You could say my husband Ted, at times, is a Christian fatalist. Oh, not the type who eventually goes agnostic, as one writer asserts can happen, but the happy sort. The kind who insists that his Type-A prone bride anticipate something will inevitably go wrong at their wedding…and does it all with a smile and…
I was sitting in the driver’s seat of my car. My husband was replacing one of the front brakes. “Pump the brake pedal until it gets hard to push.” He called out. I’d pump the brake and then hold it until he told me to release it. This procedure went on several more times before…
Oftentimes in marriage, there is a partner with a stronger personality–the “vocal representative” in the relationship. The person with the stronger personality is often the one who ends up being “boss.” Sometimes they give their opinion readily and expect it to be followed. Other times, their big personality simply is one that starts to rub…
Sitting around and drinking coffee, my friend and I were sharing wedding night stories. Having both been married a few years, we were flashing back to our first night with our husbands and how we really had no idea what we were getting into. My friend, Ashley, had a vision of what she wanted her…
What am I doing? The question echoed in my head as I sat hunched over with the phone pressed to my ear. I thought about how eagerly I had run to take this call, my heart racing to hear the sound of his voice. I had been regularly setting aside my schedule for hours at…
