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Singleness – not spoken about enough but for many people a struggle or challenge and for others something to celebrate

i kissed dating: the parts – some thoughts about dating

40 Tips to help you improve your Marriage – some big, some small and all just ideas that may or may not work for you

How to save a marriage [before you need to] – i asked some married friends to share some ideas on what makes marriage work…

How to love your husband/wife better – the parts – a series looking at some different ways you can love your person well

Taboo Topics: Singleness – meet Alexa O S Russell aka ‘Is there space for Bridget Jones at church?’

By |April 12th, 2013|Categories: love and chocolate, relationships, shtupidt people, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Lex: Being single in a world and a community where relationships are celebrated and held up in high regard can be incredibly difficult…particularly when your single status is not a conscious choice, but rather a [...]

Pearls before Tongue

By |April 1st, 2013|Categories: and other animals., humour'ish, relationships|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

oh, what a classic, definitely one of the best Pearls Before Swine strips yet - on International Liars Day, Stephan Pastis comes up with an absolute goodie... [For another great Pearls before Swine strip involving [...]

on why rape [and violence to women in general] HAS to be taken seriously, part 3: conversation with Claudine

By |March 28th, 2013|Categories: challenging thorts, change the world, relationships, thorts of other people|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

[this is where this series started if you are needing to catchup to part i] so part two of this focus on rape/violence towards women related to this interaction i had with a certain hashtag [...]

One way to love your spouse better – Brett Fish [Love them in the best way they receive it]

By |March 17th, 2013|Categories: activities, challenging thorts, love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, the beautiful Val (tbV)|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

one story tbV [the beautiful Val] enjoys telling is how after a month of us dating she had a bedside drawer full of chocolate... why is this significant? well, i spent a lot of time [...]

One way to love your spouse better – Sheralyn Cloete [Assume, but well]

By |March 9th, 2013|Categories: love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, thorts of other people|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

my friend Sheralyn has a very different [and absolutely amazing!] take on one way to love your spouse better - she has been married to Sam for four years now and they have a little [...]

One way to love your spouse better – Robert Martin [Sacrificing Self]

By |March 8th, 2013|Categories: God stuff, inspire-ations, love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, thorts of other people|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Robert is a friend that tbV and i met once in Americaland at a protest of sorts and have since become strong online friends and co-appreciators of Pearls Before Swine and other shared forms of [...]

One way to love your spouse better – Brett Fish: be on the same continent

By |March 7th, 2013|Categories: love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, the beautiful Val (tbV)|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Note, this is remarkably different from "be incontinent" so try not to get confused. [in fact to be honest one of the definitions listed was "Not restrained; uncontrolled" and i am going to be speaking [...]

One way to love your spouse better – Richard Erasmus [listening better]

By |March 3rd, 2013|Categories: change the world, God stuff, marriage, relationships, thorts of other people|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

my friend, Rich Erasmus, has been married for seventeen years to his lovely wife Cindy, and has some nuggets of wisdom to share with us in the area of one way you can love your [...]

Taboo Topics: Singleness – meet Kate Hurley [aka The Sexy Celibate]

By |March 2nd, 2013|Categories: challenging thorts, love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, shtupidt people, thorts of other people|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

My friend Jess is a beautiful, single blonde girl who has been a missionary in Italy for 10 years and is the same age as me. One day, an Italian woman, let’s call her Mamma [...]

One way to love your spouse better – Dalene Reyburn [the next right thing]

By |March 1st, 2013|Categories: change the world, love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, thorts of other people|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

my friend Dalene, who is an incredible bloggist, has been married for 8 and a half years and this is a pearl of wisdom she has to share with us in terms of one way [...]

a response to a nonny miss? part i: the good

By |January 28th, 2013|Categories: challenging thorts, God stuff, relationships, thorts of other people|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

'test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil.' [1 Thessalonians 5.21-22] this is one of my favourite verses in the Bible - to be faithful to it, the verse [...]

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