I can hardly believe I’ve been married to my stud of a husband for ten years. He was 19 when we got married and I had just turned 20. I want to tell you that it’s been ten years of bliss, but any married folk would probably agree with me that marriage isn’t easy. It’s…
Several years ago my sister-in-law returned from a trip with matching jackets for my husband and me. When we tried on the army green fleece jackets, we couldn’t help but laugh at our reflection in the mirror. While it was cute for us to dress alike, it was obvious that the jacket looked better on…
Dale and I experienced very different backgrounds. He came from a small, close-knit, Protestant family and grew up in Southern California. I grew up in a large, blended Catholic family in upstate New York, so our family experiences were quite different from each other’s. We also grew up more than a decade apart, so our…
The past few weeks, God will not leave me alone. He keeps asking me to serve my husband by letting go of some major items we disagree on. Why did He keep putting this on my heart? I felt as though I was right and Caleb was wrong. Wouldn’t yielding my opinion be seen as…
For a talky-mctalkson like myself, going to premarital counseling was heaps of fun. What could be better than hours and hours of talking about us, understanding us, building us-skills, and all under the watchful and loving eye of a mentor? A few weeks into it, a friend asked how premarital counseling was going. “Aren’t you…
