Hi everyone! I wanted to republish a post that I did last Good Friday, with a few minor changes. I hope you are all doing well today and I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
–Matthew 6:12
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A marriage counsellor can help give us hope by being a mediator between us and helping us to understand each other. Marriage counselling can help get us past the things that bind us to our past and hurt.
Seven years ago, a marriage counsellor gave my husband and me a second chance when she took us under her wings and helped us sort the mess that was our relationship. We were fighting all the time and the first sessions with her were volatile but with infinite patience, she helped us find the love that was hiding underneath the strife and hurt.
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Hi everyone! I hope you are having a good week. The last month of my life has been spent getting ready for and then directing Vacation Bible School. It has been a crazy amount of work and a crazy amount of fun. For this week, I have published an excerpt from the book I just recently wrote, Second Marriage: An Insider’s Guide to Hope, Healing & Love.
One of the hard parts about a second marriage can be accepting that your “original dreams” did not come true. You did stay “live happily ever after” with the person in your first marriage. If your partner was married before, you are not their first wife or husband.
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The third piece of advice in this ongoing second marriage tip series is “let go of the past.” This is a series of quick tips designed to help you in your marriage.
Many marriages break up when they cannot see past all the hurt in their history.
Not letting go means that we use the past as a filter in how we view the present. We will interpret our partner’s actions by things that happened to us in our last relationship.
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