Lessons

At a time when I thought I’d be in awe of life, I found myself doubting everything—even my faith in God. It was a heavy season. The rage. The tears. The numbness. The resentment. I kept asking myself, When do I get to the other side of this?

The process of finding a wedding dress felt almost identical to the process of choosing a partner. Both ask the same question: What truly fits you—not just on the surface, but in a lasting way?

So instead of giving you a checklist to diagnose whether someone is secretly a psychopath, here’s something else to consider: Six questions to help you decode the “red flags” you’re seeing.

I left the house by myself for the first time to take a drive a week after giving birth to my son. This was the first step I took towards recovery. While I was driving I was thinking to myself - "Is this really my life now?"

I read all of the classic books you could read about self-help, but one book in particular that stuck in my memory was a book called “How to Get What You Want, and Want What You Have” by John Gray. He also wrote the famous book “Men are from Mars, and Women are From Venus.” John Gray predominately teaches men and women about relationships. However, he does give women a lot of advice in how to live balanced lifestyles.

To those people out there who are in the online dating game. I FEEL for you. When I was dating, I would describe myself as a person who absolutely hates online dating. Even though I had met some great people (including my husband). I believe a lot of the time it was a cause of crazy making, disappointments, miscommunications, and superficiality.

We live in a world where obsession is somehow equal to true love, or that it means the same thing. Have you ever wondered if it’s just obsession or true love? I have found that this is one of the single biggest reasons we have so much trouble in dating and relationships. We have been SO conditioned since we were young children. The conditioning looks like this: if you can’t get that person off your mind, if you are yearning, if you are wondering, if you are questioning, if yo

Since I have become a married woman, I have started to have some fears around having a baby. Personally, I don’t know how to think about childbearing. When discussing this with my own mother, she seems not to understand why I have such a fear. In her generation, having children was so normal, even second nature. It seems to me that the mainstream thought before was “okay, we are married now – let’s have children”, versus the thoughts today of, “should I even have children?” o

When people say, “Oh, that couple is trying right now.” The more I think about this word, the stranger it seems. Why do they even use this term for attempting to conceive a baby? It turns out that for some couples, getting pregnant doesn’t always happen instantly.