Let me make one thing perfectly clear before you read on: disappointment in relationships is inevitable, so we must learn to brace for impact. Because, inevitably, we’re all bound to make mistakes. But there is a clear difference between a mistake, and an excuse in terms of negative behavior in dating, relationships and even marriage. So […]
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For Christmas, my husband got me a couple books on marriage. Yes, we’re one of those couples. Not because we need the help – we find there is always room for learning and improving in a marriage. Even in our summer season. Speaking of seasons – that’s what one of the books is called, The
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We’ve all been there – allowing one bad to outweigh every single good in our marriage. I know I’ve been there – through times when I believed my husband’s priority of the marriage was slipping, when I needed him to be more supportive and accepting of my insecurities and us maintaining the drive we had
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Good communication starts with listening, but that would all be so easy to understand if we all communicated the same. Of course not – men and women both communicate and listen differently. Yet there’s one similarity that is part of our human nature – we all want to be heard. We need to be willingly
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Not just because the timing is so fitting with Thanksgiving around the corner, but I want to dedicate a post as to why I am thankful for my husband. The hardworking, bear-hugging, goofy, encouraging, hilarious, and most loving man I’ve known. As well as give a little #tbt to some pictures from our engagement shoot
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I do love my husband. And I think I love him more for the things I wasn’t expecting to – for the things I never saw in him while we were dating, honestly. So I think I really lucked out with that one. But in reality, nothing in this world truly prepared me for marriage.
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Do I think chivalry is dead? No. At times I wonder if it’s just at an infinite downward spiral, or that it has turned into a zombie apocalypse. Chivalry just needs the antidote to bring it back to life again. Now, I could go all in and say that men are becoming lazy in terms
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Both men and women communicate very differently. This is because most women find talking and sharing thoughts, feelings, and emotions as a form of intimacy. While most men, on the other hand, treat communication as a tool for logic, solving problems, or “getting to a point“. Maybe the lightbulb went on – maybe it didn’t. That’s
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I can’t think of how many times I wished cell phones, computers, Ipads and tablets didn’t exist. I say that, and here I am typing away at this post. But I can’t help but dwell on the fact that technology holds such power in this world – and in our relationships. I mean, technology has
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One of the most difficult yet inevitable moments in relationships are dealing with conflict. Nobody actually enjoys arguing with their SO (well, some do, which is a whole other thing), but it’s part of our natural instincts to either 1. Find a solution, 2. Run away from the problem or 3. Seek validation from others about how
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