Category: Marriage

3 Lessons and 2 Tips is a series of interviews in which some of my favorite people (and probably some of yours) share three lessons they’ve learned by being married, plus two tips for single people.

This edition features Haley Stewart, a bookish, somewhat crunchy, hipster mama of three lively children. She’s a writer, speaker, blogger, and Catholic convert.

Haley is married to “Daniel of the big beard and the green thumb.” She’s also a homeschooling, bacon-eating, coffee-drinking southern girl with a flair for liturgical feasts and a penchant for bright red lipstick. I am super pumped she agreed to share three lessons and two tips with us today. Continue reading “3 Lessons and 2 Tips from Haley Stewart”

3 Lessons and 2 Tips is a series of interviews in which some of my favorite people (and probably some of yours) share three lessons they’ve learned by being married, plus two tips for single people.

This edition features Tyler Braun, author of Why Holiness Matters and pastor at New Harvest Church in Salem, Oregon, where he lives with his wife and two kids.

AS: How did you meet your wife?

TB: My wife Rose and I met at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon (30 minutes from Portland). We were friends for the first two years of school. Despite being good friends Rose wasn’t too fond of me early in college. She thought I was cocky and full of myself (she was right), but thankfully I changed a lot before I asked her out on a date. We played against each other in intramural basketball, and we led worship together for a student-led chapel. I finally got the courage to see if she’d want to do something just us at the beginning of our junior year.

AS: When did you get married?

TB: We were married on January 6th, 2007 in Salem, Oregon. This kind of gets at question number four, but a quick tip for those who are single and wanting to get married, I highly recommend a winter wedding. All the typical wedding services are less expensive. A honeymoon to someplace warm during those cold months is a treat in itself. And you don’t have to compete with all the other weddings on people’s calendars.

AS: What’s one lesson you’ve learned in marriage? Continue reading “3 Lessons and 2 Tips from Tyler Braun”

3 Lessons and 2 Tips is a series of interviews in which some of my favorite people (and probably some of yours) share three lessons they’ve learned by being married, plus two tips for single people.

This edition features Matt Swaim, the host of the Son Rise Morning Show on EWTN Radio, and the author of The Eucharist and the Rosary and Prayer in the Digital Age. He resides with his family in Cincinnati.

He graciously agreed to share lessons he’s learned in marriage plus tips for single people. Follow him on Twitter, right after you read this:

AS: How did you meet your wife?

MS: On the internet. On a punk rock social networking site. Back when Facebook was still The Facebook.

AS: When did you get married?

MS: December 18, 2004. Christmas weddings are underrated- they make it a lot easier to get everybody together when they’ve already got time off! Plus, you’re not sweating to death in a monkey suit.

AS: What’s one lesson you’ve learned in marriage?

MS: Never badmouth your spouse to other people. Other people usually know you better than they do your spouse, and will come to your defense rather than theirs. It creates an echo chamber of negativity, and can fuel the illusionary mentality that you’re always the one who’s in the right.

AS: And a second lesson? Continue reading “3 Lessons and 2 Tips From Matt Swaim”