Keep the time between the point of conflict with someone and resolving it with them as short as possible. Conflict comes in all shapes and sizes, with varying degrees of cause and intensity. If our lives involve other people, conflict is inevitable. Especially in marriage where living with someone is full time. Conflict can give … More The Time Between
In the middle of this strangely “claimed” month of June, with its propagation of confusion, chaos, and desperate attempts at inclusion, stands an iconic date…Father’s Day. An annual day to celebrate fathers. Everyone has a father. And everyone came into this world because they were fathered, meaning, it took a man’s sexual activity with a woman to father … More Father’s Day, An Iconic Day in a Month under Siege
Dear Katrina and Dathan, Your request was simple… Dad, can you also fill out a card at our engagement party, “Advice and Wishes”? When I began, I soon found that a postcard size wouldn’t cut it. So as I’ve been known to do… I made a post. This one is specific for you, with love. … More A Father’s Blessing… ‘Advice and Wishes’
Certain days on the calendar give opportunity to show a little extra love to our significant other. Sometimes our love is a little misaligned though, because we simply have not loved someone in the way they best feel loved. Ever give a gift that didn’t seem to be received that well? How we best feel … More Can you LOVE me like THIS? Part 1 (b)
Christmas and Marriage meet “In order to keep our expectations of love for each other realistic, we must look deeper and wider than our love for one another. We must look to the source of LOVE. Even when we love each other well… when we continuously learn and grow to do this in creative new … More Can you LOVE me like this? Part 3
Imagine this. Discover and understand emotional needs and then share them with your spouse… a KEY to unlocking deeper emotional oneness and satisfaction in marriage? It’s true. It enables us to communicate ways in which we best feel loved, ways best fitting our emotional needs. It allows for a deepened understanding of each other, and … More Can you love me like this? Part 2, ‘How I best feel loved’
Sometimes our love for our spouse is a little misaligned because we simply do not tell them how we best feel loved. Talk it out. Spell it out for each other. And then ask, “Can you love me like this?”
“Far too often drift in marriage occurs for so long, that we come to hardly know or recognize the person we are married to. Even worse, we start not liking them or seeking needs and wants filled by someone else.” Mark Wanders Some days life can be difficult even in the little things. Take for … More How 90 Minutes Can Strengthen Your Marriage
Marriage life can be busy. And in no time at all we can become so wrapped up in our own things we lose sight of the togetherness aspect of it and drift far from the person who was supposed to be our best friend. What if we regularly invested in island retreats…islands of clarity? Belize … More Islands of Clarity
On our wedding day our vows seem so easy to say. We’re so in love. Everyone else’s marriage had trouble, but somehow our marriage is going to be different. It’s almost like we’ll live happily ever after. And then situations in life occur that were supposed to only happen to other people. Trials. Of many … More Together… till death do us part.
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