If you are a newly married person, or someone who is contemplating marriage, let me give you the best advice you’ll ever receive about the institution.
Never take marriage advice.
People who offer advice mean well; we all assume that we’ve been through enough trial and error to impart some wisdom on some less-knowing person in a [...]
In the three weeks since the birth of our son, my wife and I have snapped at each other no fewer than seven times. We’ve snapped about pampers, we’ve snapped about feeding, we’ve snapped about what makes him so fussy.
The good news is that we recognize the culprit behind the broken communication – mostly, a [...]
Here’s a piece from MSNBC on the disparity of high achieving black women getting married versus their white counterparts. There are a number of angles from which you can approach this topic, but I’d prefer to take it from the one that is most apparent in my marriage to a high-achieving black woman.
The question of [...]
A friend of mine forwarded this Copyblogger article to me, and I thought it was ingenious in explaining how to be an effective blogger. You know, by treating your readers like indecisive, immature children.
But seriously, if you’ve never considered blogging as a way to improve your skills as a spouse or as a parent, I [...]
In case you thought that affluence and resources could make a marriage strong, check out my folks from my hometown of Prince George’s County working to save their relationship.
Two successful people, nothing to worry about financially. Still, they are going through the same drama and mismanaged expectations that most folks go through. Very interesting [...]
I can’t even remember who said it, for some reason, a grocery store comes to mind. But it comes as no surprise to me that an elderly face was the genesis of the best piece of marriage advice I ever received.
Like my father, I have no problem initiating random conversations with random people in random [...]
Having been in the game for almost two years, I can tell you a little something about being married.
It takes an extreme amount of arrogance. What else can it be when you can fully commit your life to monogamy, changes in lifestyle, and a total submersion of your feelings into someone else’s actions?
Knowing that, you’ll [...]
I have to say, the more I hear from Rick Warren, the cooler I think he is. He comes off more as a zestful follower of God than a crazy zealot, and I can appreciate that.
Here’s the pastor breaking down how to make marriage work. It’s worth the few minutes to watch it.
Life will wear you down if you let it. You can spend so much time working hard for your family to get ahead, that your family gets the worst of you. The tired, grumpy, inattentive, disengaged you.
And nobody wants that.
Think of your life as two distinct personalities. There is a personality that your profession and [...]
Everybody wants peace, but no one is willing to stop fighting. That’s usually the hallmark of marriages that are constantly in turmoil. Everybody wants their way, nobody wants to get out of the way.
Before we became engaged, my wife and I discovered something earth shattering about ourselves. As much as we despised to admit it, [...]
