couple needs to learn really early in their marriage. The lesson is this: “You can’t do this on your own.” Barbara: The bottom line is going to be the same for the rest of your life; and that is, when God brings you to a place that you re...

Jan 07, 2020•30 min•Ep. 5

Being His Helper

FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Being His Helper Guest: Barbara Rainey From the series: Letters to My Daughters (Day 3 of 3) Bob: The Bible calls women to be helpers to their husbands; but as Barbara Rainey points out—sometimes, when you’re trying to help, you’re not helping. Barbara: I think, in most women’s hearts, we do start out—in the early years, especially—genuinely wanting to help. It switches somewhere...

Jan 07, 2020•25 min•Ep. 6

Keys to a Healthy Marriage

FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Keys to a Healthy Marriage Guest: Barbara Rainey From the series: Letters to My Daughters (Day 1 of 2) Bob: Barbara Rainey likens intimacy in marriage to a secret garden—a place that only a husband and wife go together. She says it’s a risky place. Barbara: It is a place of raw exposure. It is a place of being real with one another. It is the place where we are most transparent i...

Jan 06, 2020•26 min•Ep. 7

Surviving the Seasons of Intimacy

FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Surviving the Seasons of Intimacy Guest: Barbara Rainey From the series: Letters to My Daughters (Day 2 of 2) Bob: Why does it seem like moms are often not that interested in marital intimacy? Barbara Rainey understands. Barbara: It’s hard to have a good, healthy, dynamic sexual relationship when you’re tired all of the time. You’re being pulled in a hundred directions by jobs, a...

Jan 06, 2020•25 min•Ep. 8

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