If I could go back in time twelve years and give myself advice as I prepare to marry my husband, I would give myself this advice: Never say divorce that first time. When my husband and I encountered our first few losses and became emotionally distant from one another, divorce rolled off my twenty-year-old tongue…
We all face those drought periods in life – where things feel stale, stagnant like nourishment is so scarce that we are crawling around on all fours to find the nutrients our bodies and minds so desperately crave. We feel like we are trudging through muddy and uncertain waters – lost and hopeless. Our marriages…
Provided that you’ve been married for more than a few months, you’ve probably gone through seasons of sadness, bliss, frustration, exhaustion, and joy. Sometimes, it feels like we are riding an emotional roller coaster with little or no ability to control the speed or the duration of the trip! Though we may not be able…
“Love is an earthquake meant to relocate the center of our universe,” writes Mike Mason in his brilliant book, The Mystery of Marriage. I wish I had known that this was to be expected. During our first decade of marriage, the tectonic plates shifted and pitched me off balance so frequently that I assumed I…
During our first few years of marriage, my husband Ted’s favorite late night companion was the website Free Republic. Free what? Free Republic. That would be an online gathering place for the politically conservative to discuss the latest in politics. You see, prior to our union, freeping – as it’s called – was Ted’s go-to,…
