I had many things on my list to happen in 2010, but buying a house was not one of them. My husband and I fully expected to start our lives together in an apartment, which we did for the first seven months of our marriage: in a little shoebox apartment with a vintage claw foot…
What comes to mind when you hear “spring”? Some of you might think about plans for your spring break adventure. For others of you, it is all about spring cleaning. Perhaps it drums up pleasant thoughts of nature in full bloom. And then others of you may be focused on the common Christian-college phenomenon known…
QUESTION: “Just married in February (2011)— second marriage for my husband, third for me. I am unemployed, looking for a job. I have a hard time with talking about money. I do not want this to become an issue with us as his first wife abused money. I feel he should add me to his…
This month my husband and I will celebrate a milestone—anniversary number one, a year that has been rich with new beginnings and filled with “firsts,” getting married, becoming homeowners, moving to another state, launching new careers, and embarking on this crazy, beautiful, blessed journey together! Before we got married, Zach and I realized that the…
As we began our first counseling session, John and Mary were certainly pleasant and polite, almost to a fault, with each readily deferring to the other. It was soon obvious that there was little open conflict between them; in fact, there was little emotional engagement at all. At first, you might wonder why they even…
