“There is no way I am spending another Christmas with your family,” complained Darla. “In the past five years we’ve never spent time with my folks on any of the holidays. You know how I feel about this!” Ken slammed his coffee down on the kitchen table. “I am so tired of having this argument….
God says in His Word “where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18) The same can be said for marriages. If you do not have a vision, a plan and a goal for your marriage, your marriage will perish. My husband married a broken and damaged woman. I had no sense of self-worth,…
They say that the best lovers are the ones who are the best learners. The best lovers have more than sexual sizzle, since loving someone well requires that we pay attention and learn the nuanced ways of our loved ones: do they like gentle back tickles or more robust get-that-itch scratches? Should the peanut butter be crunchy…
A friend of mine commented the other day that the majority of my posts on Start Marriage Right revolve around divorce. I read through some of my posts and she is right—so this post is going to be different. I am going to share about my mom’s parents’ marriage. They were Afrikaans so we addressed them…
I asked my husband what advice he would give, in hindsight and with twenty-three years of married life behind him, to a young couple contemplating marriage. His reply: “Don’t get married!” (He assured me he was only joking!) There is a great deal of truth in that answer, however. If you are not prepared to compromise—don’t…
