Bret Legg
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Lists! They’re everywhere! Eight steps to successful parenting. Three steps to determine if you partner is cheating on you. The four things you need to remember when buying a house. Ten ways to impress your boss. Five ways to romance your…
When I’m eating out, I hate not getting what I ordered. Once while traveling, my wife and I pulled off the interstate to grab something to eat. Like a pit stop at Indy, we drove through, got our food, and got back on the road. Back on the…
I just watched the movie “Saving Mr. Banks.” (Yeah, I’m behind in my movie watching.). The movie is loosely based on the life of P. L. Travers, (author of the Mary Poppins books) and her thorny, combative struggle with Walt Disney over the…
It was a busy Saturday for my wife and me. We had two celebrations to attend in the same afternoon. One was a wedding, and the other was a celebration of a 50th wedding anniversary. Later that evening, after attending both events, I was…
Dealing with money and in-laws is a normal part of marriage, but it can be a point of stress and contention in a marriage. Listen in to last week’s Normal Marriage class to learn more.
It was one of those evening when I was in a lousy mood. After watching two episodes of “House” (episodes that seemed to flaunt a lack of commitment in marriage by the way), I got up to take a shower and go to bed. I was finishing my shower…
What are you afraid of? When I was very young I was afraid of clowns. To this day, I don’t remember why, but I remember the fear. I also was afraid of the dark. (Yeah, I was kind of a wimpy kid.) No one wants to be afraid, but let’s face…
We often try to avoid conflict in marriage. Let’s face it…very few people enjoy having a conflict with their spouse. It unpleasant personally and it can make us think there’s something wrong with the marriage. But conflict is a normal and…
It was a normal evening, and I had no idea what was about to happen. My daughter was playing on the floor in the living room and I was helping my wife get dinner on the table. I had just put a bake potato on a plate when suddenly it…
When we’re growing up and we encounter things beyond our control, we tend to look for someone who is in control. We look for a parent, a teacher, a referee, a police officer…anyone who can exercise some control over our situation. But if…
If you struggle with communication in marriage, or just want to tweak things a little, listen to this class audio on Normal Communication. It was a great time of laughing and learning together.…
In a previous post entitled “As Good As Sex…Almost,” I talked about a valuable lesson learned from riding out an ice storm with my wife. I thought I was done with the ice storm lessons, until a recent walk through the neighborhood revealed…
Advertisements are everywhere. They blare from our TVs. They stand out on signs and billboards along our streets and highways. They fill the spaces of our web pages. We’ve become saturated with advertisements.
Listen to last week’s Normal Marriage class to see what you’ve been missing. Share it with someone who might enjoy it…or need it. Then join us tonight as we continue figuring out what it means to have a normal marriage you can really enjoy.
Compatibility. It’s the idea that if you can find a person with similar personality traits, similar interests, similar backgrounds, etc. then there will be a higher probability of the relationship being successful. But there’s a problem…
Who are the good guys and who are the bad guys? In the old westerns, all you had to do was see who was wearing the white hat and who was wearing the black hat. It’s not that easy now. For example… Edward Snowden. Good guy or bad guy? The…
There’s a sweet spot to many things in life. There’s a sweet spot on a baseball bat that sends the ball over the fence. There’s a sweet spot for musicians where all the notes seem to come together effortlessly. There’s also a sweet spot in…
I grew up in the country with a lot of farmland and a lot of barns. On top of most of those barns was a weather vane. The weather vane was usually in the shape of a rooster or some other farm animal and it would turn in the wind till it…
When I was young, I fell asleep while a dentist was working on my teeth. I had not been given anything to relax me. I just fell asleep. The dentist couldn’t believe it, and called my mom back just to see it. Whether it’s the dentist or…
It was the biggest ice storms in ten years. Our power went out around 8:30 in the evening, so we lit candles and fired up the gas log in the living room. Since the living room was the warmest place in the house, we made a bed on the floor…
Surveyors use a benchmark to determine clear boundaries. A benchmark is a point of reference from which everything else is measured. It’s a point that’s unchanging and immovable, because a benchmark that changes will skew all the other…