Thoughts about singleness, relationships, dating, and marriage
“You complete me.” That is the famous line from Jerry Maguire that Tom Cruise’s character says to Renee Zellweger’s character right before he asks her to marry him.
Even though this line is super cheesy, it reflects the reality of what many people are looking for in a relationship: someone to complete them. And once you find this person, then you should marry him or her and spend the rest of your life together so you can live happily ever after.
Day 1
“Where you will go I will go. Where you lodge, I lodge. Your people shall be my people and your God, my God”. I clasped my new husband Varun’s hands tightly, not knowing where our journey together would lead, but certain I wanted to go with him. As we jetted off to our honeymoon, we brought two suitcases filled with all we would need for wedded bliss: sunscreen, lingerie, a few books, love, and anticipation for the future.
Meet Ray and Irma Ziff, who have been married for 75 years. What is their secret to staying married for so long? “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight it out.”
Watch this great interview that Ray and Irma did with Yakov Smirnoff (they also did a similar interview with Jay Leno). It gives me great hope and inspiration to see a couple married for so long and still in love with each other.
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Dear Single Men,
I am writing this letter to warn you about marriage and parenting. I used to be single, and now I’m married with a baby. Life is very different.
VERY different.
“I can’t find any mature men to date.” All too often, this is what I hear from women – especially Christian women. They bemoan the fact that every man they know is not mature enough (or the mature ones are all taken). Well, here’s what I think: the mature man is difficult to find because the mature man is a myth. He does not exist.
The first year of marriage only happens once. So when we got married, we figured it would be good for us to intentionally invest in it to set a good foundation for our future together; to make the first year count. Since we viewed our relationship with each other as the base for our future family, we wanted to pour into it as much as we could right at the start so what when the storms came (as they inevitably would), we would have something to fall back on. Now that we have a baby, we are very glad we did this.
When people see my simple wedding band, some of them wonder where my diamond solitaire engagement ring is. Well, I never got one. Instead, I got a goat. Strange, you say? Well, let me tell you the story.