Tag: marriage
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Marriage Blog: 16th Wedding Anniversary…16 simple thoughts on marriage.
It’s hard to believe she’s put up with me for 16 years. We’ve had our struggles and challenges but I can’t imagine doing life with anyone else. I thought this week’s marriage blog I’d simply give you 16 Thoughts on marriage: Christ MUST be your foundation. Marriage by itself is hard. I can’t imagine doing it…
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Antagonizing Your Spouse
I’ve got an amazing sister. 3 and a half years younger yet people always wondered if she was older than me. She’s carried the hardworking genes of my parents into her life. An exceptional mother of 5. A nursing student. A wife of a police officer. There are very few that can match the resume…
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Marriage Blog: I Wish You Were…
A sinking boat. It’s the only image that could come to mind when I hear couples use the comparison phrase: “I wish you were more like…” Each time it’s said, it’ s like another hole is being drilled in the bottom of a boat. Every time the quote starts out, more water floods in…threatening to sink…
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7 Habits of Highly Defective Marriages part 7: Curdled Heart
A month ago, we started a new series of seven blogs designed to recognize unhealthy habits. If you missed the last four weeks check out our first FIVE Highly Defective Habits: Habit #1: Spiritual Continuity. Habit #2: The Single Life Habit #3: The Fun-less Couple Habit #4: Criticism Floods Habit #5: Inconsistent Sex Habit #6: Lack…
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7 Habits of Highly Defective Marriages part 6: Lack of Laughter
A month ago, we started a new series of seven blogs designed to recognize unhealthy habits. If you missed the last four weeks check out our first FIVE Highly Defective Habits: Habit #1: Spiritual Continuity. Habit #2: The Single Life Habit #3: The Fun-less Couple Habit #4: Criticism Floods Habit #5: Inconsistent Sex Here we go…#6…
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7 Habits of Highly Defective Marriages: Part 5 Inconsistent Sex
A month ago, we started a new series of seven blogs designed to recognize unhealthy habits. If you missed the last four weeks check out our first FOUR Highly Defective Habits: Habit #1: Spiritual Continuity. Habit #2: The Single Life Habit #3: The Fun-less Couple Habit #4: Criticism Floods Here we go…#5 on the list of my…
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7 Habits of Highly Defective Marriages: Part 3 No Fun
Two weeks ago, we started a new series of seven blogs designed to recognize unhealthy habits. If you missed the last two weeks check out our first TWO Highly Defective Habits: Habit #1: Spiritual Continuity. Habit #2: The Single Life Here we go…#3 on the list of my 7 Habits of Highly Defective Marriages: Habit #3: The…
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New Marriage Series: 7 Habits of Highly Defective Marriages
Some years back, I had come across the famous book “7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” It, to this day, is one of the most sold self-help books ever on the market. Since then there have been so many “spin-off” books that have spawned from the original. My personal favorite was the book “The 7…
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Marriage Series: Catchphrases – Stop saying “I’m Sorry!”
My sole goal of this week’s marriage blog is simple: I want you to stop saying “I’m sorry.” Relax…get ya some tea (Moroccan is my fav)…and I’ll explain. Two weeks ago we began a new series entitled “Marital Catchphrases” in which we look at the random phrases we toss out almost flippantly to our spouses while…
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New Series: Marital Catchphrases – “Yes Dear!”
Proverbs 13:3 “Careful words make for a careful life; careless talk may ruin everything.” (The Message) I’ll share with you a secret about my marriage. Anne and I talk in “catchphrases” from TV show and movies. I don’t know when it began, but somewhere early in our 15 years of marriage, phrases from favorite shows and…
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