Our Favorite Tips For Newlyweds

THE VOWS HAVE BEEN EXCHANGED, THE GIFTS HAVE BEEN UNWRAPPED, THE HONEYMOON WAS A BLAST, AND THE THANK YOU NOTES HAVE BEEN WRITTEN… …and still, regardless of how long you’ve been together, being married is different. The first couple of years can be a challenge because learning how to do marriage the right way takes some […]

6 Tips on Surviving and Thriving in a Long Distance Relationship

RELATIONSHIPS ARE A WILD AND CHALLENGING JOURNEY ALL ON THEIR OWN. So it makes sense that, no matter the reason, when you add ‘long-distance’ into the mix, you find yourself up against some real “make it or break it” scenarios. Whether your partner is in the military, travels a lot for work, or is pursuing […]

Our Debt Story: How We Paid Off $200k

WE HATE TALKING ABOUT MONEY.  Budgets, spreadsheets, credit limits, financial goals, retirement funds… we’d rather talk about anything than have to face our money head on. But something terrible happened to us back in 2008, and we were forced to deal with our financial issues. This is our miraculous story about how we were able […]

6 Tips for Breaking Your Smartphone Obsession

I’M NOT SURE ABOUT YOU, BUT…. I don’t want to look back 20 years from now and know that I missed out on some of my life’s greatest memories, all because I was obsessed with scrolling on my phone. Relationships today are suffering for many reasons, but cell phone usage is by far on the top […]

23 Ways to Immediately Connect with Your Fiancé

In relationships, disconnect happens. I would like to say disconnect never happens, but that’s unrealistic. We get selfish, we get busy with the wedding planning, we mishandle and misplace our priorities, we say hurtful things, and we do things that imperfect people do because we are imperfect. We end up distant, if for a moment, […]