Day 10: There Is Hope and Healing
This is Day 10 of a 10 day No More Perfect Marriages series chronicling our journey from infidelity to restoration. You can click here and find all of the posts in this series. Jill says: Mark returned home two months after Easter. We continued counseling for another...Day 9: The Marriage Fade That Begins With Avoiding Emotion
This is Day 9 of a 10 day No More Perfect Marriages series chronicling our journey from infidelity to restoration. You can click here and find all of the posts in this series. Mark says: When sharing my story with others, I have often said that I identify with Peter...Day 8: The Marriage Fade That Begins With Disagreement
This is Day 8 of a 10 day No More Perfect Marriages series chronicling our journey from infidelity to restoration. You can click here and find all of the posts in this series. Jill says: One night shortly after Mark left, our daughter Anne called me and said she’d...Day 7: The Marriage Fade that Begins With Not Accepting
This is Day 7 of a 10 day No More Perfect Marriages series chronicling our journey from infidelity to restoration. You can click here and find all of the posts in this series. Today we’re offering the perspective of one of our children. Our oldest daughter, Anne, will...Day 6: The Marriage Fade the Starts with Naïveté
This is Day 6 of a 10 day series. You can find the other days here. Mark says: In all areas of my life: in ministry, in my job, with God, and in my marriage, I didn’t feel like I was “enough.” It felt like I was falling short in every relationship I had. The only...Day 5: The Marriage Fade that Starts w/ Minimizing
This is Day 5 of a 10 day series. You can find the other days here. Jill says: I sat across from my emotionally closed off husband in the marriage counselors office. He indicated that he knew the affair was wrong, but he did not want to stop it. Mark says: I had shut...Day 4: The Marriage Fade that Starts w/ Defensiveness
This is Day 4 of a 10 day series. You can find the other days here. Mark says: Yesterday we talked about pursuing honest communication. One of the biggest blocks to honest conversations are defensive responses. Defensive responses are self-justifying and...Day 3: Unrealistic Expectations in Marriage
This is Day 3 of a 10 day series. You can find the entire series here. Mark says: I didn’t realize coming into marriage how much idealism and unrealistic expectation drove my everyday thinking and perspective. I’ve always struggled wanting our relationship, our...No More Perfect Marriages Day 2: It’s a Slow Fade
Thanks so much for joining us! This is Day 2 of an 10 day blog series. You can find the entire series here. Mark says: After our trip to Florida, I began talking regularly with an old girlfriend on Facebook. She had gone through a divorce and we had briefly...No More Perfect Marriages–A 10 Day Blog Series
Jill says: Some of you have been hanging around here for a long time and you may remember when I shared about Mark leaving 3 years ago and then several months later about him coming home. Some of you are newer friends and aren’t aware that my marriage has been through...
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