Category: Christian Life

What is your definition of a traditional marriage? Do you consider yours to be traditional or contemporary?What scriptures do you turn to (if any) when determining your role in your marriage?In the sharing of duties in your home (childcare, work, house cleaning), are you and your husband satisfied with the way things get done? If not, how would you or he like it to change? My idea of a traditional marriage is a marriage where the man is the head of the household and the bread winner. The wife plays the role of the support system for the husband. This…

It’s a holiday weekend! So in that spirit our topic on Monday will be vacations, dates and other times away. Here are some questions to ponder this weekend: Do you take vacations as a family, with just your husband, or both?What are those vacations like? Do they wear you out or refresh you?Do you schedule regular date nights? If so, do you talk about your children (if you have them) or have a children-free-conversation rule?Do you have family out of town and if so, how often do you visit them? Is it stressful or relaxing to visit? How do all…

Marriage Monday will not be posted today as poor Christine over at Fruit in Season is ill as our several of her family members. Please keep them in your prayers that they will recover quickly.

Christine has asked us to discuss how children have affected our marriage. Having a child greatly affected our marriage in that adding a little one to your life means less “me” time and less “couple” time. It means that someone else comes first. You start thinking about how your actions with affect your child’s life. You view the world through the eyes of a parent. We talked about having kids long before we ever got married. We always thought that we’d have at least 2 kids. D came from a large family and I had only 1 sibling. We both…

Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife.A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day; restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand. Proverbs 21:19 and 27:15-16 “Ouch! I wonder if Solomon had experience with a “quarrelsome wife”? Have you ever been one? Are you prone to nagging and criticism? How have you seen this kind of behavior affect your husband, or others’ husbands if you are not a nagger?” These are the questions posed for today’s Marriage Monday over at Christine’s blog Fruit in Season.…