Posts on Young Marriage

What Our Wedding Vows Really Meant

Today marks three years with the incredible man I get to call my husband. It hasn’t been a particular easy three years, but I’m so thankful to have spent them with him. So today I dedicate this blog post to Kyle . . . Dear Kyle, I look back at pictures, at our starry-eyed 16-year-old…

5 Gospel-Centered Books for Wives

There are a lot of marriage books out there—it can be overwhelming trying to decide which ones are worth your money. I love reading, so I’ve read quite a few of them. Since I often get asked which ones are my favorites, I decided to put together a list of my top five. These have been…

Wives: Stop Judging, Start Listening

“A young wife giving marriage advice is like a pregnant woman giving parenting advice.” I’ve been seeing this one floating around on Pinterest, and wow, how’s that for discouragement? (And if we’re going to get technical, this comparison honestly doesn’t even correlate. An engaged woman giving marriage advice would be like a pregnant woman giving…

Advice for Soon-to-be Wives

I often tell people that even if I got paid, I wouldn’t relive the year my husband and I were engaged. We dealt with everything from family feuds, to jobs quit, and beyond. I probably cried more in that year than the rest of my life put together. Everyone talked about what a beautiful time…

Give Him Grace

“You what?!” “I lost it…” “How could you lose your health insurance card? It’s kind of important. Maybe if you carried a real wallet instead of keeping two cards in your phone case!” And so it began . . . a pointless argument about why he lost his insurance card. In the moment, I just…

Dancing in the Minefields

I remember reading books on the topic of dating in high school. They said “don’t date, you have absolutely no chance of marrying who you date in high school—and even if you do, it won’t turn out well.” I always knew Kyle was different than the boys I read about in those books. We always knew…