Marriage

In my marriage, date nights are a must. After a dozen years of marriage, there’s still nothing quite like a night out with my husband that makes me reconnect, recenter, and remember that what [...]

Jesus was calling shotgun in my life long before I actually heard him, and then even longer still before I actually let him in the seat. Now, I know what you might be thinking—Jesus should be in [...]

Here we are just starting the year and I’m already slipping in my 2022 goals. Every year I attempt to plan, set goals, and change how I’ll approach the new year. Every year I don’t even make it [...]

I've always known that my wife is a rock star spouse and mom. What I didn't realize is how taking on one chore of hers for a week would cause me to better understand her. I've seen the same [...]

There’s a saying, “If we both agreed on everything, one of us wouldn’t be necessary.”

CHERISH (an excerpt from Alter Girl) Within the overarching sacrament of marriage, I’ve been delighted throughout the years to discover all the additional sacraments tucked inside. One that my [...]

Less than a year after we were married, my husband shoved my sister against the side of a car and told her he never wanted to see her again. And so began the worst period of my life. In [...]

There’s this great movie called Failure to Launch about a guy named Tripp who's in his thirties and still living with his parents. The story line follows Tripp as he meets a woman, falls in love [...]

I’m a marriage counselor, and it’s rare to meet couples that agree on one of the most common questions I get asked by married people: How often should we be having sex? I don’t know if it’s God’s [...]

My husband and I are coming up on our three-year anniversary this week, which in my book makes us officially out of the honeymoon phase of marriage. (Couples who have kids might find that [...]