Category: The virtuous marriage
The Virtuous Marriage series: lessons on virtues like order, moderation, and resolution, applied to married life.
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Simple Family: The Lost Art Of Play
At the risk of severely stepping on your toes, many people have simply lost the art of play. Gone are the days of tag, chase, tackle the man with the…
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Bye Bye Television Update
For the month of August my family has done away with our TV. We have not turned it on once – except for the DVD my wife and I watched…
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To Bring 5% More Happiness To My Relationships…
There have been many times when I’ve posed a question for you the loyal reader to respond to, this time I’m changing it up a bit. This is still an…
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Do You Want Your Marriage To Survive Or Thrive?
Do you believe that happiness is attainable? Do you also believe that happiness is attainable in your current relationship? After you answer these questions, your response might be – How?…
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Simple Marriage RSS Feed And Email Fixed
Last week I installed a new feature, Disqus, to handle the comments from here on out at Simple Marriage. It seems the installation of this feature broke the feed (which…
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How Do You Spend Your Time Compared To The National Average?
My family is currently on day 5 with our no TV during the month of August experiment. Thus far, it’s freed up a great deal of time for us to…
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The Art Of Doing Nothing
Sure, we all know how to do nothing. We all know how to lay around and waste time. But many of us are too busy to do it much, and…
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Living From Your Heart
Hayden, from Through The Illusion, posted this video earlier in the week as another definition of awesome. Many people agreed – as of 10 days after uploading this to YouTube…
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Ask The Readers: How Do You Connect With Family And Friends?
The world we live in offers some unique opportunities as well as challenges. You can now know, almost instantly, about anything major going on in the world. You can board…
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Goals And Dreams Are Means, Not Just Ends
For the past couple of weeks my wife and I have been discussing our future plans and dreams. We have this discussion at least once a year, although this time…
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A Simple Marriage Experiment: Bye, Bye Television
“I think we watch too much TV” stated my wife. “Er, uh, what?” As I hit pause on the Tivo. “I’m sorry, what did you say?” “Nothing” she replied. This…
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A Guide to Escaping Materialism and Finding Happiness
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post taken from Leo of Zen Habits. Money can’t buy you love. It can’t buy you happiness either. Today’s materialistic world often urges us…