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Our contest takes place the 12th of each month. We love giving one couple a date night out to their favorite restaurant. Our way of blessing and encouraging you in your marriage.
To enter, simply comment to this post telling us what you like most about The Romantic Vineyard. If you share this post with your friends via e-mail – tell us and you’ll be entered twice. We’ll announce the winner sometime tomorrow!
On Another Note: If you have an American Flag – be sure to fly it today in remembrance of all those Americans who lost their lives 9 years ago today. May we never forget!
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Wow – there are so many things I like about Romantic Vineyard. But what I like most is the way it spurs me on to loving my husband more. After 9 years of marriage you can become comfortable with one another. But your posts make me want to learn to love my husband more and better!
Thank you for doing this blog!
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Dacia, Has it really been 9 years? Wow. We’re so glad the Vineyard is helping you love your husband better. We love serving the church in this way! And we love your husband too! 🙂
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For me, I was married 4x before; yes, 4 times!! I was not saved during the first marriage, and was seeking during the next 2. Chose abuse and dysfunction, and put myself and my kids through so much pain. Three years after the most abusive marriage and horrible divorce, I sat at my PC, praying to the Lord about my lonliness and wishing to find the one who He wanted me to bless and He said, “Go fishing.” LOL, seriously, I had doubts, but found my husband on a small dating site, and we are going to celebrate our 3rd year, October 3. We both know this is IT. We are raising our 5 kids with God first, and although it’s a daily struggle, we have committed ourselves to this marriage and family for our lives. I thank The Romantic Vineyard for helping me keep on task, focused on the most important things, and the reason God brought my husband and I together; to bless one another and to bless these children. Thank you for doing what you do!!
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Dear Barb, What a humble comment. We pray your marriage will continue to grow year after year, not only for your relationship and for your children’s sake, but for God’s glory. Thank you for joining us in our Vineyard. We’re so glad you found us.
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I love the Romantic Vineyard the most for the many ideas to romance my hubby. I love receiving the constant reminders on how and why to make this a high priority in my life. Thank you so much for investing your life in us!
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Praise, We absolutely LOVE investing our lives in young couples like you. You are the reason we started this blog in the first place! Love you bunches!
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I agree with the previous post; there is a lot to like about the Romantic Vineyard. The number one thing for me is that it makes me critically think about the state of my marriage and how I can improve myself to improve my marriage. I don’t forward a lot of “advice” emails however, I find myself forwarding the ones from this blog. Thank you for your work!
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Russell, We are honored you find our advice helpful enough to pass along. Since it is biblical we know the lasting worth of our advice is because of HIM, not us. We will never outgrow the need for improvement in our own lives, much less our marriage.
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I simply love the encouragement to “work” at the romance. My husband and I have been married for 12 years. 2 kids, 2 dogs, and a whole lot of stress later, we sometimes slip into the misconception that we should know all there is to know about making each other happy! Ha! So thanks for the signposts that say, in various words, “room for improvement”, and for making that message a source of encouragement!
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Naomi, We love metaphors and this one is perfect. Our marriages will always have room for improvement. This can either be a source of great irritation or a part of the great adventure. I’m glad we get to “work” together with couples like you.
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I just love the fact that it encourages marriage. So many things in our culture today simply do not do that. My husband and I have been married for over 19 years, and we want to continue to live and grow in love. It takes a lot of work, but it’s so worth it.
Thanks for the encouragement.
God Bless,
Amy Mahoney
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Dear Amy, We agree with you, and this is one reason we started the Vineyard – to encourage what God ordained marriage to be.
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Is this how I enter the contest? I am so contestuly confused.
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Yes, and I don’t think we can help the “contestuly confused” part. You either have it or you don’t! Mik, you always make me see the lighter side of life. Thanks!
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I love how The Romantic Vineyard encourages growth in marriage whether you are newly weds or have been married for 30 years. I want to wake up every day loving my husband more than the day before! TRV helps me do just that. 🙂
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Ashley – This desire shows itself everyday. We love watching you love our son. You are a gift to our family!
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Just joined the group this week and look forward to creative ideas for my husband and I.
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Welcome to our Vineyard, Joye!
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Romantic Vineyard is a great reminder for me with great ways to be creative in my marriage.. with the season of an almost 2 year old, and one on the way, I often forget to be creative.. Thank you!
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You’re welcome! We love you, Noelle!
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I love the DAILY reminder I get (on Facebook) to love my husband well and to be committed to being intentional in our marriage.
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Thank you, April. If you have any Healthy Marriage Tips, we’re always looking for them! Thanks for entering.
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I love that you guys are so REAL!! and the ideas you share with us are so doable. I don’t feel intimadtef by them, so we end up doing more for our marriage!! Thank you!!!
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What I love most about The Romantic Vineyard? Simply that I found you! 🙂 I found the website through another one (The Generous Wife) and signed up for your daily emails immediately! My sweet hubby and I have been married almost 20 years and we have a great relationship. We have 2 teenagers. Keep up the great work! I love your encouragement!!
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Dear Annie, And we are glad you found us!
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I truly appreciate the daily encouragement you give to all of us to love our partners with tender unselfishness… not something easily achieved, but definitely something we can try afresh each day through grace. My husband and I have been blessed with over 30 years of marriage, and are still discovering new things about love and commitment. Thank you for the encouragement!
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Thank you, Vicki. Learning how to be unselfish is a lifelong goal. Little by little we grow through grace. Congratulations on 30+ years. Isn’t this the best?
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The Romantic Vineyard is encouraging and practical! I love the tips that can make a day become a wonderful memory! Patrick and I will celebrate 37 years of marriage this coming Wed. (September 15.) We will never stop needing fresh ideas and inspiration to keep us walking in love!
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Thank you, Carolynn, and congratulations on 37 years! That’s quite an accomplishment – we would love to hear some of your ideas for how you keep the home fires burning.
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My wonderful husband and I are a young couple that’s been married for 5 years. Not long ago we were going back and forth in a casual bantar. I only half jokingly said to him, “We don’t like each other very much, do we?” What he said next really made me stop and think. He replied:
“Nah, But we don’t have to like each other all the time, because we truely LOVE each other. That’s what makes us different from other couples. A lot of people get married because they really like each other, and they think that’s what love is.. but what happens when they inevitably stop liking each other?”
So, I like Romantic Vinyard’s tips and ideas that help me and remined me to always love my husband, even when I don’t always really like him. 😉
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Thanks, Carla. Love isn’t a feeling – it’s a commitment! It takes us through all kinds of difficulty.
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Teri Bristol e-mailed this entry:
The thing I like most about the Romantic Vineyard is the variety of tools you use to encourage us, whether it’s a personal story, Bible verses, quotes from other famous people (like your recent post on joy…it really hit home.), etc…
Thanks for all you do!
Teri
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Paul B. e-mailed this one:
I like the weekend suggestions. Might want to ask readers to send in suggestions to help spare your gray matter.
Paul
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Too late on the “gray matter”, Paul. But by all means send us your suggestions.
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I don’t think I can just put one thing…I don’t have one favorite thing I have several. 🙂 I love all the different ideas for date nights. My husband and I tend to get in a rut with date nights and going on TRV helps come up with something different. I also love going on facebook and finding marriage reminders. That helps a lot! I need little reminders daily to be selfless, loving, and kind. I have encouraged my hubby to visit TRV to get ideas as well! Thanks for all the help 🙂
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Thanks, Amy. We’ll encourage your husband too! We love you both so much!
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A friend forwarded The Romantic Vineyard to me about two weeks ago. I am so glad she did because it is hard to find good Christian mentoring especially when it comes to marriage. What a wonderful gift Debi and Tom provide for others to nurture and protect such a sacred and awesome covenant that God intended never to be broken. Thanks for sacrificing your time by providing me with excellent ways to prune my attitudes and help to love my husband in new and creative ways. It helps to have the wisdom of those that have been there already. After 19 years of marriage it is so easy to leave things as they are but The Romantic Vineyard has helped me to see that if left unattended a Vineyard dies. I pray I will put the things I am learning into practice. I love the pictures and scripture applied with the wisdom gained through real life experience. Keep up the good work! May God bless The Romantic Vineyard with fragrant testimonies of revived and vibrant marriages.
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Thank you, Dora. Welcome to our Vineyard. We agree with your prayer for “revived and vibrant marriages”.
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I like the way you guys share honestly from your experiences in your marriage and the lessons you have learned along the way. A wonderful encouragement to a relatively young married couple (6 1/2 years), especially reminding us to focus on each other, even with the extra time and attention that kids require during the day.
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Nick – so glad you value honesty in marriage. It is what allows God to use us in our strengths and weaknesses!
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I was blessed to have recently been referred to your blog and I LOVE IT! It is almost like going to church….when I get there, there is always something that applies to my life and it makes me want to come back for more! Thanks so much!
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Welcome to our Vineyard, Julie! We love hearing from our new readers – enjoy!
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The Romantic Vineyard is a site that I can come to and be encouraged, challenged & taught how to love my husband. I know that when I come here that I don’t have to weed through any of the doctrine–I know that it is biblically sound here! Thank you for sharing your lives through this blog , may God richly bless you for your time & effort.
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Thanks for your encouragement Joyce. We are committed to be “Biblically sound” here.
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I like the way it always seems like the encouragement I need shows up on The Romantic Vineyard on the exact day that I need it. Thanks for all the work that goes into encouraging couples to stay the course.
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Thank you, Lynn. We’re glad you’re being encouraged – something we all need!
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I love the Romantic Vineyard mostly because after 19 years of being happily married it gently “reminds”me of all those wonderful things that I “used” to do and have gotten to busy to remember. It spurs on creativity and helps me to remember to invest in my marriage in a Godly way!! Keep up the good work!!
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