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Bonding With the In-Laws: The Youngest Sibling

One of the weirdest things about marrying into a large family was that I’ve been around for almost the entire life of my littlest brother-in-law.  When Jon and I first started dating, and I met the family for the first time, his youngest brother was only a bit over a year old.  While he knows most of Jon’s other siblings very well, because they all lived at home with him for years (and some still do), Jon wasn’t around much when he was growing up.  So Jon, his own brother, isn’t really that much more of a presence in his … Continue reading →

Are You Hard to Please?

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A recent show I was watching displayed a group of men discussing their marriages and relationships. In this conversation, the men were complaining that their women were impossible to please. They commented that no matter what it was that they did, it was never good enough. So are they right? Are women impossible to please? Do we always long for more? I should never admit it but I began thinking that perhaps they are right. I could visual a woman who would give anything for her husband to do something romantic just one night. She would be some overwhelmed and … Continue reading →

Marriage Week in Review: January 7 – January 13

Wow this has been quite a week in the marriage section of Families.com! Courtney and I have kept the articles coming and the topics rolling! In case you missed one of the discussions, check out below for headlines from the week! Monday, January 7 Is He the Man of Your Dreams? In this article I discuss how some women take it to the extreme constantly downing their husbands. While no human is perfect, in our eyes our spouse should be close. Running into an Ex This article received several comments. In it, I discussed the different feelings that we may … Continue reading →

Do Men with Sisters Make Better Husbands?

Wayne and I got to talking over the holidays about men and women and sometimes how hard it is for the one to read the other. He feels it’s easier for women to decipher men, but men are generally clueless about what makes women tick. And what ticks them off. And how to approach them when you’re in that dating phase. I was surprised to hear that from him. “You were nervous about talking to girls?” “Heck yeah! I didn’t know what to say to them. They were a complete mystery to me. You never knew what to expect or … Continue reading →

General Conference: “The Tongue of Angels”

In his talk “The Tongue of Angels” Elder Jeffrey R Holland counsels us to watch the way that we speak to each other. Elder Holland opens his talk by pointing out the times that the prophets have used their words to cause things to happen. He then moves on to James 3:2-10, which refers to the harsh words that the saints of that time are saying against each other. Elder Holland goes on to say that it is important to realize that we should not say bitter mean things to others. It is important that we use our words to … Continue reading →

Women’s Fitness: Your Duty to Yourself

Good morning Ladies, how are you today? Well, I hope. Me? Oh, I’m a bit tired. I’ve been working too much again and not taking enough time for myself. I seem to spend my life in an expectant stage of going from one project to another so fast that I forget to stop and take a breath in between them. This isn’t a healthy way to exist and I, of all people, am aware of it. Ladies, Our Duty is to Ourselves As wives, mothers, daughters and sisters we tend to overlook ourselves in favor of our husbands, our children, … Continue reading →