by Elisabeth | May 16, 2017 | emotions, parenting, remarriage
When you are the mother in a blended family, you feel pulled in ways you didn’t when it was you and the original husband/dad and the original children. You all did your thing. You and your husband tag-team’d sports events and appointments (or maybe you did them on...
by Elisabeth | Apr 18, 2017 | abuse, dating, difficult marriage, divorce, pain, remarriage, wholeness
I received an email that said, basically, I married a man I shouldn’t have married. There were red flags and I married him out of my loneliness. And now it’s really bad and I don’t know what to do. First of all, let me say, I am so very sorry. I am sorry that you are...
by Elisabeth | Mar 22, 2017 | dating, emotions, faith, heart, remarriage, wholeness
Before my first marriage, I had four years of dating and fighting and breaking up and getting back together and doubts upon doubts and a handful of people telling me we maybe shouldn’t be together. I was probably about 90% sure that I was willingly walking into a hard...
by Elisabeth | Mar 8, 2017 | emotions, heart, remarriage, wholeness
I don’t watch a ton of TV but I have a new show this year, This is Us. And there was one scene between two of the main characters, a married couple with two kids, that struck me so poignantly. Randall and Beth were discussing their crazy schedule and how one of their...
by Elisabeth | Feb 8, 2017 | faith, remarriage
My husband resigned from his job, after almost two years of attempting to secure a transfer, after over twenty months of the two of us living together only part-time as husband and wife. Truth be told, we felt like friends with benefits at times. Like one of those...
by Elisabeth | Feb 1, 2017 | faith, pain, remarriage, wholeness
In my life right now, there are a handful of scenarios that are leaving me hanging. I am the poster child for limbo living these days. Richard and I have been married for over a year-and-a-half, and we have yet to live together full-time. To say it’s been lonely and...
