Degrees in Idealism

exploring how we would live if we truly believed life was meaningful

When You Can’t Do Date Night

01.13.2018 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 4 Comments

Scheduled date nights are often prescribed for couples to keep their relationships strong. I don’t think this is a bad thing— I think it’s most often a very good thing! Creating uninterrupted, quality time and space to spend with those we love is essential. Nobody wants their marriage to become a mere roommate-situation. Scheduled date […]

Categories // Family, Marriage Tags // #datenight, #koselig, #marriage, #parenthood, #romance

The Very Thought of You

11.12.2016 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

It seems to be a generally accepted fate that people who fell in love will fall out of it and that romance within long-term relationships or marriage is bound to die. The usual advice to try to prevent this goes something like: try to make time for each other. Set monthly/weekly date nights. And certainly, […]

Categories // Marriage Tags // #love, #marriage, #romance

When The Love Letters Stop

06.19.2015 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 1 Comment

On our bathroom counter there is an old sparkling grape juice bottle decorated with ribbons. It was the bottle my husband (then boyfriend) brought when he took me on a romantic date to the rooftop of our college dining hall. Later, he decorated the bottle for me to keep as a memento. Looking at it today, […]

Categories // Marriage Tags // #love, #marriage, #romance

Why Marriage is “Difficult”

01.05.2015 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 1 Comment

Marriage is great, BUT… They continue about how complicated everything is, how it’s never easy, how they want to kill each other half the time, or whatever it is that isn’t honeymoon bliss. You can find this kind of comment all over the place. It is usually made by somebody who really does believe in […]

Categories // Marriage Tags // #marriage, #romance, #suffering

On Finding the One

05.21.2014 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 2 Comments

In the first long conversation I had with my husband I was currently interested (maybe obsessed is a better word) in Myers Briggs and the Four Temperaments. I probably spent thirty minutes asking him questions, analyzing his personality, and mapping it out for him in diagrams. Thankfully, he must not have thought I was too […]

Categories // Marriage Tags // #compatibility, #dating, #marriage, #myersbriggs, #relationships, #romance, #virtue

About Me

I'm Elizabeth. I'm a wife, a mother to six children, a writer, and a lover and seeker of the beautiful, the true, and the good. I am a believer in idealism-- that even amidst the chaos and the confusion, the exhaustion and the sadness of life there is always joy to be found, hope to be clung to, and a better path to be taken. I write my thoughts on this blog. Links to my fiction books are at the bottom of the page.

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