Entries Tagged as 'Relationships'

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

How she works

One point of fric­tion between myself and Sarah is that we have a really, really hard time com­mu­ni­cat­ing. I mean, it doesn’t help that women are elab­o­rate enig­mas, and as men we are Aston­ish­ingly Dense. Gen­tle­men, tell me if you’ve ever heard the fol­low­ing from your ladies:
You just don’t get me.
I wanted you to lis­ten and […]

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Dating 101, continued

I’m con­tin­u­ing an entry detail­ing new (and always-humbling) insights into myself, life, God, and affec­tion as Sarah and I con­tinue our dat­ing rela­tion­ship.
On friend­ship and fig­ur­ing each other out
What Sarah’s help­ing me real­ize is that any roman­tic rela­tion­ship must be, at its foun­da­tion, a great friend­ship. At the begin­ning we both assumed we were fan­tas­tic friends, which […]

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Dating 101

I’m going to be can­did and share with you some dat­ing lessons I’ve learned (with Sarah’s per­mis­sion!). My buddy Jeff was right when he told me, “Dating’s a good way to learn how much you need grace.” And I need boat­loads of it. Here we goooo…
Tran­si­tion­ing from self-sufficiency to depen­dency
From very early on in my life, […]

Friday, April 25th, 2008

In transitions I

I’ve been mov­ing in-to & in-between iden­ti­ties lately.
As a boyfriend, I’m newly chal­lenged by the call to care for and serve some­body. And I know I haven’t writ­ten much about Sarah and my rela­tion­ship, but I’ll say that every day I learn a lit­tle bit more about how God loves. I’m reminded what a good […]