by Brandon Blankenship | Jun 26, 2021 | Craft Marriage
Do you want a better marriage? Stop being so confident. What happens when we’re confident about our relationships is we start neglecting them. We don’t spend the amount of time or money that are necessary to maintain or improve those relationships. We...
by Brandon Blankenship | Jun 26, 2021 | Craft Marriage
Do you want a better marriage? Let go of your grudge. A grudge is a feeling of resentment that you might have because of an insult or some kind of injury in the past. And it may be very valid. I’m not saying that the hurt feelings you might hold aren’t...
by Brandon Blankenship | Jun 18, 2021 | Craft Marriage
Do you want a better marriage? Learn to embrace the person you’re with. An interesting thing about dating is that everybody has an idea of the person that they want to be with, the type of person that they want to be with. They imagine what that person is like....
by Brandon Blankenship | Jun 17, 2021 | Craft Marriage
Do you want to have a better marriage? Learn something new together. In the changing world we live in it’s really amazing how many new things there are to learn about. You have interests – your spouse has interests. There are some interests that you might...
by Brandon Blankenship | Jun 9, 2021 | Craft Marriage
Here is the number one gift I can give my wife. Be with her. Easy to say, hard to do. Not hard because she is hard to be with. Quite the contrary, there is no better day than one spent with her. I am the problem. I have a hard time just being with her...
by Brandon Blankenship | Jun 8, 2021 | Craft Marriage
An older gentleman walked up to me one day and asked, “when is the last time you called your wife by her name?” I couldn’t remember but I’m sure it had been a while. I call her lots of things – but not her name. The gentleman said,...
by Brandon Blankenship | Jun 1, 2021 | Craft Marriage, Craft Self
Do you want a better marriage? Then tell the truth about money. Ever hid money from your spouse? Ever bought something and just kept it to yourself? Got a credit card only you know about? Turns out you are not alone. According to Credit Karma, 17% of millennials...
by Brandon Blankenship | May 30, 2021 | Craft Marriage
Only one power is given authority over marriage; Not loneliness,Not depression,Not addiction,Not anxiety,Not self-injury,Not money,Not sex. Only death has authority over marriage. 1 The cause of the ending of every marriage that is not overcome by death…...
by Brandon Blankenship | May 27, 2021 | Craft Marriage, Craft Self
C.S. Lewis did not marry until after he was 50. Even then, his marriage was not consummated for over a year. As he writes about his marriage, he reveals that it was everything you might hope for. Lewis considered his wife an intellectual equal, enjoyed debating her....