What is love? We ask the question during seminars but usually get blank stares. Not that people don’t know the answer, but they usually surmise (correctly) that we are up to something. Everyone has an idea of what love is; the more “enlightened” will launch into the Greek variations of love, but most people equate…
I asked my husband what advice he would give, in hindsight and with twenty-three years of married life behind him, to a young couple contemplating marriage. His reply: “Don’t get married!” (He assured me he was only joking!) There is a great deal of truth in that answer, however. If you are not prepared to compromise—don’t…
Now in our third trimester of our first pregnancy, my husband and I have learned about each other and a good deal about pregnancy and baby things—many to our surprise. From the first time we heard our baby’s heartbeat—my husband had to hold on to the counter to keep from falling over—to our 20-week ultra…
“Sorry, I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not today.” If you’ve ever visited the Shire—whether in print or on the silver screen—you may recognize these as the words of one of its most famous residents, Bilbo Baggins. “We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures,” he informs Gandalf the Grey in…
John came into marriage counseling ready to bolt from his relationship with his wife because he claimed either she never seriously listened to him or she dismissed the importance of his feelings about almost everything. “What’s the point of being married, if two people are merely living one person’s life!”, he said. His wife cried…
