WELCOME

Welcome to (re)Married For Life, a blog by Brad and Greta! We hope this is a place that brings a little light, hope, laughter and community into your life

This space is born out of a desire to bring the hope of redemption to others through our respective stories and our journey as a couple. 

More often than not life doesn’t turn out how we hoped or dreamed it would as children but that doesn’t mean it isn’t beautiful. In my wildest dreams, I never expected to stand before God and vow to spend the rest of my life with someone, only to have my marriage end seven years later in a storm of pain and confusion. 

Several years later and remarried with a blended family, my husband, Brad, and I are embarking on a journey together to shed light on the fact that for fifty percent of us (in the church and out of it), marriage ends in divorce. Over the last few years we have had many a conversation wishing we’d had someone in a similar situation to help us process.  Through our blog we hope to provide a platform for couples and individuals, each with their own stories, to support and bring hope to one another. 

Life is messy and we are imperfect people trying to love one another perfectly. We are on a journey of Christ centered redemption.  Both having been divorced, both bringing children from our previous marriages and being first responders we have faced, and continue to face, trials.  We’ve tried our best to approach each with grace and laughter, not always succeeding. For us this is a place where we hope to process our journey and encourage others who have faced or are in similar situations.  While we have humorously albeit unironically (is that a word?) named our podcast and blog, (re)Married For life, we hope our story and journey touches you and sparks reflection in those of you who may be thinking of marriage for the first time, are married, divorced and/or remarrying after divorce.  

I like to think of us as newlyweds with A LOT of experience.  This is not a clinical discussion on marriage, divorce or remarriage, this is us talking to you about our first hand experience with all of the aforementioned.  We will be the first to admit we don’t have all the answers but we hope you join us for some very real, very raw, sometimes funny, sometimes hard conversations about life!

Check out our next blog post where we get real about the current divorce statistics and how we approach our marriage with intentional hope despite the odds!