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.
Marriage Monday: 5/28/07
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Marriage Monday
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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…
Marriage Monday: Nag, Nag, Nag
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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.…
Marriage Monday: Expectations
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“… let’s introduce each other to the women we were when we met and married our husbands…. Once you have painted a picture of yourself then, show us who you are now…. “ I was a young bride, but not a naïve bride. We had gone through a bit that had caused us to mature faster than many people our age. I definitely wanted to be the perfect wife for him, but I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to do that do to some difficulties that we faced. I had a lot to learn about being a wife. With…
Marriage Monday: Encouragement
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For this week’s Marriage Monday over at Fruit in Season, we are being asked to talk about ways that we lift up and encourage our husbands. This is one that I can easily write about as D has recently told me some of the things that I have done recently (and in the past) that really encourage and lift him up. It’s always nice when we get a nice little bit of help in that area. One of the main ways that I can really lift up and encourage my husband is by making sure our daughter and our home…