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Is Marriage or Divorce Harder?
“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.” Wayne Gretzky All relationships end. This includes your marriage. The only questions are when and how. Traditional marriage vows say “until death”. But divorce is both a real, and fairly common,...
Do This to Transform Your Wife’s Anger
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. Epictetus There’s a philosophy in several forms of martial arts that the path to success is to turn your foe’s energy against them. A similar idea...
Is Your Wife Always Mad at You?
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable. David Augsberger Does it seem like no matter what you do, your wife always seems to be mad at you? If so, you’re probably hurt, confused, or...
Stop Accepting the Unacceptable from Your Wife
"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable." Dennis Waitley Are there things happening in your marriage that aren’t okay with you? If you said “yes”, I have a question. Why are you allowing it? I’ve...
The Love Languages: Helpful or Hype?
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." Alexander Smith Have you heard about the 5 Love Languages? They were introduced to the world in 1992 by Baptist pastor Gary Chapman. He developed his theory as he worked to...
Love (and Life) Lessons from Jonesie the Cat
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” –Thomas Campbell Last week at this time I was processing the imminent death of my beloved, 100 degree, almost as soft as a chinchilla, 14 ½ year old bundle of fur. Yes, I am a cat person. Yes, she was named after the...
Intimacy Starts with Conversation
"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him." Hedy Lamarr I remember falling in love with my husband. We met at my older sister’s graduation from law school in Colorado. He was her husband’s best...
Can Men and Women Just Get Along?
"Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers." Gloria Steinem I was reading a blog by Timothy Diehl on the All Pro Dad website and he mentioned a hashtag he saw on his daughter’s social media feed: #killallmen Think about that for a moment....
Are You a Passive Husband?
"A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance." Hunter S. Thompson By a passive husband, I mean you are physically present but mentally elsewhere. And if you are less than an active partner in your...
Are You Frustrated by Your Marriage?
"We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. "L. Lionel Kendrick If you’re like most people, the answer to this question is yes. At least some of the time. A better question is why you’re...