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What To Do When You Disagree About Parenting
At last count, the internet has provided us with roughly eight million different parenting styles. You’ve probably noticed different parenting styles even among your own friends. Is it any wonder, with...
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12 Awesome Marriage Resources That Aren’t Books
Reading is hard. I say that as someone who loves to read and loves to write. But reading IS hard, especially when we have so many things in our lives distracting us and making it tough to concentrate...
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Is Your Marriage Dead? Or, Does it Just Appear That Way?
“Girls, look ahead! The mountain is out, you can see it…” This phrase, “the mountain is out,” is a very Pacific Northwest thing to say. Outside of the Seattle area, I’m not sure it would make much...
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Some Problems In Your Marriage Are Here To Stay
Every couple has their perpetual problems. These are the problems that you fight and argue about, but nothing seems to change. You plead your case, you hear their side of it, you may even reach some...
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Six Conversations Every Couple Must Have
Is “Happily ever after…” even a thing? That’s the question that’s given me insomnia over the last three years. Sometimes I lose sleep for a week, tossing and turning going over the stats and stories of...
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Three Ways to Keep Your Hobbies and Your Marriage
You guys ask the best questions! There are things about our marriage that we think are humdrum… our pet names for each other (Goose and Chother), our go-to dinners (Spaghetti and Taco Bowls), where we...
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Cleaning Up Is Not My Destiny – How Your Marriage Benefits When You Share the...
Claire, our oldest, had only been in Kindergarten for two weeks when she sat on the floor of our living room picking up her toys and through gritted teeth she said to me, “Mom, you know what? Cleaning...
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15 Ways to Calm a Fight
Have you ever been in a fight that you knew was going nowhere? Have you ever been in a fight that you knew was going nowhere AND you wanted it to end, but couldn’t figure out how to stop bickering? The...
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Ten Lessons from Ten Years of Marriage
Ten years ago, I stood in front of a man I’d fallen in love with and committed to spend the rest of my days learning to create a life together. I was all aflutter that day, couldn’t imagine being...
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How to Lose Your Job and Keep Your Marriage
Petersons take risks. This precedent was set up early in our marriage. When, after being married for just a year, a friend asked us to quit our jobs and move with him from Seattle to southeast...
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