This Relationship Profile is designed to increase your awareness of your personal style of relating those you date. The more clarity you have about yourself and the person you are dating and want to spend time more with, the less likely you will be to repeat past mistakes. Creating healthy relationships begins with understanding of…
1. I miss my family, but not how I expected. I love my family and how they provided such a loving home. However, now that I’ve left to “cleave” —I see how important it is to leave them behind and become one with my husband. 2. My in-laws and I don’t talk much. Not every…
My husband intensely dislikes social settings. We go to parties, and he smiles and tells jokes. You would never know that inside he is a big ball of nerves. His idea of fun is going out into the yard alone and getting his hands dirty—he works hard and crashes into bed exhausted at the end…
If you are, or ever have been, engaged, you may be aware that people you haven’t even spoken to in years come out of the woodworks to offer you “wedding inspiration”. It was the same for me, and I obliged them as they recalled details from their weddings some twenty years ago, or informed me…
When I first got married, I really enjoyed asking seasoned couples this question: If you could give only one piece of advice to a newly married couple, what would it be? You might think it would be things like pray together, be kind to each other, spend time together…which are the great answers I expected….
