I just had coffee with a single, female colleague that I had not seen in several months. After catching up on job stuff, she began to talk about a budding relationship that she is in. For the most part, it sounded very promising, but… Read More »Completion, Not Reflection
While we want to be comfortable around our spouse, it’s important to realize that it is a fine line between comfort and complacency.
…a slight revision to the Golden Rule that applies to marriage. It goes like this “Do unto others (your spouse) as they want to be done unto”.
I work with people in various levels of marital distress. I like to think that I provide them with Godly counsel and practical advice on how to make their situation better. But the key here is the word – “better”. I didn’t say “perfect”. I… Read More »No Marriage is Perfect
Happy New Year! Yep, it’s that time of year when we all look ahead and make promises to ourselves. The book is blank, and we have 365 days to fill in the content of our life story. We plan to exercise more, eat more sensibly,… Read More »Marriage Resolutions for 2012
I used to work in a large corporate setting. In that environment, I found myself periodically working for and with people that were having extra-marital affairs. It never ceased to amaze me the level of energy and effort these people would exert toward these endeavors.… Read More »Try having an affair!
Picture this. You are at a business function with your husband. You stand loyally at his side throughout the evening and thoroughly enjoy the charm, the warmth and the conversation that he exudes with everyone that he encounters. You see a facet of him that… Read More »The unhealthy games we play – Part 2, Duality
There’s a fascinating study out of Stony Brook University in New York that did brain scans on couples married over 20 years. In many cases individuals can really be in a state of passionate love that was long thought to dissipate after a brief time… Read More »Science proves you can stay in love…