Tag: marriage
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A Demotivated Marriage
There’s a company called “Despair Inc.” Yes they are real. Their statement is: “We’ve been demotivating people since we were founded in Dallas in 1998. We’re currently based in Austin, where we employ a small group of very bitter, depressed Texans.” They’re responsible for posters like: and With statements like “AT DESPAIR, WE OFFER THE CURE FOR…
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“Tone Deaf Marriage”
I’ve met both extremes. I had a friend in bible college who, at parties, we’d make sit at a keyboard while we sing random notes. Almost instantaneously, she’d play the exact note. No mistakes. She can pick out any tones, notes, and/or pitches and play or sing them. She’s very talented musically. I have another…
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Holding Your Spouse Captive
My mind goes to a childhood experience. On a family vacation to San Diego, we had taken a day to go across the border to Mexico. At a local flea market, I saw a pair of handcuffs and just had to have them. After a day of pleading with my dad and him haggling with…
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Sexual Atrophy
I use sticky notes quite a bit. I get ideas for this blog, and I’ll use them. There’s one that has been stuck to the surface of my desk for a month. It has two words at the top…one specifically that I haven’t been able to let go of. Atrophy. It was 2005 and I…
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Fragile?: Week 3 of developing a heathy marital stance on intimacy.
We head into week 3 of our series on sex. I’ll begin with a simple TRUTH: Sex is God’s wedding gift to us. Now I understand that doesn’t seem very mind-blowing. But with how much of a mockery the enemy has made intimacy, some within the church have steered away from the subject of sex.…
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Stop being Swiss
The weekly marriage blog has been a thrill to do. In February, I’m going to focus the marriage blog on the subject of sex. Being Valentines month, it comes as an easy topic to discuss. Other than finances, it is still the biggest struggle points in marriage…but I’ll save the words for next week. From…
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Kissing Lessons
To quote Porthos in the “Three Musketeers,” he told D’Artagnan “The secret…is in the first kiss for in that first kiss a lasting impression is made. Right, ladies? If it is weak she’ll think you’re weak. If it is comical she’ll think you’re a clown. (…) And as a musketeer is never weak and only rarely a clown…
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Using a Hammer to Fix Your Spouse
I like to think myself as a decent handy man. I recognize I don’t come off that way. I’m clumsy. I get hurt easy. And yes I did once glue my knee to a tile while redoing my bathroom. But overall, I’m pretty good. Because of that side of me, one of my favorite things…
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7 Years of Bad Luck
I’m backing out of my garage today. I am going out with my family on my day off. There’s a reason why Anne warns me, every Friday, about the trash can. You see, Friday is “trash day” and, one morning, she was taking Cammi to the bus stop and forgot about the trash can. The…
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The Marital Kiss of Death
A marriage thought came off of a quote I came across. Oswald Chambers says, “Some of us are like the Dead Sea,always taking in,never giving out,because we’re not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.” My thought: We have the capability to turn our marriages into the Dead Sea. How does that happen? Selfishness. Bear with me…
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