Most relationship problems aren't about toothpaste or love languages. They're about someone who won't let the person they chose change them. I married at 20, before I'd set, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Autonomy Is a Lie
Tag: Marriage
The Step in Front of You
Brushed off at nineteen, stuck in a smoke-filled office, and a cancer diagnosis that came back. What got me through all three was the same thing: the step in front of me.
Only
A younger man at Bible study said "my current wife." Before I could stop myself, I corrected him. On being one of the old guys at the table.
Even Further Down the Road
I wrote these lines at twenty years down the road and posted them again at twenty-four. Here they are at twenty-eight, after a normal Saturday that was anything but.
Straw Man
I've lost arguments I was never in, with my wife and, with AI helping me build the case, at work. What a straw man costs and what I do instead.
