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Imagine Everyone Would Say Yes
— The first date my wife, Jen, and I went on was more or less blind. I was seventeen and had seen her in a play I’d gone to watch my younger brother in. Though he’d shown her a picture of me, we’d...
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Pick Up Your Socks and Other Relationship Problems
— I’m not in a romantic relationship right now, but I have friends who are married or seeing someone. I hear complaints of all kinds from my homies about how their partner (husband usually) annoys the...
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Cold Feet and Warm Hearts—Are You Afraid To Get Married?
— I’m a naturally anxious person, so when I read things like “getting married causes people anxiety,” I almost want to laugh. Everything causes me anxiety. But, I understand why marriage would make...
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Scary Daddies Part 2: Don Draper
The Bad Man Within At face value, Don Draper was the perfect man: a strong, silent, high-powered Madison Avenue ad agency executive with a beautiful wife and two doting children. How could there be...
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The Season of Thanks—Giving to Get
Ordinary and Extraordinary Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice begins with, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a...
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It’s a Gift, Not an Entitlement
In the mid-1980s I was part of the now-long-disbanded post-college fellowship at my then-church, founded and led by the church’s parish assistant who had put together a “relationships seminar” (my,...
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Secrets for a Successful Marriage
The Fab Hub and I have no business telling anybody else how to have a happy or successful marriage. We are by far not the poster children for blissfully happy marriage. That sounds awful, doesn’t it?...
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What to Do When Your Spouse Isn’t Your Soulmate
The person you’re married to—or will marry one day—isn’t your soulmate. [Insert very dramatic orchestra music here.] It sucks, I know. How can I be sure? If we begin with the basic assumption that...
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Shakespeare – Hidden Skeptic?
Of course, Shakespeare was a Christian. It was a crime to be otherwise in a time when church attendance was enforced by law. But whether he believed the supernatural dogmas remains a topic of debate....
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I Couldn’t Handle the Pressure of ‘Looking’ Married
— On June 30th, 2020 I woke up to a very disturbing piece of news. The Guwahati High Court had granted divorce to a man after having observed that “A lady who has entered into marriage according to...
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