Posts in Marriage
Caution…Control Freak Ahead!

Let me start with a disclaimer. No, I am not talking about you…nor your boss! No, your wife didn’t call and suggest that you might need to read this. No, I don’t consider myself a control freak…except maybe in things that really matter to me…things like the garden and the lawn.

We probably fall into two different categories, the control freaks and those who have to deal with the control freaks…at least that was my opinion until I read the book, “THE CONTROL FREAK …COPING WITH THOSE AROUND YOU. TAMING THE ONE WITHIN.” By Les Parrott III, PHD.  Wow, that last part about taming the one within kind of hurts.

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Marriage, ParentingLarry Hendren
Where is Your Finish Line?

I was sitting at a table at ONYX Coffee Lab in Springdale with my mentor early one morning in April last year. The focus of our conversation was how to better invest in our family. We had been meeting once a month for the last four months. I had his trust and he had mine. There was a moment where the conversation paused and he asked a question that I will never forget, “Nick, where is your finish line?”

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Lasting Love

When was the last time you heard someone say to you, “I love you?”  Some may have opportunity to hear it every day.  Others may go weeks or longer before hearing these words.  Each of us desire to be loved... 

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