Nashville Marriage Studio

Are you getting married within the next year? Want to do something now that will help prepare you for your future?

Then join us for a Bound Together Workshop at Wedding 101 at The Factory in Franklin!

Nashville Marriage Studio and Wedding 101 would like to invite you to spend a Saturday learning about what it takes to have a successful marriage and feel even more confident with your decision to get married.

Here’s what we’ll cover:

What kind of attitude do you need for a great marriage?

Can we really feel closer after a fight?

If you’re looking for comprehensive education on all things married life then sign up for this workshop today!
And don’t forget that in Tennessee getting premarital education
will save you $60 on your marriage license.

Details:
Location – Wedding 101 in  The Factory in Franklin, TN
Date – Saturday, July 17th
Time – 10am – 3pm
Fee – $100
Space is limited, so email Marie McKinney Oates as soon as possible to register (marie.mckinney@gmail.com)

I don’t know about you, but images from the Gulf, like the one above, break my heart. I know there are so many humans affected by this, but my heart aches for the poor animals who called the Gulf their home. That poor bird, right?!?

The thing is, our problem with the oil spill started long before an explosion on an oil rig. There was our insatiable hunger for oil, companies more interested in profit than safety and a government willing to let an industry regulate itself. These problems have been here for years, but it isn’t until a beautiful bird is covered in oil that we take a closer look.

The same thing happens in our relationships, and it is why I believe that premarital counseling and/or education is so vital to the success of a marriage. The dynamics and issues that exist on your wedding day are the same ones that may eventually lead to your own “relationship oil spill”, such as infidelity, loss of intimacy, or simply drifting apart.

I’m sure that anyone affected by the oil spill would do anything to go back 5 years in order to prevent this catastrophe, so what are you doing today to prevent a similar catastrophe in your future marriage?

Are you a married couple in the Nashville area? Looking for a way to reignite the passion and sense of partnership that existed on the day you said “I do”?

Then Spark just might be for you.

Love, Milk & Honey is debuting a new marriage retreat that encourages you to treasure your marriage in new and unique ways. For example, you’ll be given an interior design consultation, a photography session with Ulmer Studios,  and a tailored date night (that you both just get to show up at!) and various advice and talks regarding marriage.

How stinkin’ cool and “out of the box” thinking is this? I love it.

The retreat will be happening on August 20-22nd at Aloft Hotel in Franklin.

If you’re into creative ways to strengthen your marriage then I’d seriously check it out – Registration Info.

I had a high school math teacher that had an interesting way of forcing me to confront my fear of failure.

Every Friday we’d take a test covering whatever we’d learned that week. We’d get the test back on Monday and our homework would be to review our incorrect answers. And then correct them.

It didn’t matter how high your grade was, unless you got a 100, you had homework. The homework assignment forced me to deal with a couple of things: 1) I wasn’t perfect, even if I was doing really well in the class, and 2) Mistakes are our friends as long as you learn from them.

Even as a teenager I knew that Ms. Barbee was teaching me something that was much more valuable than just the Pythagorean Theorem. She was teaching me how to deal with failure.

She reframed failure from something to avoid to something to learn from. Seeing incorrect answers on a returned test no longer filled me with dread over how I screwed up, instead I was curious about how I screwed up and wondered if I’d be able to figure out where things went wrong. I was also able to get a clearer picture of the mathematical concepts I was truly getting and had simply made a silly mistake, and which concepts  were still way over my head.

Where has your relationship or marriage been tested?

How did you guys do?

How did you do things right? How did you fail?

Did you confront the failure?

How do you normally deal with failure? Your partner?

How is your normal failure approach different when it comes to your relationship?

What would you have liked to have done differently?

What makes your relationship still valuable, even in light of its weaknesses?

Learning to love is just as much about learning to fail.