There’s a simple formula that I use with clients in my counseling practice: Get you, be you, give you. This is the life process of maturing, and is a helpful mantra to live by. The problems occur when we try and do this formula in reverse, because one can’t give what one doesn’t have. We…
I fielded a range of questions right after I got engaged. Some were about my wedding colors. Some were about the dress I hadn’t even bought yet or the date that hadn’t been set, but then I had a few people ask me how I knew I was ready for marriage. Unfortunately, there aren’t three…
Did you expect to have a nice sparkly diamond (or a rough, manly band) decorating that finger by now? Perhaps you were in a relationship heading towards marriage, but, for one reason or another, it didn’t work out in the end. Or perhaps you’re still patiently waiting for the right one to show up. You’re…
Q: “I was previously in a very emotionally/mentally abusive relationship. My current boyfriend and I are very serious and are working on preparing for marriage. He loves the Lord and me very much, what more could I ask for … but yet I still fear he’s going to abuse me like my previous boyfriend. He’s…
What words come to your mind when you think of trust?” I asked my husband while we were driving down the road the other day. I told him how I wanted to write my next article on trust. While he thought about the question for a little bit, I chimed in: “Because you know, marriages fail…
