Don’t you think it would be cruel to ask your spouse to hold down five jobs?Let’s say your wife is a university professor, but you expect her to also serve as a detective in the police department, an …
Your Marriage Is About so Much More than You
A few years ago, Lisa and I took a military transport and landed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It felt unbearably hot, even for a couple traveling from Houston. Yet the Navy chaplain escorting us around …
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What to do When Sacred Marriage Doesn't Work?
I’ve been asked several times, “Gary, what do you do when Sacred Marriage doesn’t work?” At first, I was confused by the question. What did they mean by “work?” When pressed, they eventually …
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How to Know if You Should Marry Him
William Law lived in a time (the eighteenth century) and place (England) where he believed a superficial and misguided education usually made young people worse rather than better. Young boys, he …
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Dirty Diapers and Fresh Hearts
As most of you know, I’m married to an organic loving, buy local, GMO free, do-all-things-the-healthiest-way-possible wife. All the way back in the 90s she decided that there was no way we’d …
God Made Us Needy
A blockbuster quote from a blockbuster book (Unwanted) by Jay Stringer unmasks what I have seen but been unable to describe in marriage: “Few of my male clients recognize any needs they have except …