No man is so virtuous as to marry a wife only to have children.
To the contract of marriage, besides the man and wife, there is a third party — Society; and, if it be considered as a vow — GOD: and, therefore, it cannot be dissolved by their consent alone.
Posts Tagged ‘romance’
Happily Married
November 28, 2009Why Girls Love Guys, Five Reasons to go Continued
November 20, 2009Because they hurt when we hurt.
When something bad happens in our lives, our female friends are always good for commiseration and advice. “That stinks,” they’ll nod sympathetically. Or, “You should just march in there and give her a piece of your mind,” they’ll say indignantly. When you tell a guy about the latest trauma in [...]
Heartbreak, Will I ever forget him?
July 31, 2009No, you won’t, and every day will get worse until your life is a living hell. Feel better? Of course not. The truth is, you’ll never forget him (why would you want to?), but in time, when you think of him—and you will—you’ll be kind. By the grace of Godknowswhat, the human mind tends to [...]
Act as if you Have Faith, especially when you don’t
May 23, 2009What if I just don’t believe it?” some women ask me. “What if I’m really afraid that he’s screwing up?”
When we’re in the thick of our marital loneliness, the future does seem bleak, and you may not be truly optimistic about it. But you do have to act like you have faith that your marriage [...]
I’m afraid to tell you, we never talk anymore
November 17, 2008Time and again I have had a distraught husband or wife tell me that they no longer communicate with their partners. What they mean is that they no longer take the time to share their hopes and fears, their joys and their frustrations. Two days ago Beverley sat in my study and cried, because after [...]
Couple Barriers to Gut-level Communication continued
November 17, 2008Fear of upsetting my partner
Sometimes we refrain from communicating what we really feel because we’re afraid it may hurt or upset our partners. We think that its heroic to “suffer in silence”. Sometimes it is confused with the biblical injunction to “bear your own burdens” or “to be the least”. A wife may feel that [...]
Enrich our Marriages, Telling it like it is part 2
November 13, 2008Report emotions immediately
Our emotional problems do not stem from the fact that we experience them, but from the fact that we act on them. It is one thing to feel disappointed, quite another to walk round the house sulking for several days. It’s one thing to experience anxiety about the safety of your school-going children, [...]
Happy and unhappy are not opposites: Happily Marriage ever after continued
November 13, 2008What are my partner’s expectations?
Some expectations are determined by social roles (although these may be changing). For example, it is normally expected of a wife to prepare the meals. It is usually expected of the husband to see to the maintenance of the house, etc.
Most expectations will depend entirely on the individual couple. In one [...]
