Want a STRONG Marriage? THIS That’s what I’m calling habit number nine for a strong relationship: reach out. Just because. Not because it’s date night. And not because it’s y’all’s anniversary. Not because it’s somebody’s birthday. This is when you just reach out just because. You send the text. And you give […]
In Marriage – Doing Nothing WRONG I went on a walk today. As I’m getting ready to walk outside, I’m standing in the entryway for a good 20–30 seconds just going, “What am I forgetting? What am I forgetting?” I’m touching my pockets, trying to figure out if I have my […]
Scheduling Sex in Marriage? Why you Definitely SHOULD So many married couples ask me this question all the time. Scheduling intimacy. IS that what we have to resort to? Is scheduling intimacy? Putting sex on the calendar and using some sort of code word or phrase so that in case our […]
Regretting Your SUMMER Already?! Do This Now Instead We are two-thirds of the summer in. So there’s a third left. And my question for you is: what of the things that you and your spouse decided that you wanted to make happen this summer—what of them are yet to be done? […]
Today, I have a question for you and it’s THIS: HOW are you STARVING your marriage? Ever so subtle, I know. But for real — What is your energy leak? Where are you suffocating your relationship with your spouse at the cost of something else? On one of my recent walks I noticed […]
Riddle me this: If you were having dinner with the CEO of your company… Your all-time favorite teacher who is now retired and wanted to meet up… Oprah or Mother Teresa… (assuming you respect and esteem them highly) Or your favorite celebrity, someone you LOVE and ADORE and would go to the ends […]
This post is for you IF you are FRUSTRATED that your Spouse isn’t recovering FAST ENOUGH AFTER INFIDELITY. My Red Light/Green Light Experience As I was driving to the office this morning, at one of the intersections, I got stopped at a red light. I was the first one in line […]
This MIGHT just be THE MOST unrecognized BREAKER OF TRUST. Did you know this? You are not who you say are. You are not what you say you’re going to do but never ACTUALLY do. Soooo… The million dollar question is: Are YOU doing this? Meaning: Where you’re saying you’re gonna SAY something, […]
Know Your Impact — First, Story Time With the first snow of the season landing on our lawn, I was reminded of this particular night last winter. We had just spent two weeks at a beach with the whole entire extended family. We were coming back, the flight was a little delayed. […]
I don’t know how we didn’t notice the progress being done. One day, we came back from church, and it was all completed. It’s not like the birds decided to do it in the back of the house somewhere we never go. They built it right here, on top of a light, right […]