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Date Night Under the Influence of Marriage

By Brian Murray and Christine Hammond Sitting on the couch at home on a Friday night watching television when a jewelry commercial offering a Valentine’s Day special appears. Her.   I bet that even with this commercial he still will “forget” about Valentine’s Day.   I should know better than to expect anything from him because I just wind up getting my feelings hurt and disappointed.   Look at him, he’s not even making any signs that this ad is even on.   Boy do I love that necklace, not that he would get it for me.   Maybe I just have to buy it for myself.   “Would you like more chips dear?” Him.   Wow here we go again, another season of having to put up with these manipulators.   “Can you believe these people, every year they play on emotional heart strings.   What a crock!” Her .   I knew it.   He’s so complete devoid of any emotion that it just tears me apart.   It’s not really about emotiona...

Family of Five with Five Different Love Languages

  By Chris Hammond, IMH, MS “ Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love does n't want what it doesn't have. Love doesn't strut, doesn't have a swelled head, doesn't force itself on others, isn't always ‘me first,’ d oesn't fly off the hand le, d oesn't kee p score of the sins of others, d oe sn't revel when others grovel, t akes pleas ure in the flowering of truth, puts up with anything, trusts God always, always looks for the best, never looks back, but keeps going to the end,” 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, The Message . Whoever said it is easy to show love is dead wrong.   While you may feel loved when someone spends time with you another person doesn’t feel loved unless you tell them.   It is easy for you to show love in your love language because it comes so naturally but trying to show love in another person’s love language and you are likely to feel fake.   Gary Chapman in his book, “The Five Love Languages” outl...