When my husband and I suffered our first miscarriage in 2012, our marriage suffered immensely. It’s almost as if we were unknowingly looking for children to fix the hurting and ailing parts of our marriage and hearts. At the time, we did not realize that our marriage was shattered in various elements, but after the…
Advertising to the bridal community has done a wonderful job repackaging marriage. In many instances, a wedding has been whittled down to a meager exchange of friendship hearts between best friend or posh celebration at the latest venue . Thumbing through a bridal magazine, brides have clear complexions, effervescent smiles and trim silhouettes. Grooms aren’t vilified;…
A few years ago, my daughter had her first job pet sitting and I felt like, at her still young age, she might need a little bit of back up. We took in a toy poodle for the weekend and things were going smoothly until someone (who shall remain nameless here) let the dog out…
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…
Many have been there. A relationship that, at first, seemed good deteriorates into a boatload of pain when one deeply injures the other with emotionally (or even morally) indefensible behavior. Sometimes, it involves damaging words spewed out in the heat of battle. At other times, repeated actions inescapably wound the heart. Often, it is only…
