The most difficult and challenging thing I have ever done in my life is to stay married. The second most difficult and challenging thing I have ever done is to have children. Both of these life events have also been filled with extreme joy, peace and happiness as well as horrific sadness, many, many tears…
Fifteen years ago a catastrophic event took the life of golfer Payne Steward. Headed for a Florida tournament, his plane flew beyond its destination for 5 hours before crashing in a South Dakota farm field. This tragedy resulted from a drop in air pressure. As the plane climbed in elevation, air slowly leaked out of…
His comment caught me off-guard. Since I was speaking at a youth conference about teens and technology, I figured the dad waiting to speak with me wanted to talk about his crazy texting teenager. But he didn’t come to talk about his daughter. He came to talk about his wife. You see, this man was…
I began an argument in a previous article on why pre-engagement counseling makes more sense than pre-marital counseling. You can read that article here: Center Stage. While I do believe in pre-marital counseling, I offer a few reasons why it makes sense to put your relationship under the microscope before the proposal. Process over content…
It didn’t take much effort for me to gain what I label the “newlywed 20.” What’s that exactly? Well, that would be the 20 pounds I packed on in my first four months of marriage. No joke. Yep, I was one of those women who after successfully avoiding the freshman 15 in college, wasn’t so…
