The best and worst (read: most squirm-inducing) part of premarital counseling was when our pastor asked us to read Ephesians 5:22-33 and explain what it meant to us. If you are engaged or newly wed, or a woman, I don’t need to tell you this is the passage that begins, “Wives submit to your husbands….”…
They must have just finished a tiring day of wedding dress shopping. From my restaurant booth behind them, I overheard the father say to his daughter across the table, “You better eat light tonight and for that matter for the next 14 months! If you don’t, you’ll get too fat for that dress and I’m…
I stepped back from the mirror to appraise my completed look, my eyes intent on finding and destroying any flaws. Unfortunately, the flaws were numerous and the solutions were few. Rebekah, what are you doing?” I asked myself. I wasn’t like this. Not usually. But somehow it happened that, whenever it came to facing this particular…
Americans adore romance. Almost all of us long to fall truly, deeply, madly in love sometime in our lives. Inspired by cultural myth, movies, magazines and music—according to one count, some 83 percent of pop songs lilt about romance—we search for love in campuses, offices, clubs, fitness gyms and internet sites offering warehouse quantities of…
The most important day of your marriage is the last day. Too many couples put their best energies into the first day. The cake, flowers, clothing, and photos have to be perfect. But while a wonderful first day of marriage is important, it’s the last day that really counts. Will the last day of your…
