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Pursuing Your Spouse’s Joy

I promised to put her happiness ahead of mine — to cheer her on as she lived into her dreams and calling to bless the world with her gifts.

Busyness can leave a couple, once deeply in love, passing like roommates in the hall. Here are five steps for rebuilding connection.

When you both work, how you divide up the housework can become contentious very quickly.

I find a special comfort in my ‘rearview mirror’ musings. I recognize now that when challenges present, “We can do this, because we did that!”

Jared and I drifted apart in the months after our son Dillon was born. It wasn’t subtle. We saw it. Felt it. Watched it happen.

Retirement doesn’t have to be seen as the beginning of the end. It can be a new beginning.