Most of us have normal marriages. Not perfect marriages and not Charlie Manson type marriages. Just normal marriages that are both fun and frustrating. The purpose of this blog is to help you enjoy your "less-than-perfect normal marriage."
How the Heart of a Marriage Survives a Near Fatal Heart Surgery
In the following guest post by Debbie Latour, you will hear how a married couple faced a dangerous heart surgery and came out stronger in love, life, and faith. When … Read more
How To Be A Better Person
If you want to know how to be a better spouse and have a better marriage, it starts with learning how to be a better person. Right now, my spouse … Read more
I Learned 3 Simple Marriage Rules From a Preschooler
Last weekend, I learned three simple marriage rules from a preschooler when I picked up my four-year-old granddaughter for a much needed date. It was a standard date for us: getting … Read more
How Parenting Can Improve Partnering
In my last post (How Partnering Can Improve Parenting,) we looked at how improving your marriage could improve your parenting. It stressed the importance of making sure your partnering takes … Read more
How Partnering Can Improve Parenting
We don’t often think of how parenting can improve partnering. Usually, we think of just the opposite…how parenting makes partnering harder. We instantly think of all the demands parenting makes on … Read more
3 Questions for an Ailing Marriage
I’ve discovered three questions you can use to diagnose an ailing marriage. I would like to tell you I discovered these questions while completing my graduate degree in Marriage and … Read more
Trick Questions and Expectations in Marriage
Trick questions can be…well…tricky. For instance, how would you answer this question: “Have you stopped beating your spouse?” Answering this question is tricky, because if you agree, it sounds like … Read more
How Parents Can Bring Out the Best in Their Teenagers
In my last post, How Teenagers Bring Out the Worst in Their Parents, I talked abut the very difficult job of raising teenagers, and how it can effect parents. In … Read more
How Teenagers Bring Out the Worst in Their Parents
I typically write posts focused on marriage, but this post is going to veer more into the area of parenting. Specifically, parenting teenagers, and more specifically, how teenagers bring out the … Read more
Getting Over the Wall of Resentment
Resentment can be like a wall that separates spouses, and the longer the wall stays up, the harder it is to get over it. Walls of resentment can become so … Read more