Know your personality styles, apply the knowledge and get along better with your spouse. What you don't know may be causing division!

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I was just sitting on my back deck and because we've had a few warm days, I can hear a variety of crocking frogs, deep voices, high voices, loud voices. They're looking for who... is speaking their love language!

You know, as people, we like to be talked to a certain way. Maybe it's straight forward. Maybe it's more important to be thoughtful and kind, but however it is, that we communicate, we expect the same from our spouse. If we're both blunt, we're good. But if you're blunt and it hurts your spouse’s feelings then you need to know it and change it.

I have several friends who are straight forward... AKA blunt. I know I can be the same with them. Normally that's not my style. I'm always strategic when I have to tell someone something I know they don't want to hear. I detest conflict.

People who get loud, blunt, and don't care if you like what they're saying are a part of the group of D personalities that are leaders, principles, and business owners. These people will speak up ...

My husband and I are able to laugh at many a situation! 

We've kept that romantic love rolling along through the years by having fun together, letting go of the small irritations, encouraging one another and simply treating each other in such a way that... WE LIKE EACH OTHER!

No, we are not just alike.  We don't have to be.  In fact, the things that make us unique are what keeps us on the up and up.  We were just talking yesterday about how he's a walking encyclopedia, I know... you may not recognize that... let's say.... he's my google.  An Encyclopedia is a book that contained every bit of info about people, politics, history... and such... so that you could LOOK UP what you needed for your school report as a kid.

The are 4 basic personality styles and my husband and I have different combinations of those four styles.  They are called D-I-S-C... each of the letters stands for a particular personality style.

Neither of us has very much of the D - This style is very straight fo...

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Red, White & Blue 1976

I remember that last day of 9th grade at Buena Part High school in California. My dad's work, JC Penny's was moving us to Georgia. There were lots of tears, I missed the bus, and I thought I would die. My family spent 6 weeks in a motel room, before we found a home in Georgia, and I didn’t know a single person. We made the best of it, swimming as much as we could in the hotel pool.

The new school year soon came and still I knew not one person. It was scary, but as I got off the school bus, a girl with a funny accent began to enthusiastically chatter, “I’m new, are you new, my name’s Debbie”. Debbie was from Jersey, and her chatter gave me comfort, I had a new friend, and we met for lunch. Maybe I would make it in this new place.

At my old school I was involved in a Modern Dance Group of 50 girls. In Georgia, I joined the chorus, where I quickly became involved with a whole new set of friends and activities of which I quickly began to enjoy.

The next year, I m...

The Extraordinary Marriage exemplified! 

Jimmy Carter passed on today at the ripe old age of 100! Could his long life be evidence that selflessness, success, and a loving marriage give life, passion, and purpose?

How can a couple keep the love alive, living in the public eye? By keeping their focus on God first and then one another. We live in a world that’s diminished the importance of marriage and family. Crushed and discarded the Christian values of truth & honesty, selfless love, and the determination to raise honest, caring, loving children… who know and live the absolutes of Right & Wrong. The lines are blurred, but not for the Carters.

Every week on “The Extraordinary Marriage Podcast”, I share ways that couples can find their way back to the love they once knew, the importance of realizing its missing, and how they can invest their time, energy, and resources in getting it back… before it’s gone for good. This can be done through self-awareness, acknowledging the hurts of yo...

In the middle of trouble you begin to lose hope.  This is where change begins.