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Free to Be Yourself?

Are you free to be yourself in your marriage? Or do you always feel you have to be on your best behavior or changing the way you act or the things you say or even truing to change your feelings to accommodate your spouse? One of the things I like about my marriage is that I am free to be myself. Because really I don’t know any other way to be anyway. I’m not good at pretending to be something I’m not or with other people who pretend to be something that they’re not. The other night Mick and I … Continue reading →

Making Allowances

We’ve often been told, ‘patience is a virtue.’ Nowhere is this a more important virtue than in marriage. We not only need to be patient with our spouse, though that certainly helps, we need to be patient in our expectations of ourselves and our marriages. You and I don’t get it right all the time, so we shouldn’t expect our spouse too either. In other words we need to do as it says on my calendar for yesterday and ‘Be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love.’ Sound like … Continue reading →