Rachel from Musings of a Future Pastor’s Wife describes herself as follows:

I’m a sinner saved by the grace of Jesus Christ. Wife to "Boaz." Mother to "Princess." Join me as I make my way through life’s ups and downs, strive to be a Proverbs 31 woman, and most of all be changed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes only from Him. I also enjoy warm climates, jazz music, football, boiled seafood, and the occasional beignet. I’m stereotypical like that.

Next there’s Lois Lane II from fearfully, wonderfully made:

I am an absent-minded, coffee-holic professor and have been married to my college sweetheart for three years and counting! We strive daily to be mirrors of God and also have one adorable Chihuahua.

These two fine ladies want to help expose the lies that wives believe, and help us all become better spouses… as well as shine a funny light on married life.

And that’s no lie.

So, how do you pick on married life, but not let it get too personal.  I mean, if we simply talk about generic husbands and wives we may give the impression that it’s our husband or wife that’s saying or doing the wrong types of things.

A short time ago, I came up with the idea of having fictional characters.  Having a little bit of fiction in my past¹ I thought it would be neat to come up with some fictional characters that could have interactions.

This morning, in the shower², it hit me.  I have a fiction site, full of characters with different backgrounds, and I’ve been wanting to write autobiographies for, and they also have lots of history.  They also have photos selected for them, and I could reference times in their lives that are actually written.

It might work, it might flop.

But I figure it might be fun to try.  So what I’ll do over the next week is introduce you to some of the couples that inhabit my fiction site (it’ll also give me more reason to keep posting parts of the story over there…) and give them their own pages and room for growth, and then we can either look at some of the lies that the wives believed over there, or come up with new ones involving their lives.

1. Albeit not very good fiction—fiction of the teen fiction kind.
2. One of the best places for me to think, btw!

The idea for the site is two fold:

First, we’ll take a look at the husband/wife dynamic as it pertains to the communication between husband and wife—in a funny way, of course.

Second, we’ll take a look at some of the things that wives believe about themselves, and try to shine a light on the truth of the situation.

It should be a lot of fun, and perhaps we’ll get some more wives to help write along the way.

So, join me, if you will, as we journey down the road looking at married life with all of its wrinkles and expectations.