Marriage, Marriage Preparation

How to Save your Marriage Before it Begins

Why we do marriage preparation the way we do.

So here’s the deal about marriage: it’s really hard. Even when all the stars are aligned in your favor, it’s still hard. Even if you marry your 10/10, you adore each other’s families, you share the same faith and culture, your finances are in tip top shape, you agree on everything, and you can’t get enough of each other — it’s still hard. Why? Well, for starters, the scenario I just described in that massive run-on sentence is right out of a Hallmark movie and therefore removed from reality. The more realistic setup is that two lovely but flawed people fall in love, and after a period of dating, decide to commit to spending the rest of their lives together.

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Education, Family, Marriage, Self-care, Uncategorized

A New Year, A Big Change and a New Commitment

Happy New Year! I can’t believe it’s been exactly one year since I last blogged. Life must have been crazy. It’s definitely been an emotionally challenging year, the reasons which I hope to share one day, once the dust has settled (does it ever settle in family life?). It has also been a year filled with changes, the major one being that I’m no longer homeschooling. Yup, you heard that right. After 14 years, we have made the difficult but hopefully right decision to send all the kids to school.

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