Category: Marriage
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Marriage: When Everything Feels Hard
Chad and I have been married for eleven years. There have been easy years and there have been hard ones. There have been years with many changes, losses, or achievements. There have been years that were more ordinary, our time filled with work and weekends together and household chores. Some years look very much like…
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Marriage: An Exercise in Sustaining
This weekend, Chad and I are celebrating ten years of marriage. Ten years. I don’t take that for granted. I know the last ten years of my life (fourteen including our dating years) have been so much sweeter, richer, and fuller because I’ve had Chad by my side. I don’t doubt that for one second.…
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Marriage: An Exercise in Care
Chad and I have been married for nine years. Those nine years have been marked by different events and milestones, every year bringing something new. I hope it is always like that: that our marriage is an adventure that continually requires faith and commitment and growth. Some years, we started new jobs or new businesses;…
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Marriage: An Exercise in Endurance
This past year has tried to hold so much that it’s bursting at the seams. This, our eighth year, has been about schedules and details and lists and to-dos. It’s been many months of busy weekends and busier weeks, traveling close to home and far away, completing one task just to have ten more waiting in the…
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A Map and A Glass of Wine
My husband, Chad, is in the wine business. He started his own wine education and consulting company almost three years ago called (Un)Common Grape. He’s written blogs and interviewed people, made videos and podcasts, and poured wine for hundreds of people, telling them stories about wineries and grapes and projects from specific winemakers. We’ve traveled to…
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Marriage: An Exercise in Intention
Chad and I have made it through another year of marriage. Today is our seventh anniversary. Many things have changed this year and, as always, many things have stayed the same. I started a new job, I started grad school, I started writing a book. All of these things came after our conversation on our sixth…
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Marriage: An Exercise in Sacrifice
Today Chad and I are celebrating our sixth wedding anniversary. Every September 20, we try to think back on the past year, about how we’ve grown or changed or what went wrong and what went right. And my first thoughts this year are about sacrifice. Marriage isn’t always about sacrifice. There are definitely times when you…
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Out of Sync
I love being married. And I really love my husband. He’s my best friend and my favorite person and I love spending time with him. He takes good care of me and he teaches me and he listens and laughs and loves so well. I know there’s no one else I’d want to be married to,…
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I Pray for More Time
Here’s what I know: the idea of losing my husband terrorizes me. We have one of those “I go first” deals that I’ve heard many a wife say they’ve made with their husbands. I don’t want life without him and when I think about it, the emotions of that grief and fear can overwhelm me. I…
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Marriage: An Exercise in Faith
Today is our fifth wedding anniversary. Five years ago, Chad and I had the most beautiful wedding ceremony at a gorgeous park. The day was bright and warm, even at 10 a.m. Our wedding guests were seated around a large round pond and my dad walked me down a grassy walkway to stand with Chad.…
jamie y. watkins 