Love + Relationships

On July 5th, sixteen years ago, my husband and I stood at the front of my parent's church surrounded by family and friends and publicly proclaimed our commitment to one another. I had grand visions of what our wedding...

Dear Mama Whose Partner Works Long Hours, From the moment you wake up in the morning to your little ones yelling "Mama! Get up!" to the moment you finish the bedtime routine with a special song and walk out of...

Becoming a mother was such an adventure for me. I never envisioned myself being a single parent at the age of twenty one, I also never knew the amount of insecurity and misguided trust issues a young girl can...

The little pink line. The little blue line. Nobody told us when we were little girls just how much a tiny splotch of dye in a tiny window on a "just peed on" stick would mean for the course of our...

Mothers-in-law get a seriously bad rap. And usually, it's well-deserved. It's much more common to have a weird or completely broken relationship with your MIL than it is to have a good, open relationship. We've all heard our fair share...

Many moons ago, I made the decision to quit watching Romantic Comedies. It wasn't something I announced; it wasn't something I demanded others must do. I quietly stopped watching them, and I stopped suggesting them to my husband when...

I hear it all the time. "Oh your husband is military? I could never do that." I've been called strong, a hero, and a super hero. I've been told I have the most difficult job in the military. Guys, I'm flattered, really...

We've all had those days... You know the ones. Those days where you look at the man you married and can only see all the things you think he's doing wrong or wish he'd change. Those days where you feel...

  Do you remember when you were child-free and blissfully ignorant, but full of ideas about what you would never do as a mom? Then you became a mom and realized how ridiculous you sounded. Now you know better than...

As our family draws closer and closer to another deployment I am preparing as usual. I am updating my emergency information, writing down when and how my husband normally does his chores and setting a monthly alarm for the...

One of the activities my husband and the guys in his family like to do every year is camping. They try to go in spring and fall each year and they bring the potty-trained kids with them. So far,...

My husband and I have been together about five years now, and along the way we have realized we each have particular "buttons," if you will, and because of that, we set some ground rules for our marriage. Of...