Category Archives for "Marriage"
Lesson from a Wise Cherokee
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life: A fight is going on inside of me,” he said to the boy. “It’s a terrible fight and it’s going on between two wolves. One is evil–he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.
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Making Marriage Work
KSL Studio 5 We bring them with us to the marriage alter; these unspoken, half-hidden unrealistic expectations about how marriage is supposed to be. It’s not long before the gig is up and we’re left shaking our heads shouting, “I signed up for this!?!”We enter marriage with high expectations because that’s our hope for the […]
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Presentation from the Just For Her Conference
I had such a wonderful time at the ââ?¬Å?Just for Herââ?¬Â Conference at Weber State! Thank you to those who were able to attend and my apologies to those who were turned away due to space constraints. Here is the truncated version of that dayââ?¬â?¢s presentation and my personal notes on the matter of how […]
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The Difference Between Venting and Complaining
KSL TVââ?¬â??Studio 5 Everybody does it sometime, and many people do it a lot! Complaining! It’s perfectly healthy, right? We’ve been told, “Get it off your chest; don’t hold back!” It’s not good to store up all that angerââ?¬Â¦right?
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The Difficulty with In-Laws
KSL TVââ?¬â??Studio 5 Within any given marital commitment ceremony, generally speaking, we vow to love, honor, and cherish our one true love. However, behind our one-and-only stands a whole line of other people who have loved, supported, and embraced our special someone long before we came around. It is a package deal and according to […]
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