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Coasting
Picture it – you’re on a bicycle, you’ve pedaled and pedaled and put some effort into making it go, and now you are coasting along. The wind in your face feels cool and refreshing and the effort you’re having to put in at this point is minimal – it’s like the bicycle could keep going forever on its own. But if you’re not having to peddle anymore and the bicycle is still moving it can mean only one thing: You’re heading downhill. Now imagine that this is a bicycle built for two and it represents your marriage. Coasting is a dangerous game to play. Downhill coasting can pick up speed…
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Happy Easter from the Couples Post!
From all of us at The Couples Post, we hope you and your families had a wonderful Easter! We will be back next week with a new article to share.
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Have a Blessed Holy Week
From all of us at the Couples Post, we hope you have a blessed Holy Week!
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Sleeping with the Loser
Jen – I used to think that every fight had a winner and a loser. When you think about this in the context of marriage, it means that after a fight, someone has to sleep with the loser. We propose that there is a better way to fight so that both spouses win.
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Stages
Having kids comes with stages. There’s the infant-baby stage, the toddler stage, the school-age stage, the teenage stage, and the adult stage. Each of these stages presents its own set of challenges in our married relationship.
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The Waiting is the Hardest Part
Sometimes, waiting is the hardest part. This is a classic season of waiting as children of all ages wait for Christmas and Santa and presents. As Christians in the Season of Advent, we are called to wait for the coming of our Savior. This is historical and ever-current at the same time. Our calling is to wait well, both looking forward to the future while accepting the present as the gift that it is.
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Sunrise, Sunset
As we look back on 30 years of marriage, we can see the ways our relationship has been like a journey from sunrise to sunset.
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Happy Labor Day!
We at The Couples Post celebrate all the hard workers in our country whose effort benefits all of us in so many ways. However you’re celebrating Labor Day, we hope you have a wonderful one and we’ll be back next week with another post.
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Haven’t we had this fight before?
Jen: Life, kids, work and extra-curricular activities suck up so much of our energy each day, that when it comes to interacting with each other, we are often at the end of our rope. When we are having a disagreement we’ve had more than once, I feel worn down and don’t want to deal with it.
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Love Letters from Bellevue
Many of our readers have attended a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Experience and sought to bring the tools home and use them every day. Little did we know, a couple of our readers, Joe and Helen have truly set the bar for making love letters a daily part of their lives. Married for more than 71 years now, we at The Couples Post are blessed and humbled to have heard their story and have this chance to share it with you in this touching video from the Eric’s Heroes feature on KOMO News out of Seattle. We invite you to listen to their story and hope you’re as inspired as we…
