From the monthly archives:

November 2010

Meet the Gnomes (Again)

November 29, 2010

Jeepers! I have not been writing much. I don’t have any good excuses for why I haven’t been blogging, besides the generic “I’ve been busy.” I figured that for this week, to tide you over, I’d recycle a post from exactly a year ago. Just for fun. This has nothing to do with marriage . [...]

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The Power of Seduction

November 22, 2010

In the movie Date Night, the action is instigated by seduction. Is this an illustration of the premise in John and Stasi Eldredge’s Captivating — that women make things happen through seduction?

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Which is Your Favourite Marriage Blog?

November 16, 2010

Hey there, faithful readers, I just wanted to draw your attention to Stu Gray’s Top Ten Marriage Blogs Contest at the Marry Blogger. He is accepting nominations until November 23, and I thought I might do some prodding in case anyone around here would like to nominate — ahem — Project M. Or, you know, [...]

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The Trouble with “Nobody is Perfect”

November 15, 2010

It’s time to critique the marriage advice clichés again. My problem with the truism that “nobody is perfect” is that it’s deceptive. It suggests that everyone has little flaws – bad habits, irritating mannerisms, tiresome personality quirks. Like maybe they loudly blow their noses into their hands every time they’re in the shower, or they [...]

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Trouble in Paradise, a.k.a. You Can’t Solve Your Marriage Problems by Moving to Paradise

November 8, 2010

Changing your location or the things you own may put off relationship problems for a little while, but they don’t solve them. We’re proof that you can change just about everything in your lives, from jobs, to where you live, to how much vacation time you have, but in the end, the health of a marriage has nothing to do with any of those things.

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Dear Baby Who Doesn’t Exist

November 2, 2010

I don’t know what you call an emotion that you feel towards a human being who does not exist anywhere but the imagination.  I don’t know if you can call that love . . . I’m not sure you can feel real love towards a theoretical person. But it feels a lot like love. I [...]

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