Category Archives: Relationship Stories

This is where my passion has reached beyond my professional writing to include writing more personal articles about how transitions in life can affect relationships with family, friends, work, and even spiritual relationships.

• Validation Through Addiction

  Posted on August 27, 2012 by admin in Relationship Stories.

  “I don’t get you. Where are you coming up with this? All of a sudden you’re Miss Perfect and I’m just a loser, a piece of crap!” and the argument begins again. This is not the first time Steve and I have had this discussion. Steve just never seems to remember because he’s either drunk [...]

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• They’ll Always Need Mommy

  Posted on August 27, 2012 by admin in Relationship Stories.

  I remember when my children were just babies, I would think to myself, “When they grow up and have babies of their own, it will be so nice to not have to worry about them anymore.” I actually believed a day would come when I would no longer get tearful calls from my little ones [...]

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• The Discipline of Solitude

  Posted on August 27, 2012 by admin in Devotionals, Relationship Stories.

  This may be hard to believe, especially if you know anything about me and how introverted I am, but it wasn’t until just recently that I heard about this whole idea of practicing solitude as an actual discipline, a spiritual discipline at that, a way to get closer to God. Of course, I’m familiar with [...]

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• Learning to Let Go

  Posted on August 26, 2012 by admin in Devotionals, Relationship Stories.

  I just got back from spending a weekend with a bunch of fellow aspiring Christian communicators and some already highly-respected ones. It was a wonderful, once-in-a-lifetime experience I will never forget. I learned so much about communication in general, our role as God’s advocates here on earth, and my role as an individual. One of [...]

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• Embrace Your Introversion

  Posted on August 26, 2012 by admin in Relationship Stories.

  I was a painfully shy child growing up. This was not a particularly good quality since my father was a very ambitious young man and moved us to five different cities in four states between the time I entered Kindergarten and the time I graduated from high school. Making new friends was difficult at best. [...]

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• Transitions

  Posted on November 21, 2011 by admin in Relationship Stories.

  Today I’m beginning what I guess you would call a period of transition. I’m leaving Lansing, Michigan where I’ve lived for the last thirty years to embark on a new life in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for the next who knows how many years. But, between my old life in Michigan and my new life [...]

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