The Two Sides of Marriage

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

The Couple That Prays Together

Praying with their wives is one of the last things some men do. Why? Perhaps it's because prayer places them in a position of dependence upon God and ...

The Wetting

I was embarrassed when I, the groom, cried at my own wedding. I was doubly mortified when our flower girl, my 7-year-old sister, drew a picture of the ...

Love Never Changes

Your face I love, but should it change

by wrinkles, scars, disease,

Love would not change, for I love you,

not just what my eye sees.

And so, though time's ...

Close to Invincible

Trust (in marriage) is freedom, the freedom to be our truest selves. But is that all it is? I've also learned that trust is the deep, ever-present ...

Showing Your Fall Colors

Fall knows winter's coming, yet still gives its showy display, still makes its flamboyant exit. I hold this image for my marriage. ... I can identify ...

Each Couple Is Unique

God's creation is remarkably diverse: from penguins to horses to Persian cats. Each feeds, mates, seeks shelter, but their sharp differences make ...

The Peace of Marriage

There is woven into the fabric of marriage-as-God-intended a sense of something ongoing. One woman, one man, together under a roof for 50 years or so. ...

The Secret of True Harmony

It is only when a husband and wife pray together before God that they find the secret of true harmony: that the difference in their temperaments, their ...

How to Choose a Wife

I am none of those insane lovers who embrace also the vices of those with whom they are in love, where they are smitten at first sight with a fine figure. ...