RELATIONSHIPS
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
How to love your woman better part halting the movement of the sun.
There is another verse in the Bible that says, “Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry” and since most of us have no real effect on stopping the sun from its [...]
How To Love Your Woman Better part ‘the verbal blessing’
in a nutshell if you refer to your woman (whether it be girlfriend or fiance or wife) as a 'ball and chain' or any similiar type negative reference you are probably in need of an [...]
how to Love your Woman better part small intentional sacrifices
i’m not a big fan of commercialised Christmas vibes and in particular Christmas carols – woergh – kinda hate them with a passion... my wife, TBV, is a big fan of Christmas and Christmas-related stuff [...]
How to Love Your Woman Better part the Defining of Love
Hollywood (and the greater media) pretty much says (intimates) that love is a feeling and that the expression of that feeling is sex, and also pretty much once the feeling goes love has gone and [...]
How to Love your Woman Better part arguing well part III
this part added by my wife, TBV: Step away from the emotion of the moment. I really struggle to think clearly, reason well, and see things from Brett’s point of view, when I am caught [...]
How to Love your Woman Better part arguing well, part II
I don’t think tbV and i are there yet, in fact i know we’re not. It’s definitely a work in progress and there is definitely progress because we are working on it. We argue a [...]
How to Love your Woman Better part arguing well. Part I (of III)
This one goes out to those of you who have girlfriends or wives (and if you’ve been paying attention and using your brains all along this series you will realise that most of what i [...]
the double tease
so i recently was on an orange river trip with a bunch of youth okes linked to a southern suburbs church youth group... two of the guys on the trip wore t-shirts (which i addressed [...]
my wife beat me
i do have lots of thorts on this topic and so hopefully i will blog some of them down here as well sometime but the beautiful Val has written a really brilliant blog on 'the [...]
one year marryversary
so yes it's lateish thurs nite or feels that way cos i am weirdly quite tired and tbV is upstairs working hard cos she has to get thesis changes to her people before she goes [...]
marriage to the right person – highly recommendable
so in exactly one week's time i will have been married to the beautiful Val for exactly one year - and what a year it's been! as i say often to people - 'marriage is [...]
1221 – if good be a verb
do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good i really struggle to ‘get’ how people have such issues with Jesus-following when the basics of what it is all about is gems like [...]