JULIE N. GORDON

October 29, 2014

Two of the Most Important Wife Skills

Some of you might have already read Section I below as I posted it as a blog on my website recently. Please skip Section I if you’ve already read it. There are numerous wife skills that we have learned in Wife School Online, but I want to again re-emphasize what is the Big Kahuna and…

October 25, 2014

Conquering “Discouraging Thinking”

As you know, school doesn’t teach you the most important lessons in life. You don’t learn how to have rich relationships, you don’t learn about health, no one teaches you the proper use of finances nor do they teach you to discover and use your gifts—to name a few important subjects in life. You certainly…

October 22, 2014

The Lost Art of Hospitality

Neil Warren Clark suggests that unmarried people write down a “Must Have” and “Can’t Stand” list for what they are looking for in a future spouse. Most of my children have written these lists and have them “tucked away” (our daughter said she found an exact match for her list.) A group of mature young…

October 20, 2014

Handling Your Disappointing Thing

I like to go to bed early and get up early. This morning at 4:30 a.m., I was in the kitchen, starting the coffee. Morning is a happy time for me, when the rest of the world is asleep and I am getting started on my day. The thoughts start their usual parade across the…

October 14, 2014

Something Husbands Like

Regularly, a group of friends and I have lunch. While two of us were waiting on a couple of the others to arrive, I asked the wise woman with me (who mentors women) what she thought were the most important principles to communicate to young wives about what is important in growing a great marriage.…

October 10, 2014

The Spiritual Leadership of Your Husband, Revisited

Women are always looking for “emotional closeness” in their marriage. And the latest ploy of women is to bash their husbands for not being spiritual leaders. Let me give you the “spiritual leadership fantasy” of many women. Ready? The fantasy is of a husband who gathers his wife and little chickens under his wing, and…

October 7, 2014

Yes, Kids Are a Lot of Work

Waiting in a doctor’s office once, I picked up a magazine called Outside. In the magazine was an article on happiness. It gave a study that compared the happiness of couples with children to the happiness of those without children. The first study said that a couples’ happiness diminishes when they have a child, and…

September 23, 2014

If You Don’t Feel Loved By Your Husband

This is Lesson 13, Section III from Wife School Online. Many women are disappointed with the fact that their husbands don’t know how to love them in a language that they (the wife) can hear. Many women do not understand that a husband has to be taught to love you, just like a four-year-old has…

September 18, 2014

How Husbands Feel About Your Birthday, Anniversary, and Other Holidays

Taken from Lesson 13, Section I in Wife School Online: The Valentine’s Day before David and I were engaged, he called to tell me that he was going to the Memphis Tigers basketball game with his dad. I will not print my response to that here, but let’s just say that he was wildly unaware…

August 7, 2014

Something Husbands Desperately Need But Wives Are Reluctant to Give

The following blog is about something husbands desperately need but wives are reluctant to give. It is taken from Lesson 7, Section 1 in the 22-week online course, Wife School Online. In Chapter 7 on the A of Approval in Wife School, the Genie told Jessica that “spouses can read between the lines to hear if…