Nuggets

Have you ever felt like your marriage was in a rut? It is a scary place to be. Left untended a rut will produce a parallel relationship. Have you and your spouse become a parallel marriage? Like a couple of railroad rails…disappearing in the distance, but never coming together. A rut does not happen suddenly […]

Any time you hear or see a story of a quest to climb Everest, the unsung heroes are the mountain guides or sherpas of high in the Himalayas. They lead you, protect you and guide you, but here’s one bit of information that most people don’t know unless they’ve worked alongside a sherpa. One recently

Lisa Penn-James offered these golden tips on a Better Marriages Group site on LinkedIn I follow. I published this back in 2015, and it’s so good I need to see it again These are dynamite! Sheila Wrey Gregoire is a Christian author of 7 books and a frequent speaker to women’s groups and marriage conferences.

Remember when you first met your husband or wife and fell in love, (there is that word FELL again…something associated with getting hurt…IMHO) you thought about them day and night. You couldn’t wait to be together; you hung on every word they spoke. You could sit up til all hours on the phone and then

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1) We’ve got a clock in nearly every room in our home. The one I like the best projects time on the ceiling at night so I don’t have to prop up on one elbow and look over Barb to

I have often said our cultural system sets up relationships and families to fail. There is no coordinated effort to prepare relationships for permanence and marriage. For example, Forbes has published: Despite this, the practice continues. The “normal” assumption is 1) find someone who will have you, 2) buy a license, and you are automatically

 Somebody once said there is one constant in life, and that’s change. Every day is a new day, and with each passing month and year your life will look different from the last. Some change is bad, but likely most of it can be viewed as good. It’s all about perspective and what you choose

Good morning, my Father and my God, thank You that You have been my strength in times past, and You have continued to support and strengthen me through every scene of my life. May Your name be on my lips day and night and be glorified forever and ever. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

God can use the annoyances of marriage to school you inis love. Borrowed and adapted from Leslie Vernick It was one of those crazy weeks: deadlines looming, clients in crisis, dirty dishes scattered throughout the house. In a moment of frustration, I yelled at my husband, “You never help me around the house!”    That was

Is that quick goodbye kiss before you part ways in the morning really critical to the success of your marriage? It might seem small and inconsequential, but in the context of relationship rituals, it can actually be quite meaningful. Much research has shown that rituals have an overwhelmingly positive effect on marriage. They create and