Tag Archives: marriage

Only a hopeless, clueless, pie-eyed romantic could go through four marriages without learning something of value.

It’s very hard to justify sitting by yourself watching television when the woman you claim to love is working her fingers to the bone for your benefit.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church marriage is a sacred and holy mystery joining a man and a woman in union with God.

It's both spouses being baptized that makes a marriage sacramental.

Grabbing a sheet of paper, I started listing household tasks in one column and then created two adjacent columns to record the percentage of each chore Ellen and I performed. How sweet this was going to be when, upon completing the list, I would see the 50/50 split in nearly every category, except for those where the percentage was heavily weighted on my side.

Growth in faith often is greatest when religion's back is against the wall.