There’s a quiet shift happening in American marriages, and it’s not showing up in wedding photos or anniversary posts. It’s happening behind closed doors,...
"Once intimacy begins to wane, it can become hard to get back on track. One of the keys to reconnecting is understanding that intimacy is a multifaceted thing. In fact, there are five different types of intimacy, and only when we keep all five functioning can we have marriages that feel profoundly connected."
He hasn’t taken me on any lavish trips or bought me expensive gifts for our Anniversary and the truth is these days we barely remember the day much less if it’s our anniversary. You see those aren’t ways a man treats you like a queen.
"It hit me! All these missed opportunities mixed in with the thought - Cally doesn’t know I have the ring! I should just start documenting these moments!"
"Kind of embarrassed to admit this, but to explain what I mean, I was in line at Target and I saw this woman in line that knocked me out. I thought, 'Wow, some lucky guy is with her.'"
"My hands and feet got hot and sweaty. He described what he saw with just enough detail for me to get the point. I was in shock. I could see things but they were blurry, I could hear, but it was unclear, muffled."
One morning in college, I woke up, got ready and drove to a church to buy myself a purity ring. My heart ached a little bit at the thought of it because I had already had sex before marriage, and because even at that time, the last word that I would have used to define myself was “pure.”
"I got in the front and he put our baby in her seat. I have no memory of the rest of the night. Jake died that night. I lost my husband, and I became a widow at 18."
