Taking the High Road ~ Blended Family Ministry

Fellow step-parenting friend Gayla Grace asked this question on her Twitter feed this morning:

I can't tell you how many times during the first five years of my marriage to Vic I wanted to take the easy road. I wanted to all-out quit. I wanted to walk away and not look back on the anger, frustration, accusations, and silent rebellion I faced as a step-mom.

Marriage Works ~ Never Go To Bed Angry

"Oh, forget it. You couldn't care less."

I'd interrupted my husband, and this was his reply. In all honesty, on occasion I could care less about what he's saying. Because I'm truly not interested in the topic (like gun stuff - I want to know how to shoot one accurately, not how to trick it out--that's his job), and I try not to intrude on his time with topics I know he could care less about (like how to scrapbook). However, I loved our current topic of conversation. Writing.

How many times a day/week/month/year do you face similar situations in your own marriage? Ones where you're misunderstood, where your spouse appears less than interested in your concerns, where

5 Signs of Isolation in Your Marriage

Proverbs 18:1 says, “A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment.”

There are two keys to this verse: He seeks his own desire. He doesn’t care if it’s wrong.
Isolate: quarantine; to separate from another substance to obtain pure or in a free state; insulate (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

Isolation will be a marriage killer, if a husband or a wife won’t do something about it. When we marry, two people become one. It’s difficult to walk in that unity if one spouse has isolated themselves from the