There are many competing voices who want to shape your thinking about marriage. As I shared in Five Marriage Lessons From a Newlywed, when I was engaged one friend told me, “Marriage is hard. It’s mostly working through difficult issues and every now and then you get a moment of enjoyment, but most of the…
I feel incredibly blessed and humbled to be happily married. However, I know that many people do not share my experience of joy in marriage. As I shared in Five Marriage Lessons From a Newlywed, one of the main messages about marriage that I heard from so many people before I got married was one…
Last week a well-known celebrity announced that she and her husband are separating. They have a young child. To pull language directly from her, she said that the split is amicable, they are best friends and will remain so, they make each other laugh a lot, and her husband is an amazing father. Based on…
Before I got married I didn’t date a lot but I flirted like it was going out of style. When you’re single, a little flirting here and there probably isn’t that big a deal but I was a major flirt and I majorly led guys on. I called it “flirt without follow through.” From my…
