Tag: marriage

"Here we are, 24 times we have celebrated Valentine’s Day... I feel like I am just lately really getting to know you."

I prayed as I walked in the door to a cold wife who barely even acknowledged me. That night, as we lay in our bed, inches from each other yet miles apart, the inspiration came. I knew what I had to do, remembers Richard Paul Evans.

"Yesterday I got a message asking if I felt unhappy with the monotony of everyday life in a longstanding relationship. If my wife has gotten a bit boring over time..."

I don’t mean it has to “look” the same, but what I do mean is that I hope you get to feel the way I do being married to your dad.

"When we pray these words, we are acknowledging that He is in control of us, and we are not in control of each other. It is offering our own will in exchange for God’s will."

"Silence. Silence. I waited for an answer, but none came. And it was at this point I realized my husband had ignored me. Quite easily, in fact."

"We will slog through our children’s Algebra homework, do Zumba in public and pluck the hair from our body ONE PIECE AT A TIME. But tell a girl to have sex every night and she looks at you like you are crazy. An orgasm? Every night? What do I look like? A Nymphomaniacal Super Woman?"

"The image of a beat-up kitchen chair flashed through my mind, and hot tears filled my tired eyes."