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…
What can you do if your spouse is abusive … or depressed … or addicted? How do you live with someone who won’t communicate? In his latest book, Dr. Gary Chapman tackles all of these difficult situations, and more. As he addresses each challenge, he offers strong encouragement and practical instruction. This new release comes…
Fear almost cost me my marriage. No, divorce was never an option; at least in the legal sense. But we were divorced in an emotional sense. Did you know that you can be emotionally divorced from your spouse? When trust is injured, vulnerability wounded and intimacy scarce, emotional divorce occurs. Like a small turtle who crept out of his…
Neither did I. Somewhere along our marriage timeline, though, he became one. Yesterday at church we served in the nursery. We don’t particularly love this gig (don’t tell anyone), but we do it once a month for a lot of compelling reasons. Bill surprised me when we signed up by choosing the “large group teacher”…
We’d been married only a year and were ecstatic to find that Missy was pregnant. The realization ushered our marriage to a new level of intimacy and sense of family. We no longer passed by the baby section in Target, but dove in, aisle by aisle, soaking up our new environment with elation. Our evenings…
