We expect our spouses to fill voids in our lives or hearts that only God can fill. Unmet expectations reduce a journey expected to be amazing to ordinary. Unmet expectations breed hurt feelings, misunderstanding, and unresolved conflict.
Justin DavisStichwörter: faith marriage beyond-ordinary
It is the small, mundane choices we make every day that cause the biggest difference
Justin DavisStichwörter: faith marriage beyond-ordinary
Jesus tells Peter to forgive seventy times seven times, not because the person we forgive will it that many times, but because resentment can have such a grip on our hearts that we need to forgive that often for our own healing.
Justin DavisStichwörter: faith marriage beyond-ordinary
Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves.
Justin DavisStichwörter: faith marriage forgiveness beyond-ordinary
First, they set the hook with mind-bending kinky shit. Then a year later you're living in a Talking Heads song, dressed like Teddy Ruxpin, living with a strange woman in a big house full of frilly throw pillows, experiencing the frequency of sex that can only be charted by Halley's Comet. and you're wondering: How did I get here?
Tim DorseyStichwörter: men women sex marriage relationships
...You should make someone a wonderful husband."
Even the tips of Jamie's ears were crimson now. But instead of retreating, he clenched his jaw and looked directly into her eyes.
"I suppose I would," he said. "Are you interested?
Stichwörter: humor marriage lovers-quarrels flirtation
... she isn't mine ... . She is ultimately God's, and I'm simply a steward of her heart for a season.
Denise Hildreth JonesStichwörter: god marriage relationships
Not for her the cruel, delicate luxury of choice, the indolent, cat-and-mouse pastimes of the hearth-rug. No Penelope she; she must hunt in the forest.
Evelyn WaughThe relationship between any two communities in the global economy is not unlike a marriage. As couples counselors advise, relationships falter when two partners are too interdependent. When any stress affecting one partner - the loss of a job, an illness, a bad-hair day - brings down the other, the couple suffers. A much healthier relationship is grounded in the relative strength of each partner, who each should have his or her own interests, hobbies, friends, and professional identity, so that when anything goes wrong, the couple can support one another from a position of strength. Our ability to love, like our ability to produce, must be grounded in our own security. And our economy, like our love, when it comes from a place of community, can grow without limit.
Michael H. ShumanStichwörter: marriage community economy local
The world in the evening seems fraught with the absence of promise, if you are a married man. There is nothing to do but go home and drink your nine drinks and forget about it.
Donald BarthelmeStichwörter: marriage
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