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October 2015

October 28, 2015

Not everything is fixable (God have mercy on us all)

A caller once asked radio host Dr. Laura for advice about an impossible situation. I...

October 26, 2015

Up from Unity Candles

My marriage is now an adult! It's eighteen years old as of yesterday. Here's a...

October 24, 2015

I just figured out why it was called “The Synod on the Family.”

I just figured out the entire Synod. Or at least, I figured out something...

October 13, 2015

My Aleteia piece on the suffering faithful…

is spotlighted today: The Church is full of the obedient wounded. The flock...

October 08, 2015

Married to an angry man: An open letter to the Synod Fathers (GUEST POST)

This is a guest post written by the friend of a friend. The writer goes by...

October 07, 2015

Everybody knows the Church will change. (Everybody is wrong.)

Many Catholics believe the Synod on the Family will drive home the final nail in...

September 2015

September 08, 2015

How about post-Cana counseling?

For many young couples, their main problem is that they simply don't have any...

July 2015

July 24, 2015

On complaining honestly about NFP (and other crosses)

Want to complain about NFP? Far be it from me to stop you! You could...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Will the Catholic Church be hurt by the Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage?

Hats off to everyone who was surprised by today's Supreme Court ruling that states cannot...

June 09, 2015

I just had the ultimate married couple conversation

Me: Did you find those packets of nuts I put in your car? I know...

May 2015

May 21, 2015

Only a rightly-ordered heart feels grief

e know some couples who don't fight very much, but they don't seem...

February 2015

February 09, 2015

On Valentine’s day, communication, and not getting kicked in the nuts

This year, I revealed to my husband that I actually kind of like Valentine’s...

July 2014

July 11, 2014

How I learned to stop worrying about wifely obedience and love my husband

Ephesians 5:22! Ephesians 5:22! Let's all panic about Ephesians 5:22! Nah. I'm not afraid of...

July 03, 2014

Hooray for the African Queen!

Along with Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould, which I only put into our Netflix queue...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

Dr. Greg Popcak on marriage after baby

I'm putting together an article for Our Sunday Visitor about how marriages change after a...

May 2014

May 19, 2014

Life is too short for bad sex with a good husband.

This is the greatest letter I’ve gotten in a million years. It’s from MightyMighty at...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

At the Register: Doctrine doesn’t change over the phone

Ring-ring. Hello? Hi, it's the Pope, and guess what? It's OPPOSITE DAY! From Conversations that...

March 2014

March 20, 2014

God is faithful, but we’re not marrying God.

PIC split tree bound back together Every day, I bless a merciful God that there...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Try this one weird trick for ending the war on women

You know what would cut through 99% of this crap, where we find ourselves arguing...

September 2013

September 20, 2013

Because my husband said I should . . .

Here is an excerpt from the chapter I'm contributing to a book about marriage: Children...

September 17, 2013

At the Register: If You’re Happy and You’re Married, Let It Show

Oopsie, that title was just a placeholder. Pushed "publish" before I thought of something...

September 16, 2013

Time for Married Priests?

NBC did a story on married priests, and included comments by Mark Shea. Looks like...

August 2013

August 14, 2013

Lots of siblings = low divorce rate?

Interesting little tidbit on CatholicCulture.org: Sociologists from Ohio State University have found that children from large...

June 2013

June 25, 2013

At the Register: Why Marriages Explode

How is a marriage like a rotting corpse? Find out in today's actually kind of...

March 2011

March 25, 2011

So tell me: Marriage Prep

All this talk about young married couples has sent me on a trip down memory...

March 23, 2011

Why doesn’t the Church just make a list?

image source When Catholics talk about NFP, someone always asks rather plaintively why the Church...

February 2011

February 17, 2011

Communication keeps a marriage strong.

Him: I love you. Me: I love you, too. But if you get me pregnant,...

January 2011

January 31, 2011

Time for married priests?

Why doesn't the Latin Rite Church just start ordaining married men again? If men can't...

September 2010

September 22, 2010

“You have nothing else but God.”

Today's post was written by "Pansy" for her blog, Pansy and Peony -- and she...