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Can Your Husband Trust You?

Let me ask you a question…can your husband trust you? I’m not talking about in the sense that you won’t cheat on him. Of course, I hope he can trust you in that way. But I’m talking about the “little” stuff, or the stuff that we categorize as being little. Can your husband trust you with the finances? Do you spend without making sure you have the money? Do you spend even when you know you don’t have the money? Do you hide purchases? These are all ways that might demonstrate you can’t be trusted with the finances. Can your … Continue reading →

What I Learned from a Child and a Football Match

When God wants to teach us something he mainly uses His Word, but that’s not the only means at His disposal. God can use whatever means He chooses. He is God. Recently I learned something about God and the way He sees things, from a child and a football game. A young boy had gone to his first game of AFL (Australian football.) As he sat in his seat in the stands watching, he said to his father. ‘It’s different to watching it on TV. On TV you only get to see one little piece of what is happening on … Continue reading →

Snooping On Your Spouse

When I was young, I remember my mother saying eavesdroppers never hear well of themselves. The idea being that sometimes what we overhear is not want we want to hear at all. Maybe the same applies to snooping. I’m talking here specifically about snooping on your spouse. It wasn’t what I’d planned to write about at all, but it’s come up a bit lately. Firstly, in a movie where the person snooped in their wife’s diary and found things he didn’t really want to find. Then in a book where the mother snooped in her daughter’s diary. I’ve read in … Continue reading →

Putting Things Into Perspective

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Today I’m going to look at another aspect of perspective. It is keeping things in perspective in marriage. At some point our spouse is going to do things that will anger, hurt or in some way annoy us, but we each need to put those things into perspective in the big picture of a marriage. For example if your husband or wife has an affair, that is a major thing in a relationship. You will need to think seriously about whether you can forgive and trust them again, assuming they are sorry and want to stay together. Basically you and … Continue reading →

When Trust Is Broken

What about when trust is broken or betrayed? Can trust be re-ignited? These were questions that came out of one of the comments on one of my recent blogs. Now I can’t answer that question because, thankfully, I have never been in that position. I can think there might be things I would not forgive and would find hard to trust again, but I don’t really know. The reality is none of us can really answer that question. We often think or say what we would or wouldn’t do in a certain situation, but when we are placed in the … Continue reading →

A Matter of Trust

I wonder how many of you noticed yesterday that there was one obvious T missing? Did you? There was a reason for that. The reason is it deserves a blog all its own. The word is trust. Do you trust your spouse implicitly? Do they trust you in that way? Do you trust each enough to be true to you when you are apart? How far would you trust your spouse with another woman or man as the case may be? Would you trust your man not to flirt but to behave if he goes out on a night with … Continue reading →

Taking Over

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I am a pretty independent lady. I was single for many more years than I thought I would be, so by the time I found my sweetheart I had already defined much of my life. I had finished my education and was financially, emotionally, and spiritually stable. I had, out of necessity, filled all the gaps. So adjusting to a shared life was a bit more of a struggle than I had anticipated. I still wanted to control the finances and took over worrying about our temporal well-being with gusto. During a frank conversation one night, my husband, Chad, asked … Continue reading →

Essentials for Happy Lasting Marriage

Here are my first five essentials for a happy lasting marriage. Last night as Mick and I played a game of Settlers of Catan, I was thinking about our marriage and thinking about how far we’ve come over our more than 40 years of marriage from that young couple that started out together. So here are a few of my essentials. 1. Love Love is the obvious starting point. But not the wishy washy excuse for love we see on movie and TV screens. And not just lust or chemical attraction which also gets portrayed often but a real concern … Continue reading →

Learning from Joshua

Joshua is one of my favorite characters in the bible, because of his unwavering trust in and obedience to God. We might ask, ‘How can this story of Joshua help us in our lives right now?’ Here are some thoughts from Joshua chapter 1. In Joshua 1:1 we see that it is after the death of Moses that God commissioned Joshua. But God had been preparing him before that. For a long time he was an assistant to Moses, learning from him, Exodus 17:9-14, 24:13, Exodus 33:11, Numbers 11:28, Numbers 27:18. In verses 1-5 God commissioned Joshua, promising land and … Continue reading →

Trust and Pet Ownership

It requires a lot of trust to own a pet. Have you ever noticed that? I didn’t understand how much trust is involved in pet ownership until all this stuff with Murphy’s paw happened. Now I realize how many people and institutions a pet owner must trust on a daily basis. Here’s a few to show you what I’m talking about. 1. Trusting Vets We trust our vets to administer the proper vaccinations annually for our pet’s health. We also trust that the vet knows how to do this and that the vaccines they’re administering are safe. When our pets … Continue reading →