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Grow Everyday

Relationships, personal growth, marriage prep, and notices in everyday life.

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What to Want

Most of us assume we know what is best for us because we've been with ourselves our whole lives. We've become acquainted with what moves us and makes us tick. Nobody is in our skin or minds but us. We should know best, right?

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Anything Worth Having

What is it in your life that’s calling you to a pursuit you’d rather avoid? Where in your life do you know you need to make an uncomfortable change, but you’d rather settle for subpar because your addiction to comfort and familiarity has run rampant in your life?

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Shunning Shame

So much of our frustration associated with things not going as planned or things not happening when we think they should, stems out of a negligence to identify the crucial step before the “doing” and the “having”.

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Starters and Tune-Ups

Sometimes life takes us by surprise and we suddenly find ourselves in a position or place, and not sure how we got there. Sometimes this is good, but most of the time, it’s bad news--especially in relationships.

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Your Time is Now

Maybe you can relate … and maybe you can’t, but what doesn’t change is that no matter what season of life you’re in, whether you are married or you desire to be married someday, every decision you make is going to have an impact of some sort on your husband.

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Vision Correction

Ever hear a woman say the man they married is nothing like the kind of men they were used to dating? The more I talk to women about their marriage stories, the more common this attribute has become.

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Time is Ticking

An article published by The Huffington Post claims that 30% of nearly 1000 divorced women surveyed, admitted to knowing they were marrying the wrong man but did so anyway. How shocking is that?

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Standard of Love

Contrary to what people may say, love is not subject to the interpretation of individuals. We don’t have to guess or wonder, “Is this love?” There is a standard.

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Wedding Dreams

I haven’t done the research, but it seems to me, the more a couple spends on a wedding, the less likely they are to have a joyful marriage that lasts.

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Ready for Mr. Right

Having a choice encounter with your Mr. Right is about more than just being in the right place at the right time. How that encounter will ultimately end is going to weigh heavily on

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Where are All the Good Men?

I was fully aware that there was not an abundance of handsome, responsible, independent, and spiritually sound men of virtue just sitting around waiting for me to accept his

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Self-improvement or Self-delusion?

Have you ever had a girlfriend that became a different person every time she was in a new relationship? With the last boyfriend, she was into deep-sea diving, but with this new guy, she’s pouring her energies into knowing every detail of the upcoming Van Gogh exhibit and all the pieces to be on

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Man of Your Dreams

Before we get married, most of us can describe in great detail what kind of man we’d like to wed. Through experience or example, we imagine that our husbands will be everything we’ve ever dreamed them to be. Sure, he won’t be perfect, but he’ll be pretty close. In fact, if you are like I was, your ideal

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Lone Dating

Whenever the subject of dating comes up, I am reminded of the significant role God wants to have in how we choose who to date, who to invest in, and ultimately who we decide to marry.

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The Decoy

When I was 26 years old, I was in love with a man that I was sure I was going to marry someday. My mind was made up and I, mentally, was no longer open to the idea of spending the rest of my life with anyone else. He and I had a connection that I thought was destiny and my complete

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Welcome to Grow Everyday, a blog from Marriage PLANS

Welcome to Marriage PLANS’ blog, Grow Everyday! The main focus of this blog is to help women have better relationships which in turn will enrich their lives. It will cover marriage preparation, living single, relationship maintenance, personal development, and an occasional random notice from

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