
Alternative Ways to Prioritize Your Marriage
Let’s get a few things out of the way: No, I’m not married yet. No, I don’t pretend to know everything about marriage. And no, I don’t take marriage advice from people who seem to have been “born yesterday” and have been married for a relatively few seconds. The post below, therefore, is not my attempt at advising…

On “Let Love Win” And Celebrating Marriage’s Ups and Downs
I’m super excited to introduce you today to a sweet new ebook about marriage written by a kind woman and mom of eight(!) kids. Her stories aren’t preachy, as most marriage resources can be. If anything, she wants readers to learn from her hits and her misses, and both my mom and I were smitten by…

On Boundaries & Why We’ll Have Them When We’re Married
Recently we learned that Vice President Pence won’t dine with any other woman by himself, i.e., without his wife present. The media backlash that resulted from this announcement was, in my mind, both unprecedented (“How could anyone disagree with this?” I thought) but not surprising (“Of course the mainstream media and modern feminists would attack it”). My fiancé…
More Random Confessions
You know how I haven’t been blogging regularly in seemingly forever? There’s a good reason: I haven’t been in the mood :)! You guys, when you’re just living life and enjoying your days, sometimes sitting down to document them for OTHERS to see is exhausting. And I have plenty to document and be ecstatic about, don’t…

I’m Against Girls’ Nights (& Other Things That Take Time Away from Family)
I grew up with a certain mentality and was raised to hold true to my heart numerous things that (most?) women in America simply don’t. You can find some examples of these things peppered throughout my blog, but in case you need a refresher, here are a few: I’m against premarital sex, I don’t support…

I’m Getting Married to The Man of My Dreams!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Ooooh, have I got a lovely story for y’all today! Once upon a time, a guy met a girl on a dating website. It wasn’t long after they started talking on the phone, and later seeing each other on the regular, that they were smitten. Then thoughts and talks about the future happened, a…