Your Marriage Matters is excited to announce we are hosting a premarital preparation workshop on April 23rd! When: Saturday, April 23rd, 2016 from 9 AM – 4PM Where: Hampton Inn & Suites – 1955 Waddle Rd. State College, PA 16803 Who: For couples who are engaged or thinking about getting married in the near future What: […]
Forgive: 1. to stop feeling angry about something or toward someone 2. to stop requiring payment 3. to give up resentment of 4. to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve 5. to give up all claim on account of; remit (a debt, obligation, etc.) I stumbled upon these descriptions when […]
Coming Home The manner in which we start something often dictates how it ends. If you go into a tense meeting at work already anxious, it will likely result in acting flustered. If you start a construction project without much planning, it will likely lead to multiple expensive trips back to Home Depot. How you […]
“I just don’t desire sex anymore.” James solemnly stated with an air of defeat in his voice. His wife Susan let out an exasperated sigh. With a hopeless look upon her face, her eyes began filling with tears. They both looked to me with a sense of inevitability, that this is just the unavoidable reality […]
Written by Your Marriage Matters intern: Kristen Elliott I can’t help but get excited when I think about getting married someday. I’ve been dating my boyfriend for quite awhile now (5 years to be exact), and we’ve been dreaming about marriage ever since our first date. What about marriage is so appealing that both young […]
Loving your spouse should be easy, right? Afterall, you chose to marry him/her. There seems to be a cultural myth that loving your spouse should be easy if they are “the right person”. People leave relationship after relationship hoping that the next set of arms they fall into will be “the one” and therefore will […]
“I love you, I’m just not in love with you.” I hear this phrase uttered all too often, as if it’s an emotional balm that will somehow soothe the heartache that was just unleashed. I’ve long cringed at the dishonesty and […]
As I sit here on a cold, wet and dreary February morning in central PA, trying to write an inspiring invitation to celebrate National Marriage Month, I was faced with a perplexing question: why February to celebrate marriage? It’s often dreary, still dark, and possesses a lingering post-Christmas holiday depression. Not exactly Hollywood romance material. Looking […]