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What Your Partner Really Wants

Tarah Avery
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The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well being of the one you love. -Dr. Gary Chapman Does it ever feel like your significant other is speaking in a foreign tongue? Well, feel better, dear one, because most likely that’s exactly what’s happening. Imagine with me that two people…

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Yes, Your Marriage Really Can Be Awesome!

Have you ever experienced someone telling you how awful marriage is? When I was engaged someone told me, “Either your first year will be terrible and then it will get better or your first year will be great and then your second year will be terrible.” Gee, thanks for the encouragement! My first year of…

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Love as a Second Language

The last time I wrote, I posed this question: Wouldn’t it be nice if our first inclination was to love our spouse in the way he or she needed to be loved? Let’s probe that a bit deeper. First, wouldn’t if be nice if our first inclination was to love another? Secondly, wouldn’t it be…

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Speaking a New Language

There are nights when I work late, sometimes not touching the cold January door knob of my home until 8:45 PM. Meanwhile one of my daughters fights off sleep to wait up for me. She listens for my whisper as I walk in the house, “Are the girls asleep yet?” The next thing my wife…