Have you ever been in a dressing room and accidentally tried on a pair of pants that were one or two sizes too small? You stuff yourself into them and just barely get the zipper closed. If you were to try to function in your everyday life wearing these ill-fitting pants, it wouldn’t be long…
“Linda has a great need for social interaction, so she takes the lead on planning and arranging our social life,” Rick says. “Getting together with our family and our small group are two regular events for us. I know Linda needs social interaction, so I go along for the ride. I don’t need it as…
Dale and I experienced very different backgrounds. He came from a small, close-knit, Protestant family and grew up in Southern California. I grew up in a large, blended Catholic family in upstate New York, so our family experiences were quite different from each other’s. We also grew up more than a decade apart, so our…
Every man desires to know just how much they are appreciated and how well we think they are doing. I mean let’s be real, don’t we want a little praise every now and again ourselves? The thing is when talking to women who have been married for some time several have told me they didn’t…
“Communicating with kindness is so important,” Jennifer says. “In the early years of our marriage, we dealt with a lot of difficult things; our ex’s for starters, and then Ben’s son Jeff, who struggles with bipolar disorder, moving in with us were a couple of the toughest difficulties. At that time, my young teen daughter…
