Wow! Where has the summer gone! This is the time of year that Sharon gets sad thinking about the end of Summer's warm glow and the approaching cold of winter. I (Russ) on the other hand, get excited about the arrival of Fall—blazing color, sunny blue sky days, crisp night air, Sunday Night Football, the smell of leaves and burning [...]
Have you ever had the feeling you were married to an alien life-form? Sometimes it seems that way when we grapple to understand our mate. Throughout history, plays, books, movies and songs have been written highlighting the differences between men and women. One of the more recent bestsellers, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, took a lighter look [...]
We're in the heat of summer now and hopefully things are heating up in your marriage too! With the warm weather come numerous opportunities to take walks together, attend an outdoor concert, spend a day at a local beach, hunt for treasures at an open-air flea market, enjoy a romantic dinner at an outdoor café—or whatever you enjoy doing together. [...]
Tom and Laura came to see us just nine months after their wedding. They had swallowed the happily-ever-after myth whole and were now feeling queasy. “Before we got married we couldn’t bear to be apart from one another,” Laura confided. “We did almost everything together, and I thought that’s how it would be in our marriage, even more so.” She [...]
“That’s not the way I remember it!” Lauren exclaimed heatedly to her sister, Josey. “How could you think that? About our father?” Josey narrowed her eyes in anger. It was the first “reunion” she’d had with her three sisters since her parents’ death two years earlier. And this was why. Anytime she tried to talk to Lauren and Annette about [...]
