Marriage

by H. Wallace Goddard Perhaps the most pernicious sins are those that make us feel virtuous. Perhaps the most pernicious sins are those that make us feel virtuous while we devastate our …

Conflict Resolution and the Creation of Peace by H. Wallace Goddard “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” Nancy and I have some friends who have been …

Mom says I was a pleasant baby. As I grew, I must have become less pleasant. I remember spending a lot of my growing-up years annoying and battling my siblings. …

Often, we think we are acting nobly when we are actually being destructive. Some examples: Hoping to strengthen their marriage, a wife approaches her husband: “We need to talk.” Hoping to state the …

Yesterday I asked Nancy a question. She gave an answer that seemed quite unrelated to my question. I was baffled and annoyed. I blinked a few times to try to …

Two amazing people were struggling in their marriage. In desperation, they went to see a therapist. He told them to go home and each spend the week until their …

Dave Barry ironically observed that “Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the past …

Imagine that my wife Nancy has been in hard labor for hour after long hour through an entire night and most of the next day. I am by her side …

We can tell the story of our relationship in many ways. We can take the facts of our togetherness and form a comedy, a tragedy, a romance or a …