Anyone who’s been in a romantic relationship very long knows that conflict comes with the territory. And constructively working through rough spots is one of the most important ongoing tasks in any long-term relationship, whether you’re dating, engaged …
It’s easy to admire the personality traits we don’t have and overlook the ones we do as being equally beneficial.
“Live life with no regrets” used to be a common phrase I couldn’t stand. I felt it suggested that we do not need to claim responsibility for our actions — that one could do anything without having to acknowledge its consequences, and this phrase seemed …
Although I spent the majority of the last few days on my couch watching any and every March Madness game that I could (and watching my bracket get worse and worse), I also spent some time talking to a couple different friends who recently went through …
I spent lots of time as a single in coffee shops. Occasionally, if I was lucky, it was on a date. More often — much more often, like, maybe 100 to 1 more often — I was alone, trying to make sense of my life and my emotions and my frustrated expectation …
Exactly one year ago my mom and I took off on a road trip to Colorado Springs, Colo., where I tried to reconnect with people at Focus on the Family by visiting those I had known and worked with during my internship. I was going with my gut instinct of …
It was a wedding. But it wasn’t my wedding. A year after graduating from college, a young woman whom I’d spent five years pining away for was walking down the aisle … with someone else. As for me, well, I didn’t have any prospects. At all. And my frien …
When I was a child, I probably had an overly inflated sense of fairness. Not only did I scrutinize the fairness with which my parents treated my siblings and me, I also used to contemplate great mysteries and try to find God’s fairness in them. Unfortu …
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