Nuggets

Do you remember the lessons you were taught in school about how to listen constructively and to do so with a willingness to understand and not just to respond? NO?? Well, neither do I. It didn’t happen. See if this looks about right for you. For whatever reason you begin a discussion on any difficult […]

(Part 1 of several One thing for sure, you cannot wiggle your nose and hope your marriage is just going to get better on its own. It does not work that way, no matter how much you wish it would. Since our society doesn’t teach you how to ‘get it right,’ you MUST take deliberate

I left you last week in the uncomfortable position of what to do when the new wears off in marriage. All too often the decision is to quit and start over or just stay together and make each other miserable. Fortunately there are other options. Wise couples take deep breaths and a step back to

Yes! In a perfect world your soul mate would come toward you in slow motion across a field of daisies with background music from the King and I, “Some Enchanted Evening…” Theologically, I embrace the idea there is ONE someone to whom and with whom you would be perfectly suited for life and love and

I left you last week with the proposition that how you were raised colors your choice of mate. Here’s how. In some more anecdotal rather than science observations, over an over again we have seen how couples tend to draw into relationship the best and worst characteristics of the people who raised them. Now here

I bet the answers will surprise some of you. How many of you have talked about ‘falling-in-love.?’ I have a hard time with ‘falling’…you FALL off a horse, you FALL down stairs. The way I see it, FALLING hurts. So, let’s go back a long way to the days of the caveman. How did they

The memorial service was Saturday for a friend who lost his life in a tragic accident when he was almost home on a new motorcycle. He was a vigorous active man…a loving husband with grown children. He was a believer in Jesus Christ…active in his church. Out of season, cutting short a life we expected

Homemade cotton face masks, had to be sanitized each evening, boxes of nitrile gloves, homemade hand sanitizer, more hand washing than Major Winchester of M*A*S*H, getting well acquainted with my bride, EverClear in place of Lysol to make disinfectant spray, getting neighbors to go to the grocery store for us, turning half roles of paper