The Virtuous Marriage: Lessons for Life from Benjamin Franklin
Virtue is moral excellence. Another idea is virtue is a character trait or quality valued as good or righteous. Each one of us has core underlying values or virtues that contribute to our opinions, beliefs, and ideas. Cicero, a famous Roman statesman and writer, wrote about four virtues every man should strive to live up [...]
Marital Espresso: Wake up to an Intentional Marriage.
Editor’s Note: Originally posted January 31, 2008. As much as possible, I strive to be very intentional in my marriage. To be aware of what is just below the surface between us and try to bring it up to the light. To be more conscious about my choices in my marriage and my life rather [...]
A Good Marriage is the Enemy of a Great Marriage
The beginning of a new year usually includes time to dream and plan. This time can even be used to begin creating a great marriage. When asked, most everyone will state that they want a great life – a great marriage – a great job. This is natural. It’s almost universal. It’s an entirely different [...]
A Simple Marriage in 2010
I love the mountains. I love their beauty, impressiveness, challenge, and strength. Having grown up in the plains of the midwest, where the mountains were 8 or more hours away, I loved trips to the mountains. I’d love to live in the mountains some day. For the past several months my wife and I have [...]
Thanks to the Love of my Wife
Editor’s Note: This is the story about my marriage journey, which I reflect on each year in order to continue growing in my life and marriage. I’m sharing it again as part of the “one of my favorites” category. If you’ve been reading Simple Marriage for any length of time, and have been commenting at [...]
10 Ways to Unhappily Ever After, Guaranteed
Editor’s Note: This is part of the “one of my favorites” category and an appropriate post following Mary Ann’s Expectations post from last week. Go to your local bookstore and search the shelves for as many save your relationship books as you can find. You’ll likely come across more than 100 titles. So with all [...]
50 Ways to Improve Your Marriage in 2010
Editor’s Note: This post is from Tess Marshall of The Bold Life. What would your marriage look like in 2011 if you focused on improving it for the next twelve months? In a world filled with stress and fear the very thing we can find comfort in–our primary relationship, we tend to ignore or take [...]
Expectations . . . The Path to an Unhappy Marriage
Editor’s Note: This post is by Simple Marriage contributor Mary Ann Crossno. If a good working definition of expectations is planned disappointment, then the outcome of expectations will be unhappiness. When what we expect to happen does not happen, we are disappointed and we suffer pain at some level. The greater the expectation, the greater [...]
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