Month: May 2020

We’ve been on quite a ride, haven’t we? A couple of weeks ago I was checking plane fares for two upcoming trips…a wedding in Arizona and a board meeting in Ohio. I was helping organize a part of our neighborhood service project, looking forward to the start of baseball season, and watching the weeds grow in my backyard because it was too soggy to mow.

Just a normal spring here on the Grand Prairie. And then everything changed. Like. Everything.

People have used words like surreal. Strange. Weird. Scary. A nightmare. But no matter what you call it, it’s our new reality. A least for a while. Maybe a long while.

I said tonight in my “North Point State of the Fam” address, I am an optimist. And not just any old optimist. I’m a glass half full, rose-colored glasses, full on, card-carryiong Pollyanna kind of optimist.

Not that there…

Do you think it’s strange that I’ve chosen to start writing Marriage Tuesdays again in the middle of the Covid crisis?  I hope not.  Honestly, it’s a pretty risky time for marriages.  Home routines have been disrupted.  No relief from the kids.  Job insecurities.  Financial pressure.  Health concerns.  Emotions on edge.  Uncertainty over the future.

Yeah.  I bet there are a bunch of marriages taking hits right now.  So what do you do?

Go back to ground zero.

I think one of the first places where marriages get off track is with a wrong  understanding of love.

For the last forty years, or so, I have asked the same question to dozens and dozens of young couples who have come to me to help them prepare for marriage.  It’s a simple question, but I’ve got to ask it, and the dialogue usually goes something like this:

“So why do you…