Five Years, Five Lessons
September 5, 2010, was a significant day in our marriage. It was the day my eyes were opened to the hurt my husband was experiencing …
Window into My Life
Questioning an Assumption: Is Being Valued for Sex Such a Bad Thing?
In the most recent installment of the on-going conversation I’m having with CSL at The Curmudgeonly Librarian, I made a comment about wives feeling …
Slipped Up by a Banana Peel
It started with a banana peel. Specifically, it was about where to throw away the aforementioned peel. Yes. Seriously. I wish I were making …
A Wife’s Heart: A Colloquy
As I wrote about last week, CSL at The Curmudgeonly Librarian invited me to write a guest post in which I got to respond …
A Wife’s Heart
And now for something completely different . . . or not. I write for women, not for men—most of the time. While most of my …
Last Year’s Fruit
My family moved a couple months ago. Although I am sad to be losing the lilacs up at the top of my page (unless my …
When Many Women Struggle
It is Mother’s Day in the US, and many women are hurting today. I have good friends whose hearts ache because they once again face …
A Tale of Sinuses, a Bladder, and Avoidance
This post is going to get a little personal—and not in a sexy way. If reading about stress incontinence would be too traumatic for you, …
Listen Up!
Belah Rose at Delight Your Marriage has a podcast series of interviews with marriage writers about their marriages, seasons of struggle, and journeys of transformation. …
A Reflection on Two
Today is the two-year anniversary of my first post on The Forgiven Wife. How time flies. I’ve moved! While you can peruse the archives here, …
When the Walls Are Down
When there were walls between my husband and me, I wasn’t able to give him the love he needed. I wasn’t able to receive …
Refinement and Focus
In the spring of 2013 when I began The Forgiven Wife, I had a clear sense of the blog’s mission. It took me a while …
2014 in Review
I looked at the calendar and realized that next year comes this week. Ack! Where did the time go? 2014 has been a …
From Grievance to Gratitude
My Facebook feed is filled with people expressing thankfulness and gratitude in this month of Thanksgiving in the US. I’ve always been one to look for …
When There’s a Chipmunk in Your Marriage
I’ve always thought chipmunks were cute, scurrying around in our yard, stuffing their cheeks with birdseed and generally looking adorable. In the past, however, …