Marriage Tuesday…from the left coast. On Wednesday.

Today, Wanda and I drove by the place we lived in years two through five of our married life.   At the end of our first year, we got hired at Pacific Christian College (two hours north of our home town of San Diego) as head residents in the women’s dorm.

Stupid us.  We actually thought it sounded like a good idea for us to move in the same dorm with 200 college girls…after we’d been married for less than a year.  Go figure.   These are a couple of pics of where we lived for four years.

Anyway, I was thinking today about how different our life would have been…how different our marriage would have been…if some older couples hadn’t got involved in our lives at that crucial spot in our newbie relationship. Wow.

So here’s the message you have heard before…but needs to be said again and again:

If you’re young and new at marriage, humble yourself and seek out the advice, help and input of older, wiser couples. If you’re older and wiser, start actively caring about young marriages.   They need it.    You need it. I promise I won’t bring this up again for…uh…until I feel like it again.    So there.

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