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Marriage Partnership, Summer 1998
Romance on a
Shoestring
My husband and I, with our two kids, recently made the major transition to
life on one income. How do couples keep the spark alive, like the Honeymooners
profiled in your Spring 1998 issue, on a shoestring
budget? I'd like to know how other readers have simplified their lifestyle
while keeping their marriages growing.
Liz Strongman
Seattle, Washington
We're interested, too. Send your suggestions to the address below.
Watch for answers to Liz's question in a future issue. —Ed.
Oh,
Mercy!
In "Aphrodisiacs & Old Lace"
[Spring '98], Betty Smartt Carter points out how many
temptations there are for the eyes of men. After having five children, I
don't think of myself in sexy lingerie as an enjoyable sight. But when my
husband says, "Oh, mercy!" in that way he does, I feel as young and in love
as when we started out.
Becky Brownlee
Syracuse, New York
Truth Is Better for
Intimacy
I disagree with Jay Kesler's advice to the husband who "nearly cheated"
[Q&A, Spring '98].
It isn't fair for this wife to believe that everything is okay. If this couple
deal with the situation honestly, they can increase their level of intimacy
and avoid future affairs.
Rebecca Baudouin
Warrenville, Illinois
Two-Way
Bias?
The article "Basic Training"
[Spring '98] by Frederica Mathewes-Green was slanted
to promote ACME [the Association for Couples in Marriage
Enrichment]. There is no single type of conference that will fit every marriage's
needs. My husband and I attended a FamilyLife conference and were richly
blessed by it.
Theresa McPherson
Grand Junction, Colorado
Mathewes-Green's analysis comes across
as unfairly biased against ACME. My wife and I have led many
ACME seminars in which the value of a strong, shared religious
conviction as an essential ingredient to a marriage's success was always
stressed. The need for joint efforts to enrich marriages is too great for
there to be any room for articles like this one.
Glen Hambleton
Fridley, Minnesota
Stereotypes and
Sexism
I appreciated Randy Frame's "What Planet Is
John Gray On?" [Spring '98]. Some endeavors to
label characteristics, values, behaviors and roles as gender-specific are
damaging to the creativity God intended for all believers.
Dr. Karen Iseminger
University of Indianapolis
Buying Out the
Bookstores
Thanks for "Best Books for a Better Marriage"
[Spring '98]. It's nearly impossible to wade through
the wide variety of Christian marriage books. Now I can just use your list.
An Heimann
Okemos, Michigan
Calling All
Dreamers
| If you and your spouse
have turned a shared dream into reality, we want to know. Tell us about it
in about 300 words and provide an address and phone number where you can
be reached. Your story could inspire and challenge other
readers.
e-mail:
mp@marriagepartnership.com
fax: 630-260-0114
write:
Married Dreamers
Marriage Partnership
465 Gundersen Drive
Carol Stream, IL 60188 |
Copyright © 1998 by the author or Christianity Today International/Marriage
Partnership magazine. For reprint information call 630-260-6200 or e-mail
mp@marriagepartnership.com.
Summer 1998, Vol. 15, No. 2, Page 6
Marriage Partnership
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