Relationship with Spouse
Your spouse’s win deserves a celebration before it gets a debrief, and Jesus shows the order in Luke 15. When a project closes at work, the reflex is to move straight to what went well and what comes next. If you carry that reflex home on the night your spouse shares good news, that reflex…
Home can be the one room where a leader stops looking capable, because Christ already knows every weakness and still welcomes frank speech. You have spent ten hours being the person with the answers. Now the car is in the driveway, the porch light is on, and one quiet question waits before you reach the…
A busy season is when a marriage most needs to be fed, not a time it can be put on hold. You are three days from quarter close, the dashboard is red in two regions, and your spouse’s text, “Dinner Thursday?”, lights up your phone between calls. Nothing about the text is unreasonable; it just…
The way your spouse is wired differently from you is not a problem to manage; it is a gift God placed on purpose. You may know the differences well, how your spouse decides, recovers from a hard day, or spends a free Saturday, and have settled into working around them. Have you ever considered that…
It’s easy to let the thing your spouse does every single day — the lunch packed, the call made, the lawn mowed — stopped registering as effort and allow it to become an everyday, unnoticed fact of life. C.H.E.W. with Me New here? What is CHEW? — a 30-second practice that grows into a day woven with…
Your spouse could probably draw a floor plan of your kitchen from memory. They may not be able to name a single person you sit across from in meetings all day. Most executives don’t mean to keep their work life with their spouse — but they’ve built a wall around it and never noticed.. C.H.E.W.…
You walked in the door tonight already running the mental math — what’s left on the list, who still needs a decision from you, what didn’t get closed out today. Your spouse said something to you within the first ninety seconds, and some part of you filed it the way you file everything else: as…
Many leaders could recite their Tuesday one-on-ones from memory — who’s on the calendar, what carried over from last week, which follow-up you still owe someone. Ask the same leader when they last had a real, structured conversation with their spouse about how the week actually went, and the answer gets vague fast. Not because…
You both stopped talking about it. That’s not the same thing as both of you agreeing it’s over. Somewhere on the calendar sits the unmarked anniversary of a conflict that ended in exhaustion rather than resolution — one of you went quiet first, the other followed, and life simply moved on around the unfinished business.…
You’ll pray out loud in front of a boardroom without blinking — over a meal at a company retreat, at the top of a difficult meeting, in front of clients who half-expect it and half don’t. Praying out loud with your own spouse, just the two of you, in your own bedroom with the lights…