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Romance, after 15 years
“Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn’t be its precondition.” -Alain de Batton // “Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, are not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.” -Barbara Kingsolver // I suppose one of the lovely realities about marrying young is that Ben and I…
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Family Routines We Are Loving // March 2021
`Do you feel like we are in the eye of hurricane, or is that just me? For now, at least here in South Africa, we have more freedom than we’ve had for some time, to see people, to meet as a church, to hold classes in person, to go to the beach or other parks.…
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Reflections On A Decade+ of Marriage
“To open myself up to love feels like jumping off a cliff… without any sense of where I’ll land.” I expressed this early on in my relationship with Ben, in those blissful, naive days where looking deeply into his eyes made me blush and our hands were glued together, as we were glued together. I’d…
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Let Them See
A couple of weeks ago, Ben and I got into it – right as I was dishing dinner onto plates. It was that time of day where everyone is a bit tired, emotions run high, my tank is empty, and there’s still quite a bit of work to be done. I can’t even remember now…
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