My husband finally loves Christmas. No, this is not about the holidays, but it is about something that happens to me during the flurry of activity that accompanies anything I’m in charge of. Like Christmas at our house. Bill named this setting on my dial machine-gun mode, and I think it feels good. Things need…
Somedays you just don’t feel like fighting. The niggling little things your husband does seem funny for some reason, or perhaps you’re so intent on enjoying the delicious spring weather that you don’t even notice the standard aggravations. Other days, well, what do you do on those other days? Today, I’m having one of those…
Some of the differences you may have as a couple probably attracted you to one another initially, but when you live with those differences 24/7, they can also be frustrating, confusing, exasperating, and unnerving if you let them. Dealing with them well is very much about attitude. “When we went to the premarital classes, we…
Q: We haven’t even been married 2yrs yet and my husband is telling his friends he wants a divorce after every fight. Do you think he means it? What should I do? A (Gary Chapman): He probably is very discouraged because fighting is discouraging. No one wins in a fight. Even if you win the…
Near the end of our first year of marriage, Bill and I told some friends we needed a mini-retreat just for the two of us, but we couldn’t afford it. We had some decisions to pray and talk about. I forget what they were, but they were important enough to merit a day in a…
