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If you’ve been married for any length of time, you have undoubtedly realized that some habits help your relationship and others hurt it. Our goal should be to practice doing the good stuff until it becomes second nature and leave off doing the bad things altogether. To help in that endeavor, I offer the following…
I have a friend who refuses to iron more than one piece of clothing at a time. She believes that dying with a closet full of clean, pressed clothes would be testimony to a wasted life. Why bother ironing something you may never get the chance to wear…
Creating and maintaining a home is serious business. Housekeeping matters. I’m not trying to chain anybody to a vacuum cleaner here, but I believe, to the best of our abilities, we should try to maintain a clean and orderly home. We should seek to make it a haven of rest for our entire family. Whatever…
My husband and I celebrated yet another wedding anniversary last week — our 26th. In honor of that milestone, I’m sharing our secret, time-tested recipe for a happy marriage. Married life has been every bit as sweet and satisfying as I always dreamed it would be. My husband is my best friend, and I love…
Frustration is something we all face from time to time. The question is, how do we respond? Do life’s trials make us bitter… or better? Do they cause us to sink or soar? It takes wisdom and maturity to swallow disappointment without complaint. Any two-year-old can throw a tantrum, but if we hope to do…
Arguments in marriage are like dirty dishes in the sink. To keep the peace, you had better deal with conflict immediately. At least, that’s how my husband and I have come to see it. We learned early that putting off washing dishes does not make the chore any easier. On the contrary, if you let…