Because we're mere days away from Valentine's Day, it seemed fitting to gather up everything I've learned about love and marriage into one place. I hope it encourages you or maybe helps to put a little fire back into your marriage. Cheers to love. 1. Marriage is hard work. Become okay with this. … [Read more...] about 50 Little Lessons on Love + Marriage
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In Which I Share the Hard, Gritty Parts of Marriage
Sunday morning, early hours, the sun’s barely awake, and Lane is out the door again, this time for three weeks. Back and forth, in and out. Are you here or there? Home or not? Is it me alone again? But this is what’s required and this is what we want to do and so this is what we do. Is it … [Read more...] about In Which I Share the Hard, Gritty Parts of Marriage
This is the kind of love that will heal a broken heart
Were you to ask how I’ve been doing, I’d probably say fine. Because really, we’re fine, it’s been fine. Hasn’t it all been fine? And then it’s entirely obvious we’re not fine at all. I wouldn’t say I’ve been completely aware of all of the things building into this crescendo, because so much of … [Read more...] about This is the kind of love that will heal a broken heart
Love Is Not Losing Your Mind Over the Not Important Things
We’re sitting at the table in the morning, sun not quite yet up, coffee cups in our hands, waking up slow and gently and together. It’s this togetherness that throws me off, not the waking up early part. Two hundred and thirty days gone and then with the landing of a plane he’s back and the normal … [Read more...] about Love Is Not Losing Your Mind Over the Not Important Things
Hey Wives? This is What Happens When We Finally Let Our Husbands Off The Hook.
I know, I know, he was late again- didn’t get home until after 7:00 and you were planning on 5:00. And there’s his piles of junk all over the counter. Also- also!- he was falling asleep on the couch right when you needed to talk to him about that important thing. If your husband were around more, … [Read more...] about Hey Wives? This is What Happens When We Finally Let Our Husbands Off The Hook.
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I’m gonna get pretty real with y’all here. As if I don’t already. In the terrible moment when I was saying goodbye to Lane for the year, some of the final words I said to him were: I will be faithful to you. Melodramatic? Awkward? I don’t know. But I said it because I needed to. I … [Read more...] about we need to talk about affairs