Like many typical women, I love romantic comedies. There is something so exciting about boy meeting girl, boy and girl "falling" in love, boy and girl fighting, and then boy and girl getting back together again. Movies of this sort repeatedly have the same plot with different characters. It is not uncommon to get to the end of a romantic comedy, or a romantic drama, and hear the main characters tell each other things like, "You're all that I need," or "You are my everything!" In the moment, it can seem like such a wonderfully romantic phrase, but in a real life relationship, phrases like those … [Read more...]

This is my 100th post on this blog, so I wanted to make sure it was very important... so, I decided to talk about the first year of marriage. The impact of what you do in your first year of marriage is huge. Did you hear me? Okay, I'll say it again.... The impact of what you do in your first year of marriage is HUGE! Why? The first year is when you both create your "normal." Before marriage, assuming that you have not lived together before marriage, you have no idea how living with this person will look like (and even if you've lived with him or her prior to marriage, you still don't know what … [Read more...]

When I was younger, I was obsessed with the idea of getting married. At the time, I was not ready for marriage, which I knew; but, I was obsessed with worrying that he – whoever he was – would never come. What would I do if he never came? Yesterday, all of those feelings came back to my mind; and after six years of marriage, it seems silly to me that I spent all that time worrying when God, in His perfect plan, showed up at just the right time. Shortly after getting married, I started thinking about having babies. This is not uncommon for many women; but, after waiting to be a mother for a … [Read more...]