One day I woke up and suddenly felt distant from my husband. In between his firefighter and paramedic school demands and the demands of raising our son and taking care of our home, I realized it had been months since we went on a date. We always seemed to make an excuse for not going…
When my husband and I suffered our first miscarriage in 2012, our marriage suffered immensely. It’s almost as if we were unknowingly looking for children to fix the hurting and ailing parts of our marriage and hearts. At the time, we did not realize that our marriage was shattered in various elements, but after the…
There are times in your life and in your spouse’s life when you feel completely defeated. Abandoned. Sometimes trampled on by the circumstances of life. You may feel as if you are stuck in tiny, dark, pungent room and you work tirelessly to leave, only to find there is no way out. Satan is very…
In Janell Rardon’s book, Overcoming Hurtful Words, she challenges readers to “reflect, reframe, and reauthor” their thinking to thrive in all areas of life. Focusing on the foundational importance of communication in marriage, I asked Janell, a Board Certified Life Coach, about the power of words in marriage, finding hope in trying times, and where…
My first year of marriage was full of beautiful, blissful memories—but it was also an emotional roller coaster. My husband and I were 19 and 20 when we married, so we were battling our new sense of freedom, living on our own, and navigating the new twists and turns of a marriage relationship together. We…
