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Money Matters in Marriage
One of the top reasons marriages have trouble or split is due conflicts over money. Usually this begins with one partner who likes to spend while the other one likes to pinch a penny till Lincoln cries “uncle!” Appropriately, psychologists have discovered that money often becomes a “nurturance” symbol to anyone who has it or…
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Share Your Story Here!
Here at Messy Marriage our team tries to address all sorts of messy issues in marriage, but— believe it or not—we can’t experience ALL the problems that this world can throw at us. However, “collectively” our team has experienced quite a few! 🙂 My desire has always been for this to be a place where…
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Porn’s Influence on Our Children
I believe that marriages are often made messier by the “messes” our children become involved in. So I want to arm parents with helpful information regarding this issue. The information I will be sharing is from Josh McDowell’s Just1ClickAway.org Dr. Jill Manning, author of What’s the Big Deal about Pornography? testified before a U.S. Senate…
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Resurrecting Love
Remember the part of the marriage vow that says, “Till death do us part”? In our vows, we are referring to a physical death and know that this ensures our promise is for a lifetime. But what if it is only in our dying … to ourselves that we really find each other? It’s…
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Learning the Hard Way
If you are in a messy marriage, you may feel like, “When are things going to get easier?” Maybe you’ve gone to counseling, you’ve prayed and prayed for your marriage, you’ve worked on communicating better with your spouse, you’ve read marriage book after marriage book, and next to nothing ever happens or changes for the…
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The Price of Retaliating
In the book, Forgiving and Reconciling, Dr. Worthington talks about the “Injustice Gap.” It’s when we try to equalize the pain we’ve felt at the hands of our offender by requiring some kind of justice or amends. Dr. Worthington goes on to say that in trying to bridge the “Injustice Gap”, we don’t just require…
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How to Lessen the Pain of Change
Just the other day I was feeling gripey. I don’t know why. And as a woman, I reserve the right to have a gripey day or two every now and then! 😉 Unfortunately, my husband noticed. After 24 years of marriage, I definitely can’t pull one over on him! So I either snapped at him…
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What Are You Trying to Redo?
Ever wonder why you do the things you do? As human beings, everything we do is for a reason. Since God created us with such complexity, there may be a variety of reasons at play. But one of the important sources for all that we do is called the “Homing Instinct.” In today’s electronic world,…
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The Secret to Contentment
I remember the realization like it was yesterday. My husband and I were emerging out of a long, difficult period into a promising new venture. I was walking high and so excited for what this adventure might bring our way. I was determined and hopeful that this new pathway was going to usher in our…
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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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