So one of the things that bugs me most about premarital counseling and advice that we get from family, friends, pastors, even counselors, is that marriage is not going to be romantic. It can’t be. The romance is going to disappear. That’s just a given. You might as well get used to it. So we start to expect that.
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“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.“
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
For more than a decade, I’ve been trying to help your wives understand you. I give up.
You men are far too complex for women to understand.
- Mostly because women think they already know who you are.
- And because you think that your gender is simple and obvious.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
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One godly man changed my life forever. My experience with him is summed up nicely with this speech, quoted from the 1955 film A Man Called Peter. The movie was based on the book by Catherine Marshall, wife of the future Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.
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