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One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Future Marriage

Shelley Hendrix
Blog, Communication, Conflict, Dating, Engaged, Finances, Issues & Culture, Married, Practical, Relationship, remarriage, Roles
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Getting married carries its own risks and rewards. Bringing two individuals into a life-long covenant relationship truly requires God-size love and faith. Having been through an unwanted and very painful divorce, the idea of getting married again was that much more of a risk for me. Now I had two young daughters to consider in…

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The Tough Decisions

Jen Bradley
Blog, Conflict, Emotions, Issues & Culture, Married, Relationship
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It was an easy choice to say “yes” when Jonas asked me to marry him in 2005. Saying “I do” after a stressful engagement was the next landmark decision in our relationship. It had been a long road, but still easy to marry the one I truly loved. When we bought our first home, first…

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Awkward Moments in Marriage

Jess MacCallum
Advice, Blog, Communication, Conflict, Married, Practical, Relationship
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My wife and I will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary in June. Not much time to really get to know a woman. New things come up all the time. For example, the other day as we were talking, something profound dawned on me. (Think “dawned” as in a vampire scrambling to take cover.) I have…

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Real Problems, Real God

Gary Thomas
Blog, Communication, Conflict, Faith, Issues & Culture, Married, Relationship, Spirtuality
15 responses

Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!” Psalm 144:15 Melissa is married to a depressed husband. Next to an addiction, being married to a depressed spouse is one of the most difficult challenges a husband or wife could ever endure. Depressives tend to cast a pall not only on their own lives, but…

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Just Drop It

“I don’t want my writing room and the gym to be in the same room,” I bowled my husband over with my (better) opinion before he had even closed his mouth. We hadn’t been in our new home for two hours, our household goods hadn’t arrived, and already I was ready to bite his head…