Tag: head

The evening was going great until Katherine said to Dan, "I know we have plans for Friday night, just the two of us, but would you mind if we included our neighbors for dinner? I ran into Jan today, and it was good to see her, so she and I thought it would be a great idea to make it a foursome."

Dan’s first response was, "So you changed our plans without asking me? You know how I hate it when you do that. I don’t understand why you’ve put me in this position again when you know how I feel."

We are all blessed with two wonderful tools to help us through this exciting, sometimes frustrating journey called "marriage," which is a head and a heart. Each has a different function: your heart lets you know what you want—as in the phrase "your heart's desire," while your head helps you figure out how to get what you want.

When you use your head and your heart together and appropriately, it all works out great. Problems arise when: