Prescription for an Unhappy Marriage
Keep checking if you are loved, if you are respected
Keep checking whether you are getting all you expected
Prescription for a Happy Marriage
Keep checking if you are overlooking loving acts or signs of respect
Keep checking whether you are getting goodness you never expected
Simple, no?
Having trouble communicating about the issues in your marriage? You may not be speaking the same language. “We need to stop spending so much money.” It’s a simple statement of an opinion, yet an utterly uninviting, unencouraging one. We could use some alternatives. “I’m looking forward to doing a lot of things together after the kids are grown and we’re...
Are you one of those parents who did not have great role models for marriage as you were growing up? Did you have to discover some of the skills for sustaining an intimate relationship on your own? Me, too. And as you know if you have read my Author page, it took a huge whack upside the head for me to catch on. So, what would I teach a daughter if I had one still in middle school or high school...
“My mother always said when you get married, you stay married, and she meant that.” That’s what Verbal Isenhower has to say on the occasion of the 81st anniversary of her marriage to Vern Isenhower. They married on Jan. 26, 1929. Verbal was 16, Vern was 17, and the two of them had grown up on adjoining farms in Arkansas. Now they live in Louisburg, Kansas. Happy anniversary...
I have two this year: Find more creative Third Alternatives when we disagree – We disagree a lot, so I will have lots of opportunity here. A good Third Alternative combines delighting my husband with getting what I want, always a pure delight. I intend to reach out to my creative friends and my readers to come up with even better alternative whenever we think there are just two and we...
