Welcome to Marriage One Liners featuring the practical wisdom of my dear man, Randy Brittain, with my commentary to translate into wife-speak.
This blog page is meant to bring laughter to your life and hopefully a few conversation starters.
There’s no guarantee you’ll find these Marriage One Liners funny and there’s no guarantee that your marriage will improve by following along. However, if we offer something that causes you to think and perhaps crack a smile at normal marriage interactions, we may have helped just a tad.
God has been gracious to us and with the help of our beloved late counselor, Dr. Doug Rosenau, we learned to major on laughter and joy! Now married 36 years, my dear man regularly delivers what we call Marriage One Liners. He makes me laugh, but there’s some true wisdom in his words.
I thought we should record these and share them with others. We pray that God by the whimsical power of His Holy Spirit will use these to help you in your marriage.
If you are related to us and you’re embarrassed, we understand.
❤️love from the fun couple…
May 21, 2025
Today we celebrate 37 years of marriage, and a year of dating and becoming friends before the engagement. 38 years of investment have certainly paid some fabulous dividends. We experienced a setback or five through the years, and even had a complete collapse, which led to a season of rebuilding. We have been blessed with sons, daughters in love, and grandchildren, whom we absolutely love and in whom we greatly delight. God creates beautiful people and cultivates lives that will bring glory to His name…as we allow His leading and training.
What a joy ride! Oh how I LOVE YOU, Randy Brittain, my dear man. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to be your wife, friend, partner, and more… Thank You, Father, God, for loving us first so that we could begin to learn to love like You do. We love You too, more and more each day. We give thanks to You God for You alone are good; Your steadfast love surely endures forever… as we are the beneficiaries of Your great and steadfast love.
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“Two become one… not in a poof of vows said on one particular day. I think it’s more of a long, slow merging over a lifetime.”
Lisa Brittain
Here’s to life @ 62 and 64. Our 60s! That sounds less fun than, “We were born in the 60s!” Regardless, here’s to being married 37 years.
Here’s to a potpourri life.
All the things of living mixed in together. Giggles and renewed love. Commitment and struggles. Joint decisions and a few ‘fine, have it your ways’. Joy and sorrow.
How many days have you been married?
We’re north of 13,505 last I calculated.
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Failing is easy; just do nothing.
~Lisa Brittain
Success is hard; you have to try 24/7.
This post is dedicated with love and respect for all who are persevering with God in marriage. We’re cheering you on…
37 years… Lots of good, some truly hard seasons, and some real bloopers. But our commitment to God has won the battle every time. He has been faithful. Even during times when it was all just too hard and depressing, God did not give up or walk away. He didn’t let go of us.
Read more by clicking this link.
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Behold, how good it is…
Men, you steer the ship. You sail the boat.
Men, when you surrender your mind, will and emotions to our Savior, Christ, and follow Him, beautiful change will happen in your own life. But if you are willing to humble yourself and share God’s work in your life, your family will change.
When you humble yourself under God’s authority and link arms with other men, the church grows and strengthens. Your community will thrive when men dwell in love and unity under the Lordship of Christ.
For men who want to be powerful and significant, Christ is your key. Knowing Him more and more by following Him, reading His word and listening to His still small voice in regular conversation, this is how you live a life of significance.
Selah!
#men #livelovebrightly #eyesonjesusandshine #withness #significance #unity #love #menmatter
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“Life together is better.”
Randy Brittain
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“God remembers our marital vows better than we do.”
Lisa Brittain
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“God has such a great sense of humor. He allowed my physical weakness to be public so that I can’t hide my need for prayer.”
Randy Brittain
“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
Romans 12:1-2 NIV
With so much public conversation about who or what gets to decide what happens with our bodies, God’s word comes in pretty clear. We, with our God given free will, are most free, unhindered, and joy-filled when we surrender ourselves, body, mind, and soul, to the Lord, our Maker.
This is worship. Surrendering all of me to the One who made me is my best offering of adoration and honor in worship. This surrender confesses that I am only here and living and participating in life on earth because He has allowed me this opportunity.
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“I like to walk barefoot.”
Randy Brittain
Everyone in our neighborhood wants to know why he walks barefoot. When we lived in Georgia our neighbors wanted to know why he walked barefoot. It’s a conversation starter for sure. And there are plenty of ways to answer that one question.
But there’s one main reason why…
Read the rest of the story here.
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“Unless we have a good reason to say no, we should say yes.”
Randy Brittain
Being retired has many advantages, along with a few pitfalls. And when a person, who is highly career minded, is forced into retirement the pitfalls are accompanied by a very real and necessary grieving process.
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“If I ever meet your first husband, I’m going to tell him a thing or two!”
Randy Brittain
While he finished speaking these words, it took me a moment to process the sentiment. Because he is my first, and only, husband.
I began to laugh, and responded, “ Oh, you would, wouldn’t you!”
His goal each day is to make me laugh.
Our lives are rich with this type of banter, and laughter. We believe these moments keep us young, somewhat sane, and create enjoyment in married life. Before my one and only dear man left the room, he looked at me with an accomplished grin and said, “I already made you laugh today.”
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“No Take Backs”
Gary Milford, the father of the bride
This probably should be page 1, and most likely, one day when we actually publish the book, it will be page one of Marriage One Liners.
It was The Agreement between gentlemen.
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“Please stop answering what you think I’m asking.”
Lisa Brittain
I know. I know. He writes the marriage one liners, and I explain them.
However, just the other day as we were conversing, I started to laugh. You know those moments when you just get tickled, and you can’t stop laughing?
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“It took us about 30 minutes to adjust to the empty nest!”
Randy Brittain
Some of you are gone. You’re clicking out because that one-liner just sounds harsh. However, a few of you want to know more.
We, many times, but not always, find that the husbands are looking forward to an empty nest because he craves a return to married life with the wife of his youth. At the same time, most often, the wives are sending their youngest child off with some sense of angst, and a momma heart fully grieving a seemingly lost role.
So, just to be clear, please read and understand that we absolutely love our two sons. We did when they each left home, and we do now. Each of our men know this to be true, and they know we’re really proud of who they are becoming without our day to day parenting.
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“Expect nothing. Appreciate everything.”
Randy Brittain
“Expect nothing. Appreciate everything!”
2020. Yeah, I know. But some good things were mined from that dark and chaotic time in history. This quote printed on a coffee mug is one of them.
We ventured out to do a little shopping amongst the masked and unmasked. It was a time when some of us tried to make eye contact and share a smile while others ducked and walked the other way. Everyone was walking in their own shoes.
We grabbed hold of this one-liner and made it our own.
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“I left my boxes in Atlanta!”
Randy Brittain
In recent months this quote has become one of our most frequently used one-liners. But it could be a bit confusing unless we explain the context.
A year ago, our home in Lilburn, Georgia was full of boxes. We had stacks of donated boxes ready to be unfolded and taped and filled. We had rooms collecting filled boxes that had already been taped and labeled. The boxes went on the moving van and followed us all the way.
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“We’re supposed to learn to celebrate in the desert.”
Randy Brittain
What does it mean to celebrate?
I’m sure we all have our own definitions. However, in our definition a celebration would typically occur in the aftermath of a perceived victory.
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“It’s good to see some toe cleavage!”
Randy Brittain
This is our first desert winter. And we’ve been cold. To be totally honest, we’ve been wondering if we missed the fine print disclosure on the marketing brochure regarding winter prep.
Apparently though, according to more seasoned inhabitants, snow in the mountains is highly unusual at the beginning of April. So, even though we live down in the palm trees, it’s been all closed-toe shoes for us since November!
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“Good morning, sweetheart. Are you ready for your coffee?”
Randy Brittain
The fact that he knows that my love language is waking up to a nearly boiling, aroma-filled cup of strong black coffee is glorious. The fact that I never asked him to serve me coffee in bed as my eyes peek open is a miracle!
When we started out as newlyweds we were highly influenced by intricately woven strands of church culture and relationship norms of the 1980’s. That was quite a hybrid weave.
As such I made it known pre-marriage that I wouldn’t be starching and ironing his professional wear. And he let me know that he didn’t drink coffee and thus didn’t make coffee. (This was pre-Keurig)
The firm line of independence ran deep in our young minds and hearts and thus was well marked within our relationship unto death us do part. We didn’t think we were being mean or uncaring or inconsiderate. We were newly married American professionals who went to church and suffered first world problems.
But God met us in the center of that line some 15 years ago and began to open our eyes, unclench our fingers and breathe life and love upon our hearts. He’s still renewing our minds and restoring our hearts. Humbly, we’ve accepted His invitation to “Come and Learn” under His graceful tutelage.
And so I say “thank you, my dear man, for knowing how to make coffee and for putting it in just the right cup, and sometimes joining me with your own cup and a morning chat.”
“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”
1 Corinthians 10:31 NIV
Hugs from the fun couple until next time…
Randy and Lisa
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