I met my husband when we were in grade 7, but we didn’t start dating until we were 16 and have been together ever since. We have been married for almost 11 years and have three wonderful children. I remember our wedding day as if it were yesterday. It was one of the happiest days […]
I worked for my husband as a personal assistant for 4 months before an emergency business trip. We went to China and I fell in love with the “idea” of him not knowing he was falling in love with me at the same time. He proposed we spend our lives together on the plane back […]
I first met my husband Todd four years before we “really” met. I was travelling to the Okanagan for a friends wedding and had another good friend Cori driving with me – she needed a lift to the Okanagan for her family reunion. We drove up in my new blue sports car…with only two speeding […]
I met Katherine after college on a dating website. I never thought I would also find a woman who shared a common love of God. While my parents have not been very supportive and loving, thankfully our friends and church family have been. Overcoming discrimination caused us to have quite a bumpy road throughout this […]
By all accounts, Josh and I are an unlikely couple. We don’t share the same tastes, interests, or hobbies, and other than the fundamental practices of eating and working out there are very few things that we both enjoy! But perhaps because of – rather than in spite of – our very different preferences and […]
When I was a little girl & into my preteen years I (like many girls out there) dreamed of when & who I’d get married to. In my mind 20 was a good marrying age, little did I know that I’d have my prayers answered. Not quite seven months after graduating high school I’d meet […]
It was 19 years ago that both Bruce and I both ended up at a party that neither of us were supposed to be at…we had never crossed paths before, he was from Ontario and I am an island girl through and through. Looking back now, the Universe was working its magic. I was immediately […]
The first thing anyone is going to tell you as a newly married couple is that marriage is hard. They are wrong. Marriage isn’t hard, well, my marriage isn’t hard. My marriage isn’t hard because it is where I belong. I remember years ago, 16 to be exact, I was a bright eyed engaged gal working […]
From the very first moment he saw me, he fell in love. He remembered me from lives past. The first words he spoke to me were “You have my Favourite Face.” He caught my attention with his alluring eyes, but it was his hug that drew me in. When my heart edged in closer to […]
I fight with my husband. “We’re just on the same page” is a phrase we would always say when we started dating. I was 20 and Andrew 22. We were smitten. I loved him because how he made me feel. I felt special, adored, respected, spoiled, taken care of and encouraged. From an outsider things […]
Who’s hand do you want to be holding? It started with a cheesy move and a simple number on a piece of paper. Now here we are 10 years of marriage and three kids later. Older, greyer and definitely with bigger bags under our eyes. We didn’t know that our life would end up like […]
I was blessed to have Ed walk into my life in 1998, when we were both just kids really. He caught my eye and as I later found out, we were actually both *stalking* each other at the time. I would ‘stop by’ where he worked and he would do the same…pretending we were there […]
I met Ty almost 3 years ago on a night out with friends. Pretty quickly after we went on a few dates I knew he was someone special. He was very respectful of me and was always a gentleman. He genuinely cared and was interested in making my day to day life better right from […]
(Photo credit: Christy D. Swanberg Photography) I met Oscar over 5 years ago when I was living in La Paz, Bolivia volunteering with a Canadian non-profit organization. He was very shy at first so I asked him to help me improve my Spanish and it worked! We were inseparable for the remaining month of my […]
I’ve always heard that when you meet “the one” you’ll know it. It’s true. When I met my husband I knew that, even despite some pretty monumental hurdles, that he was the one I would spend the rest of my life with. Tom married me and my three children over 22 years ago and we’ve […]
I knew Ty was the guy I was going to marry when after just a couple of weeks of dating, he demonstrated just what kind of a guy he is. We lived in Laramie, Wyoming and had just had a crazy winter snow storm. My Trans Am was completely buried in a snow bank and […]
Seven years of marriage and still no way out. When we argue, we make up without trying to ‘WIN’ the argument so I can’t leave on that account. When I mess up I say I’m sorry and when she makes a mistake she is quick to apologize so I can’t hold that against her. When […]
When we were married we had no idea how quickly our selfishness would seek to assert itself. When this started to happen it was easy to think we might have chosen the wrong person, or that we should have stayed single. Our marriage put a huge mirror in front of each of us and then proceeded to reflect back […]
Marriage is a team effort. It’s you and your spouse together against this crazy world of pressures and changes. It’s not ‘you against me’, because the two of you are an ‘us’. What happens to one of you, happens to both of you. Remember that your spouse is your best friend and advocate, not your […]
Respect each other’s strengths and accept each other’s weaknesses. In the years that my husband and I have been married I have often had to remind myself of this idea. When I met my husband twenty-eight years ago, I immediately found myself attracted to this fun- loving, life-of-the-party person. I fell in love with his […]
