What are two of the best things you can do for your marriage? 1) Know your spouse’s personality. My husband and I recently took an online personality test* and it was an eye-opening experience. This is not to say that I wasn’t aware of our personalities before, but to read about ourselves in print confirmed a…
Personal space is scary! In his 1933 inaugural address, Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke the well-known phrase, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” It is timeless, and never more true than in relationships where fear can be the great bucket of water that puts out the most fervent flame. With our partners, we are…
That memory watching a line of boats on a river waiting for the gates of a lock open and close brings me peace. Hearing the water pour in and spill out like a giant bathtub, smelling the fumes of the idling boats, the lock gate opening for a few to slowly motor inside – in that moment,…
Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm. Proverbs 13:20 As newlyweds, June and Brad often feel like they’re “brailing their way through each day.” Having been raised by dysfunctional single parents, they’ve struggled with finding relational models that inspire romance and the kind of connection they both…
It never ceases to amaze me just how fickle my feelings can be in my marriage! One moment, I can look at my husband and feel so in love with him, so at peace and the thought goes through my mind, “I will never fight with him again, our love is so great”. Suddenly, he…
