Category: Insecurity
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Abandonment
Written by Heather Copple Messy Marriage Team Member All of us come with baggage—it’s just a fact. Well, one of my big steamer trunks of “baggage” contains my abandonment issues. I have such big issues with it that I also have another steamer trunk that holds my attachment problems. Abandonment and attachment problems do not…
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How to Develop Your Identity
Level One – “Bad” … You feel like a “nobody”—unimportant. Level Two – “Worse” … You feel like you don’t know who you are. Level Three – “Worst” … You want to disappear. Very often in messy marriages, one or sometimes both people feel one of these ways. I think I’ve visited all three of…
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“Engagement” with the Real Problem
Today we are joining Marriage Monday to discuss engagement. When my husband, then-boyfriend, Gary was a teen, a very smart, protective youth pastor told Gary never to tell a girl he loved her until he was ready to marry her. I completely understand this man’s reasoning. I know that there are way too many teen…
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2 + 1 = Jealousy
Written by Heather and Scott Copple Messy Marriage Team Members Scott and I had been married for two years and nine months. Life was great! But one day, an event occurred that changed all of that. Heather – This event threw me into exhaustion and busyness. I wasn’t exactly keeping up with the housework like…
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If Only I Had Been There
Written by Kimberly Green “If I had only been there, it would never have happened.” This was the belief I had for many years that shaped much of my insecurity and fear of the world around me. At 16 years old, after nearly two decades of dysfunction, my parent’s marriage, and life as I had…
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