Marriage links for the week
I mentioned in Thursday's post how Doug McHone (Coffee Swirls) praised his wife on his blog. If you didn't read his post then, read it now.
Over at Spare Change, Bryan confesses to some personal deficiencies in how he deals with his wife sometimes. It is a penetrating, intimate look at how he sometimes fails and has to humble himself in order to restore himself and his marriage. He brings to this post the sort of insight we should all aspire to.
"Do soulmates exist? Why or why not?" That's the entirety of Joshua Claybourn's post from Tuesday. The comments are worth reading, though I think soulmate needs to be defined in the question if the debate is to have any validity. I define soul mate in terms of what I have experienced, so in my mind they absolutely exist. In fact I once wrote in this very space:
A soul mate…is someone completely different from you. When you meet her, you may take an immediate liking to her or you may not. But eventually, you grow into each other so that the two of you are inextricably bound to one another. Your souls, in effect, mate.…Soul mates make each other better than either of them could be on their own. …if you can't find a soul mate, it may be because you're searching for a perfect match of personalities or settling for a safe harbor friend rather than recognizing the radical intimacy that's possible when two different souls mate.
Jollyblogger has some good news about marriage from bad statistics.
Newsweek's cover story this week was titled The Secret Lives of Wives, detailing how modern women have more opportunity and inclination to cheat on their husbands than they have in the past. Vincent at World Magazine Blog takes Newsweek to task for their faulty assumptions and misguided conclusions. Ben, of Marriages Restored, has some even stronger things to say about the story's failure to examine the tragedy and trauma caused by affairs and, in another post, its bewildering interpretation of the movie Unfaithful.
