Category: Magical Thinking
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Livin’ on a Prayer – April’s "SYS"
April’s “Share Your Story” is by Becky BoernerAnd I, Beth, am also excited to announce that Becky is our Newest MM Team member! Can I get a Woot, Woot?!! *************** Do you recognize this face? He was “the man” in the 80’s—Bon Jovi! I remember listening to all of Bon Jovi’s songs with my very first…
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Consumed with Making My Spouse Perfect
Back some 25 years ago, I didn’t marry the man that I now call my husband. No, I haven’t gotten a divorce and remarried a different man. I simply married the man I believed would change to suit my preferences and ideals. In hindsight, I can clearly see that was the … Wrong Approach! …
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How to Motivate Your Spouse
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from God through the years, He loves paradoxes. He is strong in our weakness (2 Cor. 12:9). To the wise, His ways are foolishness (1 Cor. 1:18). But God’s love of paradox is never more obvious than in the way He wants us to love. You know … “The…
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10 Reasons "Why There’s No Such Thing as a Soul-Mate"
photo credit by stevendepolo (Flickr) If you’ve read my blog for any length of time, you know that I fiercely and regularly attempt to debunk the whole soul-mate mythology that’s so rampant in our society. So, to drive home my thoughts even more, I’ve decided to share 10 reasons why I think it’s simply a…
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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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Minimizing Messes
In my last post, I talked about how I didn’t take my Poison Ivy seriously at first. I must confess, I have a tendency to do that—to minimize a problem. Unfortunately, I’m an anxious person—always have been. I could spiritually dissect that and tell you that my anxiety means I don’t have enough faith in…
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Love Goggles
Written by Stacey Micklevitz Messy Marriage Team Member Hollywood can be subtle. It has a way of making sex symbols look hotter and repeatedly renders husbands/fathers dopey at best. Either portrayal takes deliberate forethought, fancy camera work, and the right actor. Obviously, actors such as Matthew McConaughey and Jim Belushi are type-cast. Unaware, you might…
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You Complete Me . . . Not!
Is it such a terrible thing to say that my husband doesn’t complete me? I recently picked up a book that I still hope is a great marriage book by Mort Fertel – Marriage Fitness. I plan on reading it and a few others on my upcoming vacation. But when it came in the mail…
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Facebook Affairs
You may or may not agree, but I think that Facebook has become a national pastime. Move over baseball and Reality TV, FB is taking up more and more of our time. But even more alarming is the fact that… Facebook is becoming a prime hook-up spot for the emotionally restless. After all, one of…
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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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