by JillSavage | May 22, 2017 | Marriage
Jill: Summer is just around the corner and it’s likely our routines will experience some changes as we head from one season to another. Mark: Longer days in the summer allow for different ways of connecting as a couple. Jill and I enjoy sitting on the porch in...
by JillSavage | May 18, 2017 | Faith
One of the hardest parts of having cancer is making new friends only to lose way too many of them in death. I don’t believe I’ve ever grieved the loss of so many friends as I have the past three years. It happened again two weeks ago when my friend Angela passed away....
by JillSavage | May 16, 2017 | Marriage
Today is Day 2 of our two-day Focus on the Family No More Perfect Marriages interviews. You can listen to Day 1 here. If you’re a Focus on the Family listener who has dropped by for the first time…welcome! We’d love to meet you…please take a...
by JillSavage | May 15, 2017 | Marriage
Join the No More Perfect Date Night Community today! Find out more info at www.NoMorePerfectDateNight.com! Spring Registration is closed but we’re opening it just for Family Life, Heidi St. John podcast, and Focus on the Family listeners until Friday, May 19,...
by JillSavage | May 15, 2017 | Marriage
Jill: I’m most impatient when I’m overscheduled. Mark: I tend to take things personally when I am tired. Jill: My tone of voice has exasperation in it most often when I’m running late. Mark: I lack the ability to listen well when I’m trying to do too much. Jill: Just...
by JillSavage | May 10, 2017 | Living With Less
Several years ago Mark and I wrote Living With Less So Your Family Has More. The book is about living with less stress, less activities, and less money than what is culturally acceptable. It’s actually about standing up to adult peer pressure and doing what is...
by JillSavage | May 8, 2017 | Marriage
Mark: Jill was telling me about something that we needed to do this weekend. I was busy answering an email on my phone and I absentmindedly said a few “Uh huh’s” to feign interest in what she was saying. When she said, “Mark, did you hear me?” I had to admit that I...
by JillSavage | May 1, 2017 | Marriage
Jill: Last weekend at the Hearts at Home conference, I spent some time with a woman whose marriage was at seven years of healing from her infidelity. There is still so much pain in their marriage, though, and it seems they are stuck. The more we talked the more I...
by JillSavage | Apr 24, 2017 | Marriage
Last week we opened up our new No More Perfect Date Night Community and then we spent this past weekend with about 2700 women at the Illinois Hearts at Home conference. It was a full week and a great weekend but it will take us both about a week to recover!...
by JillSavage | Apr 19, 2017 | Moms
Today’s post is from my friend Patty Maier who was one of four writers who wrote the Hearts at Home Pantagraph newspaper column for many years. She and her family live in Forrest, Illinois where many different organizations benefit from her time and talents. By...
