Marriage Advice for Busy Couples

ShareThis…     This…..     This….   Of Course… And Finally, If you can’t tell what that is, its the turtle that decided to cross the road at 5pm Monday evening  as I was rushing home. Yep, that was my day. Do you have any other things that always happen when you’re running late? [...]

ShareI remember the last time that I was actually “doing nothing.” I was sitting outside on top of a wall in front of a friend’s dorm eating cotton candy. Students were throwing a Frisbee and the sun was going down.  I felt a little warmer than I wanted to be in a gray long sleeved [...]

Share How will you achieve greatness in your marriage today? Tweet This PostAja Dorsey JacksonAja Dorsey Jackson is a Baltimore area freelance writer, wife and mother of two who started Making Love in the Microwave for busy married couples working to keep their marriages strong. In addition to her passion for helping create healthy marriages, [...]

ShareThis might sound a little strange coming from a woman who touted anti-procrastination week not too long ago, but as much as I try to curb my procrastinator tendencies by “doing it now” sometimes I try to do everything now. It doesn’t always work out that well. You know that moment where you wonder why [...]

Share Tweet This PostAja Dorsey JacksonAja Dorsey Jackson is a Baltimore area freelance writer, wife and mother of two who started Making Love in the Microwave for busy married couples working to keep their marriages strong. In addition to her passion for helping create healthy marriages, she provides professional writing assistance to small business owners [...]

Share Sunday night around 9 p.m. I went to put my son to be (late) and my 12-year-old daughter said, “by the way, I have some clothes that need to be washed. I’m going to put them downstairs in the laundry room.” Let’s step back a little bit. I work in PR for a school [...]

ShareWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.- Aristotle Thank you wise Aristotle for giving some credence to my mantra, because it sounds lot better when you say it. Love is a habit. The philosopher may not have been talking specifically about love or marriage, but if excellence [...]

ShareI’m going to let you in on one of the most romantic things I’ve heard all year. (Men, you should try this.) My husband called me to our bedroom, looked me in the eye, and said: “I’ll take care of all of our son’s laundry from now on.” Bing- Bam-Pow! Talk about keeping it hot. [...]

ShareWhen we did a survey last year to find out what was the biggest obstacle for our readers in finding time for their spouses, the number one answer was work, which is no surprise. In a tough economy, businesses are trying to “do more with less.” At the end of the day this means more [...]

Share  Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Somewhere in your spouse’s life today, he or she could use encouragement. Even in those moments when we may look or feel like we have it all together, just hearing someone say “I believe in [...]