“A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the other twenty percent that she would like to change, and she may chip away at it for the whole of their married life without reducing it by very much. She may, on ... VIEW POST

The personal growth movement is big thing these days.  I love personal growth. But then the world tells you that your life is, in the end, about your personal growth.  So it goes to follow that my marriage should also help me achieve that personal growth.   And that personal growth ... VIEW POST

How many of you if the right person had compassion and empathy in their eyes, and asked, what’s troubling you, deep down in your soul? That at the right moment it would all come tumbling out in a mess of tears and run-on sentences? When you can admit, I am so not okay. There’s more of us in ... VIEW POST

Happiness is often a result of what happens to me.If I want to be happy, I just need good stuff to happen to me, right? Joy is not about what happens to me. Joy is rooted in what Jesus has done for me. Joy is God’s work in my heart, not what life throws at me. Joy is in the perspective that ... VIEW POST

Does your marriage have that perpetual problem? You know, the same argument, the same exact conversation, where you say the same exact things and end up in the same spot. One behavior triggers a behavior in the other person, and you both know it was the other person that started it. At least that’s ... VIEW POST

I know the popular thing to do these days is to “find yourself”, and whatever you do, don’t “lose yourself” in a relationship…. oops. Yeah, I have been with Joe since I was 16, so do I even know who I really am outside of this relationship? Would I walk away from this kind of love to try to find ... VIEW POST