by kathilipp | Sep 25, 2012 | Uncategorized |
How to be Married to a Super Awesome (!!!) Expressive Like Me
by Kathi Lipp
(Check out our guide to finding out your personality type !)
When figuring out which of the four personality types (analytic, driver, amiable, expressive) you are, most of the time you will be a combination of two or three. You can’t pigeon hole people. But pigeon – here is your hole: I am almost 100% Expressive.
And while I’m fun to have a parties, I can be somewhat of a challenge to live with.
I am the person who (after watching one half episode of something on HGTV) will take off and go buy all the paint to redecorate our bedroom, start the project, but then grow tired of it (butterfly!) and leave our room half painted for six months.
I’m all about people, not facts. So I’ll throw you an extravagant party to cheer you up after you break up with your boyfriend, without really checking to make sure we have the money in our account to buy so much at the party store.
Since being married to Roger (a self-admitted analytic), I’ve brought a huge dose of fun and excitement into his life. But there are some days when I know that he longs for the days of yore: sitting in his blue Lazy Boy chair and watching something with the word “Star” in it: Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica.
If You’re Married to an Expressive – Hints and Tips (by Kathi…)
Being Around Other People
I get pumped when I’m around other people that I find challenging, interesting and exciting. Roger, not so much. So we are fine if I go to an occasional event by myself. Let your expressive go out with friends. He will be the happier for it.
Doing vs. Chatting
Recently, I was at a business dinner and brought my computer so we could get some work done. (Trying to be on-task. Very against my nature…) The guy in our group was an Extreme Expressive. I never cracked the computer. He wanted to relate and our group was the better for it.
Starting
I love to start a project. I’m not so great at finishing. If you’re married to an Expressive, don’t kill the buzz, but help them manage it. Instead of agreeing to buying all 18 years of scrapbooks for your firstborn, encourage your Expressive to buy them one year at a time. (And she’ll probably lose interest in the first six weeks, anyway.)
Are you married to an Expressive? Are you an Expressive? Tell me what above fits your marriage, and how you’re different.
by kathilipp | Sep 16, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Roger and I were sitting around the dinner table with our next door neighbor, a recently retired teacher who has a fondness for cats and is happy to babysit our kitten while we travel. We, in exchange, make sure she has plants that are watered on a regular basis.
She is what we would call, “Low-tech”. Yes, she has a computer, but when it comes to things like Facebook, she has no need for them.
She was a little freaked out about understanding all the privacy settings and having people know where she is and what she is doing.
And I just thought to myself, “Oh you older people with your irrational paranoia… Yes, we have no privacy anymore, but that’s just the age we live in – it’s not like anyone is trying to find me…”
Not an hour later, I read this article about a disgruntled author tracking down an agent in MY HOME TOWN, at her kid’s school, and attacking her with a baseball bat.
You can be sure I’m going to double check my privacy settings – for sure.
This is not to freak anyone out, but to be a reminder to check those settings.
Tell me in the comments below how you stay safe online. We all need the reminder.
by kathilipp | Aug 30, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Don’t underestimate the power of Fast Food at Home. And the humble grilled cheese can be a very satisfying meal with a cup of soup or a fresh little salad. The other advantage is that grilled cheese can be a DYI kinda meal – if one kid can’t stand tomatoes – no problem – just leave them off.
Grilled Tomato and Cheese Toasties
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8
slices
Sourdough Bread
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2
tsp
Softened Butter
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8
tsp
Dijon Mustard
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4
oz
Cheddar, Gruyere, Havarti, or cheese that melts well
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8
slices
Fresh Tomatoes
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Put a small skillet (with lid) over medium heat.
Butter one side of each slice of bread.
Smear mustard on the unbuttered side of the bread slices.
Arrange cheese slices over one mustard-covered slice of bread.
Top cheese with tomato slices.
Cover with the other slice of bread.
Place the sandwich in the skillet – heat until bread is golden brown and the cheese is melty.
Slice diagonally and serve.
In Addition to the the Grown Up Grilled Cheese- Here are some free goodies!
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by kathilipp | Aug 21, 2012 | Relationships, Uncategorized |
Are you willing to take The LOVE YOU Challenge?
You will be required to:
- Encourage Your Husband
- Get a Little Creative
- Show Off Your Mad Money Saving Skills
If so, I would love for you to take the Love You Challenge.
All you have to do is do something, anything to let your husband know you love him, however, it needs to 100%, completely free.
That’s right. No money may exchange hands in the loving of your husband.
Here are a few, totally debt-free things you could do to love your man:
- Make him a cup of coffee and bring it to him when he gets out of the shower.
- Leave a post-it in his boxers with a racy message.
- Text him something flirty.
- Take him out to dinner with that gift card that has been in your wallet since 2009.
- Do a chore that he normally does.
- Bake him cookies.
- Brag on him on Facebook.
- Call his mom.
- Give him a massage.
- Spell out “Love You” with Scrabble tiles.
Tell me what you did (or will do!) for your man here in the comments on the blog, and you will be entered to win one of my six books (I will give away one a day over the next six days.) I’ll be picking one winner each day from August 23-28th.
I’m off to make some No=Pudge Brownies for my man.
by Roger Lipp | Jun 15, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Friends – there are so many different areas of work to cover for your man. I’ve dedicated two chapters to it in my book Praying God’s Word for Your Husband. Since it’s the weekend, I’m keeping it short today. Pray for whatever aspect of your man’s work that applies – here is a simple prayer for his work.
Colossians 3:23
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters
Father, I pray that every decision my husband makes about his work is influenced by you. Lord, I pray that he would sense you presence at every turn – that he wouldn’t be weary of doing good, being honorable, and working with all his strength as if he were working for you.
would like to help one of you keep the prayer going by giving you my latest book, Praying God’s Word for Your Husband. Just let
me know in the comments below that you prayed for your man and we will choose one winner at random.
by kathilipp | Jun 14, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Friends – meet my friend Dineen. Here is her story about praying for her husband and the plans God has for his life.
My husband doesn’t know God. He’s a great guy, but he just doesn’t believe God exists. Yet there I stand in this marriage with this man I adore, and I see God’s plan for his life all around him.
And I love that I’m part of that plan just as I know my husband is part of God’s plan for me. My husband’s work, his challenges and trials—I see them all coming from God’s loving hand to bring him into a relationship with Christ.
Several years ago God impressed upon me to pray for my husband as if he were already a believer. As I started this journey I began to 
see that, aside from his greatest need to know Jesus, his day-to-day needs were much the same as a believing husband.
Each January I set a time aside to seek God for specific needs and Scriptures to pray for my family, and each year God is faithful to give me a specific verse or verses to pray for my husband and daughters. Each time reveals a piece of God’s plan for my husband, like pieces of a puzzle, and with each piece, I learn to trust God’s plan more and more.
This is the verse God spoke to my heart to pray for my husband in 2012:
and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. — Ephesians 3:1
What a powerful truth from God’s Word! Because no matter where we are in our faith journey, it’s all about God’s unfailing and life-changing love.
Lord, help my husband to fully understand Your amazing and passionate love for us. Fill him with this fullness and revelation of You and help him to firmly establish his identity in You. I pray that Your love will be the guiding force in his life, whether he sees it or not. In Your name, Jesus, amen!
Dineen (who blogs with Lynn Donovan over at SpirituallyUnequalMarriage.com) would like to give away her newest book, The Soul Saver, to one of my commenters. Jus tell me that you prayed for your man, and you will be entered to win.
In addition to writing for Spiritually Unequal Marriage, Dineen Miller has won several prestigious awards for her fiction. She’s also a C.L.A.S.S. Communicator and has been featured on the Moody Radio Network, Family Life and Focus on the Family Radio.Married for 24 years to a guy who keeps her young, she lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two adult daughters, who surprise her daily with their own creativity.
