Did you know that the average lifespan of the “falling in love” or the “emotional obsession” stage of a relationship is only two years long? This was news to me after hearing Dr. Gary Chapman speak at the Hearts at Home conference, an expo for over 4,000 moms, a couple weeks ago. He and author…
When Ted and I got married, he had a very specific way he liked his T-shirts folded. That would be front side out. The rationale being that he could easily see from the closet shelf which T-shirt he was grabbing. He didn’t need to unfold them in order to figure out if he’d correctly pulled…
One year of marriage is under our, mine and my husband’s, belts, and we have learned A LOT. It is true: there is no marriage book that can prepare a couple for such an intimate institution. The reason being each couple is unique, and knowledge is easier learned than applied (in our experience). However, good…
It was a fairly simple activity. At least, it should have been. Our task? To remember back to the early days of our relationship and share with our church small group the name of “our song” at the time. The message from our pastor that week had been on marriage. So our discussion that evening…
If you’ve been to any type of women’s gathering, odds are good that at some point in the conversation, talk has turned to husband bashing. If not bashing, at least complaining with heavy doses of negativity. And we all know it only takes one spark to start a forest fire. All it takes is one…
