Month: April 2016

No Time To Yourself? Create a Weekly Self Care Night With Your Spouse

When was the last time you spent a few hours doing something by yourself FOR yourself? Create a weekly self-care night with your spouse and it can be a lot more often. Recently I’ve been reading a book called Essentialism, which is supposed to teach me how to discern what is truly essential and eliminate all that is not so I can give my all to what really matters. I like the book and I’m on board, the only problem is while telling me to eliminate everything, it also says, ‘oh but also you have spend time on YOURSELF. Exercise, read,… Read More

How to Pray in a Way God Can Answer

Ever wonder why we don’t always get what we pray for? It could be because we’re asking for the wrong things. Time for another Spiritual Sunday post! Again coming at you on a Wednesday. Spiritual Sunday does what it wants. I wrote an article for LDS.org that went live last week. It was all pretty exciting stuff- I’ve never had something I’ve written reach so many people (55,000 likes so far on the Church’s Facebook page- crazy!). If I had to have one thing I write be so far spread, I’m glad it was about something as powerful and uplifting… Read More

Porn Addiction Side Effects

Introducing a great resource researching the side effects of porn addiction. Few things tug at my heart strings more than reading the search terms people type into Google to find my sight. Particularly when it deals with pornography. A few examples: “porn addiction help” “how to get husband to stop watching porn” “porn addiction relapse” “husband addicted to porn” “any hope for porn addicts” “my husband had an affair and is addicted to porn” 🙁 See what I mean? I hosted a series for help with pornography addiction this time last year and have been anxious to re-visit the subject… Read More

Just for fun: My Husband’s Tweets About Me

It’s been a while since we’ve had just for fun post. So, just for fun, I thought we’d take a gander at a few of my husband’s tweets that include the word “wife.” (He doesn’t know I’m doing this 😉 ) Although I do have an account, I am never, ever on twitter. I don’t understand the shorthand. It all looks like a bunch of linky mumbo-jumbo to me. Plus its frustrating how many clicks you have to make to follow a conversation. What am I made of clicks? Who’s got time for that? In any case, for this reason,… Read More

When Your Spouse Bothers You - Part 2

Marriage panel members answer the question of what to do when your spouse bothers you. This post is part of our ASK THE PANEL series where readers submit questions and our marriage panel answers them. As explained here. Here’s the submitted question: ” . . . . I’ve been married a little over two years now and I still don’t feel like I’ve gotten down figuring out when I’m in the wrong and when my husband is. Our marriage is pretty good, but little things my husband does bother me all the time. Like, when he is oblivious to how… Read More