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Thanks for the post smile I know that there are a lot of men that can benefit from this article as well. Both men and women go through a lot of life issues, some of them are more similar than we even think ^_^

Lies Women (and in a lot of cases men) Believe About Themselves

Lie 7: I'm Not worth Anything
Truth: My value is not determined by what others think of me or what I think of myself. My value is determined by how God views me.
To God, my soul is worth more than the price of the whole world.
If I am a child of God, I am God's cherished possession and treasure. [This hit home for me after I lost one of my jobs. I felt like a failure. This gave me hope]

Lie 8: I need to learn to love myself.
Truth: By faith, I need to receive God's love for me.
I already love myself. I need to deny myself and let God love others through me.

Lie 9: I can't help the way I am.
Truth:If I am a child of God, I can choose to obey God.
I am responsible for my own choices.
I can be changed through the power of God's spirit.

Lie 10: I have my rights
Truth: Claiming rights will put me in bondage.
Yielding rights will set me free. [this refers to a lot of feminist ideas]

Lie 11: Physical beauty matters more than inner beauty
Truth: At best, physical beauty is temporal and fleeting
The beauty that matters most to God is that of my inner spirit and character.

Lie 12: I should not have to live with unfulfilled longings
Truth: I will always have unfulfilled longing this side of heaven.
The deepest longings of my heart cannot be filled by any created person or thing.
If I will accept them, unfulfilled longings will increase my longing for God and for heaven.

Lies Women (and men) believe about Sin

Lie 13. I Can Sin and Get Away With It.
Truth: The choices I make today will have consequences; I will reap what I sow.
Sin's pleasures only last for a season
Sin exacts a devastating toll. There are no exceptions.
If I play with fire, I will get burned. I will not escape the consequences of my sin.

Lie 14. My Sin Isn't Really That Bad.
Truth: Every act of sin is an act of rebellion against God.
No sin is small.

Lie 15. God Can't Forgive What I Have Done
Truth: The blood of Jesus is sufficient to cover any and every sin I have committed.
There is no sin too great for God to forgive.
God's grace is greater than the greatest sin anyone could ever commit.

Lie 16. I am Not Fully Responsible For My Actions and Reactions
Truth: God does not hold me accountable for the actions of others
I am responsible for my own choices.

Lie 17. I Cannot Walk in Consistent Victory Over Sin.
Truth: If I am a child of God, I don't have to sin.
I am not a slave to sin. Through Christ, I ahve been set free from sin.
By God's grace and through the finished work of Christ on the cross, I can experience victory over sin.

Lies Women Believe About Marriage

Lie 21. I Have to Have a Husband to be Happy
Truth: Happiness is not found in (or out of ) marriage
There is no person who can meet my deepest needs. No one and nothing can make me truly happy, apart from God.
God has promised to provide everything I need. If He will receive more glory by my being married, then He will provide a Husband for me.
Those who wait on the Lord always get His best. Those who insist on getting what they want often end up with heartache.

Lie 22. It is My Responsibility to Change My Mate
Truth: A godly life and prayer are a wife's two greatest means of influencing her husband's life.
It is far more effective for a woman to appeal to the Lord to change her husband than to try to exert pressure on him directly.

Lie 23. My Husband is Supposed To Serve Me.
Truth: If I expect to be served, I will often be disappointed. If I seek to serve others, without expecting anything in return, I will never be disappointed.
God made the woman to be a helper to the man.
We are never more like Jesus than when we are serving others.

Lie 24. If I Submit To My Husband, I'll Be Miserable!
Truth: Submission places me under the covering and protection of God, who controls the "heart of the king."
When I step out from under authority, I become vulnerable to the attacks of the enemy.
My willingness to place myself under God-ordained authority is the greatest evidence of how big I believe God really is.
Reverent submission is a wife's greatest means of influencing a husband who is not walking with God.
A wife's response to her husband's authority should demonstrate the way the church is to submit to the authority of the Lord Jesus.

Lie 25. If My Husband Is Passive, I've Got to Take the Initiative, Or Nothing Will Get Done.
Truth: God created the man to be an initiator and the woman to be a responder.
If a woman takes the reins rather than waiting on God to move her husband, her husband is likely to be less motivated to fulfill his God-given responsibility.

Lie 26. Sometimes Divorce Is A Better Option Than Staying in a Bad Marriage
Truth: Marriage is a lifelong covenant that is intended to reflect the covenant-keeping heart of God. As He is faithful to His covenant, so we must be faithful to keep our marriage covenant.
There is no marriage God cannot heal. There is no person God cannot change.
God uses the rough edges of each partner in a marriage to conform the other to the image of Christ.
God's grace is sufficient to enable you to be faithful to your mate and to love and forgive without limit.

Lies Women Believe About Emotions
Lie 32. If I Feel Something, It Must Be Truth
Truth: My feelings cannot always be trusted. They often have little to do with reality and can easily decieve me into believing things that are not true.
I must choose to reject any feelings that are not consitent with the Truth.

Lie 33. I Can't Control My Emotions
Truth: I do not have to be controlled by my emotions.
I can chooose to fix my mind on the Truth, to take every thought captive to the Truth, and to let God control my emotions.

Lie 34. i Can't Help How I Respond When My Hormones Are Out of Whack
Truth: By God's grace, I can choose to obey Him regardless of how I feel.
There is no excuse for undgodly attitudes, responses, or behavior.
My physical and emotional cycles and seasons are under the control of the One who made me, cares for me, and has made provision for each stage of my life.

Lie 35. The Anser to Depression Must First be Sough In Medications and/or Psychotherapy.
Truth: Physical and emotional symptoms of depression may be the fruit of issues in the spirit that need to be addressed.
If my depression did not originate as a physical problem, medications will not permanently relieve my depression.
I do not have a "right" to "feel good". Regardless of how I feel, I can choose to give thanks, to obey God,a nd to reach out to others.
God has given us powerful resources--His grace, His Spirit, His Word, His Promises, the body of Christ--to minister to our emotional needs.

~About "Lie 25: If My Husband Is Passive, I've Got to Take the Initiative, Or Nothing Will Get Done." I can see it in a different light. If a woman has a husband and the husband works a long work day to provide money for the family so that everyone is able to be taken care of, it is not always be fair to make him do all the chores when he gets home if the woman is at home all day long not doing anything. I believe men and women should both work together to create a stable living and take on whatever needs to be done. Same thing as if the woman had a long work day and the husband stayed at home and did nothing - that would be unfair to the woman. It can go either way. On days where neither person is working, both people should pitch in to do work around the house. Coming to a reasonable agreement that makes both sides happy and is fair is important. Daily Bible studies between both the husband and wife as well as prayer are important to keep both people motivated through God. That's the most important aspect of it all.

~About Lie 26, divorce is yes, a regrettable option and an option that hurts every body else around them. However, there are Biblical circumstances for divorce. No one should stay in a bad marriage if their partner is cheating on them. Another one would be if there is one spouse harming the other, whether it physically, emotionally, or spiritually. Staying in a relationship where abuse is present is not honoring the temple that God has given us on this earth - our bodies. So divorce is sometimes the best option when it can be an extremely damaging relationship. There will be people on this planet that will not want to change, and there will be times where people marry for the wrong reasons.

However, there are reasons that I don't find acceptable to divorce because those can clearly be worked out through God and between the husband and wife. Some of these silly reasons would be, "I fell out of love with my spouse.", "We don't have anything in common.", "I don't like the way they do chores around the house," etc. These are issues that can be discussed, identified, and there are ways to come through a reasonable conclusion through prayer, God's word, and effective communication between the couple.

Yes, it's good when the wife and husband work together and do their equal share. If the husband does absolutely nothing at all and sits on the couch all day then yeah, there's issues. Same goes if the wife does that, too.

Divorce is one of those things that should be absolute LAST resorts. It should never be, "If this marriage doesn't work out, then let's divorce." Because that's not taking the comittment seriously. The Holy Bible does tell us that divorce is not a good thing:

Mark 10:9

Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Malachi 2:16

“The man who hates and divorces his wife,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,” says the Lord Almighty.

So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful.

Divorce is an ugly thing that not only hurts the man and his wife, but also hurts their children if they have any and can also hurt their family and friends. God does not delight in it because I believe that God does bring people together - he's good at knowing who is good for each other. Although, that doesn't mean that people cannot marry the wrong person and be stuck in a toxic or dangerous relationship. Divorce in certain instances can lead to adultery as well, which is harmful to our soul.

There are certain instances where divorce is allowed. If it wasn't allowed at all in God's eyes, I don't think he would've mentioned the laws about it, about the certificates of divorce, etc.

Matthew 19:8 - 9

Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”

"Except for sexual immorality" - meaning that this is a completely valid circumstance for divorce. If a person divorces their spouse because they have been sleeping around then divorce is allowed. (The Matthew 5:32 verse is similar to this).

Also, in situations where spouse abuse is taking place - then divorce should be considered. The victim of the abuse staying in the situation where they are abuse and know they will be abused I don't feel is honoring their temple because they give in to what their spouse wants and at times, people get stuck in this trap because people who abuse others tend to make threats, or lower someone's self-esteem, then say, "I love you." to raise their self-esteem so they stick around. It's a vicious cycle and an ugly trap.

Although, divorce...always a last resort - it shouldn't even come to mind unless of sexual immorality or abusive situations. Most problems...probably a huge percentage of marriage problems can be solved by communication and consulting God's word and praying together. Unfortunately, not all couples will communicate effectively and some have not accepted God's word and they don't always bring God into their marriage when it is falling apart. It's actually sad when thinking that marriages that last 1 year at least are becoming more uncommon because people decide, "Oh, I had my fun - time to move onto someone new." or, "We don't love each other anymore." or other reasons - also, sometimes people marry for the wrong reasons in general, which is saddening.