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Category: Marriage

Getting married is like climbing on the back of a tandem bike

August 17, 2020 Tilly Dillehay Leave a comment

[Note: I recently shared a few words about marriage at a friend’s bridal shower. This is the text from that…

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Posted in: Marriage

What do men want?

October 26, 2018 Tilly Dillehay Leave a comment

Scenario #1 I’m in the Aldi parking lot, jogging from my van to the shopping carts with a quarter in…

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Posted in: Marriage, Women Filed under: complementarian, family, marriage, masculinity, men, parenting

Song of Solomon when the kids are small

September 3, 2018 Tilly Dillehay Leave a comment

Behold, you are beautiful, my love behold, you are beautiful! your eyes are glazed with sleep deprivation behind your veil…

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Posted in: Humor, Marriage, Parenting Filed under: coffee, marriage, parenting, satire, song of solomon, tired

When a woman stops doing what she does best

October 18, 2017 Tilly Dillehay Leave a comment

My husband comes in the door at the end of the day and we connect briefly with a nice peck…

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Posted in: Christian living, Marriage, Women

4 things I want my little sister to know about marriage and motherhood

March 21, 2017 Tilly Dillehay Leave a comment

I was on the phone with my younger sister last week, and she asked me, sort of wistfully, to describe…

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Posted in: Christian living, Marriage, Parenting, Women

4 Things We’ve Learned in 4 Years of Marriage

September 22, 2016 Tilly Dillehay Leave a comment

  It’s our anniversary today. Four years down. We’re working our way towards the really respectable numbers: Ten. Twenty. Fifty-five.…

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Posted in: Christian living, Marriage

Why you should pity your husband

September 7, 2016 Tilly Dillehay Leave a comment

One of the best books I’ve read in the past five years is Middlemarch, by George Elliot. My favorite thing…

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Posted in: Christian living, Marriage

My husband is bad at dating and good at being married

October 22, 2014 Tilly Dillehay Leave a comment

My husband and I celebrated two years of marriage last month. Two years. Justin, dressed as Martin Luther for reasons I…

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When Paul makes married people uncomfortable

March 13, 2014 Tilly Dillehay Leave a comment

by Justin Dillehay A few weeks ago I was sitting in a Sunday school class of about ten people, and…

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Posted in: Marriage, Theology, Uncategorized

I owe my wife to the internet

March 3, 2014 Justin Dillehay Leave a comment

Justin Dillehay I blame the internet for a lot of things, chiefly for shrinking my attention span and offering me…

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Posted in: Humor, Marriage, Theology, Uncategorized

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