My dreams of my spouse… versus God’s dream for my spouse Part 1
A funny postscript to last week’s post: Someone asked me whether my prayers had worked yet! While yes, I believe my prayers …
How to pray to receive a spouse – further thoughts
I’ve previously written a post about how to pray for a spouse. This post here builds on that previous post. This new …
Legitimate self-concern versus “unconditional love” in marriage Part 3
This is the third part to this post. The other parts are available here: Legitimate self-concern versus “unconditional love” in marriage Part …
Legitimate self-concern versus “unconditional love” in marriage Part 2
This is the second part to an article posted last week Part 3 of this article is available here The three parts …
Legitimate self-concern versus “unconditional love” in marriage Part 1
The three parts of this post have now been compiled into a single free ebook, available in a wide variety of formats. …
The disadvantage of youth?
After all the thoughts that have occurred to me on the subject of love, relationships and marriage, I was recently reflecting on …
Excellent wife material? Part 2
This is the second part to this post. The first is available here. I do not think that there is anything wrong …
Excellent wife material? Part 1
I’m going to apologise in advance as this post is largely about myself, so it might have limited relevance to other people! …
Some thoughts on Sexual Temptation Part 2
This is the second part to this post. The first is available here This is all the more true, of course, if …
Some thoughts on Sexual Temptation Part 1
OK, this is a bit of a big post title. Before you read this post, if you are a Christian, I STRONGLY …
The meaning of “For better, for worse”
This is a post that expands an issue that I lightly touched on last week: the meaning of “For better or for …
Positive Feed-Forward
Happy Easter Sunday to everyone, happy Resurrection Sunday! Well, as this is Easter Sunday, mindful of the sacrifice that Christ made for …
A positive, prayerful way of giving difficult feedback
In my many thoughts about marriage, something that I have thought about a lot is a constructive way of handling difficult issues, …
Positivity!
I’m currently struggling to decide whether many of my recent blog posts here have been overwhelmingly negative. If you have been reading …
Are you better off married….or single? Part 2
This is the second part to this post. The first is available here When we are dreaming happily about marriage in general …
Are you better off married….or single? Part 1
Let me start off by quickly saying that if I could choose between having a brilliant marriage and having a brilliant life …
A husband equals…a glass ceiling? Part 4
This is the fourth part of this post. The first is available here The second is available here The third is available …
A husband equals…a glass ceiling? Part 3
This is the third part of this post. The first is available here The second is available here All parts of this …
A husband equals…a glass ceiling? Part 2
This is the second part of this post,the first is available here All parts of this blog post are now available here …
A husband equals…a glass ceiling? Part 1
All parts of this post are now available together as a single free ebook in a full variety of ebook formats here …
Happy Mothers’ Day!
Wishing Happy Mothers’ Day to all the mothers, grandmothers, aunties, family friends, sisters and other ladies who have helped shaped us into …
A real man versus Mr Wonderful Dream
This is an idea that in a way flows quite smoothly on from the post of love versus infatuation which I wrote …
The difference between love and infatuation
Well Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! In honour of Valentine’s day I am going to write today on a subject that is very …
Feelings of inadequacy
I don’t know why it is, but my mind will be buzzing with interesting and exciting ideas for blog posts all week, …
Thoughts about Communication
Here are some thoughts that I have been thinking about communication. I used to think that communication would be comparatively easy within …
Why the time before your marriage can be the most powerful part of your marriage
I am sure I have expressed these thoughts before on this blog, perhaps scattered through different blog posts. I believe that the …
Tosin’s Guy Rules
This is a post that I’ve been thinking of writing for a while. However, even though this is a blog that gets …
Communication Issues – Continued
Well after writing last week’s post on communication, I was reflecting a bit and thinking that there might be lots more reasons …
Merry Christmas from Finding Mr Huggie-Wuggie!
Ah, so Mr Huggie-Wuggie, it seems as if you have managed to elude my grasp for this year also?! Thank you to …
Communication Issues are often Character Issues, Trust Issues
I’ve been thinking a lot about “communication” in marriage. Various wise and knowledgeable people refer to it as the lifeblood in any …
Dating
In my posts, I refer a lot to “dating”. I often speak quite negatively about it. Here, I thought I would clarify …
I don’t love you any more!
I sometimes wonder why it is in the midst of hard times that people break up. I always think that that is …
My attitude to Internet Dating
This is a blog post that I’ve been thinking about writing for a long time. A number of people have advised me …
How to pray to receive a spouse – one way
[This post contains quite a long preamble – so here is a link to jump straight to the actual content of how …
Everybody changes!
Last week I considered the subject of how to be confident, even from before marriage, that a future spouse will keep getting better …
The difference between no-one’s perfect…and no-one’s perfect Part 2
This is the second part to this post. The first is available here Overtaking? Sometimes, if someone is aggressively pursuing excellence, even …
The difference between no-one’s perfect…and no-one’s perfect Part 1
The content of this post is now available as a free ebook from Smashwords, in a wide variety of formats here When …
Ditching the toxic “marriage maths mentality” Part 2
This is the second part to this post. The first is available here Actually, I believe that everyone has the potential to …
Ditching the toxic “marriage maths mentality” Part 1
This post is about mathematical issues regarding finding a spouse, and why I believe people (and especially women) should have the courage …
Ladies – know your cycle!
Update: Tuesday 23 October 2012: This post is now available as a free ebook from Smashwords in a variety of ebook formats …
Obedience first, understanding later Part 2
This is the second part to this post. The first part is available here If you got married as a Christian to …
Obedience first, understanding later
I’m going to start this post with what is now a customary apology for not having posted here for what is now …
Apology to a university colleague
This is a long overdue apology to someone I was at university with: [youtube]http://youtu.be/ZQmZvY_0yco[/youtube]
Musings on “No matter what”, and bringing the best out of your spouse
I think it would probably be most honest of me to admit that a big reason why I am almost insisting to …
My dream Valentine’s Day!
Well anyone who has been following this blog at all will know that I have not posted here for a while. The …
A little bit of “So There!”
The idea for this article post occurred to me last week even as I was writing out my previous post, and it …
Would it be OK…?
After the seriousness of the last few blog posts, this one is quite light-hearted. However, I think that this is one that …
Overview of Marriage Continued
OK, this is an addition that I’ve been meaning to post since I wrote the last post – overview of marriage. And …