If all the key factors in your relationship right now are pointing towards love and marriage, it is time to have a substantial understanding of how your potential future spouse thinks about the topic and issues related to money. Now, before you dismiss this as cold or irrelevant to your decision-making criteria, please read further….
When my husband and I first met, we were both in committed relationships with other people, and neither one of us could stand each other. I thought he was a chauvinist, and he thought I was just another mouthy feminist! Who would’ve thought, years down the road, that the Lord would bring us together? As…
We know that our spouses need love and respect and we know that our marriages need commitment and attention. But we rarely stop to think about how our spouses long to know that we delight in them! Delight is an essential part of a healthy marriage, but we often fail to express it. When the…
One night on our honeymoon, my South African husband climbed into the hotel room bed before I did. I circled around to the other side and yanked the sheets from their tightly tucked position under the mattress. As I got into bed and reached to put my arm around my husband, a barrier blockaded my…
I learned the importance of honesty one day as I sat across the table from a woman who had decades of marriage under her belt. She had infinite wisdom on the subject, and yet somehow could always relate to my newlywed struggles either by recalling her earlier years or current circumstances. She asked me a…
