It could have gone really really sour. It could have completely ruined my birthday. It could have put a wedge in my marriage. But I did it anyway. I’m at that age where I tell myself “This is what old looks like.” Old, it’s such a relative term, don’t you think? But as each birthday […]
Enjoy this guest post by Dr. Jim Burns today. It’s so good. As the president of HomeWord, Jim is one of the leading experts on marriage and family, and if it’s HomeWord you know it’s going to be good. “Truth in Relationships” Quiz by Dr. Jim Burns Why is it that some marriages die while others […]
I have a husband. I like my husband. Of course, you do, you say, but I know many who don’t like their husband, or their ex-husband. (Get my point?) I’ve been married for over 40 years. So, what’s the secret to staying married for decades and still liking your mate? The secret is in the […]
I never met Riley Boatman. He moved on to heaven from COVID before I had the blessing of getting to know him. But my dear friend, Linda Boatman was his wife, and if he was anything like her—and I suspect he was—he had to be a delightful, inspiring, and joy-filled man. One who encouraged and […]
Some days I can get so focused on me and over consume with the pressures life throws at me. Some days I almost forget there is another person in my life—a husband. A husband who I vowed to love and cherish and adore. A husband who is oh-so-good to me and yet some days I […]
We’ve all heard it said that a marriage will rise and fall on the communication skills of each couple. From the time we say, I do, we have heard that you need good communication for your marriage to last. From the pulpit, from our parents, from our friends we’ve heard the backbone of a thriving […]
In the early years of our marriage my husband and I would do things to try and connect to each other. Sometimes these attempts at reaching toward one another would result in fights. One of us would try to connect and we would connect but it would go sideways and turn into fighting connecting. Not […]
Sometimes I choose to say and do the most destructive things. It all started with being really excited. One of my grandkids has a birthday coming up, and I found the perfect gift. Instead of ordering it myself I wanted to share the thrill with my husband—I didn’t just send him the one perfect gift—I […]
Yesterday was my 40th wedding anniversary. The night before our anniversary I couldn’t sleep which brought me back to the night before my wedding day. On that night I was crying because I feared I was making a mistake, on the night before my 40th anniversary I was tossing and turning because I drank too […]
It can happen subtly. One day you wake up and you can’t seem to find the fireworks in your marriage. In fact, you’d be happy to find just one spark. What happened? We need to investigate these feelings in our marriage and tackle them before they rage out of control. Once the flame has been […]
