I know it’s rather cliche to say that marriage has it’s ups and downs but I’ll say it anyway, “Marriage has its ups and downs.” DB and I have been married a bit over 12 1/2 years. So far, we’ve had a very good marriage. We did encounter a rough patch about six years ago [...]
You know you’ve waited your whole life to see a singing can of Spam:
Oh. You want to know the story behind the singing can of Spam? Here goes…
My Christmas gift to DB this year was a pair of tickets to see Monty Python’s Spamalot. I was really excited about the gift because he’s a little [...]
I haven’t done a marriage post in awhile, just haven’t been terribly inspired, until this morning. I read something on a blog that raised my marital strife hackles. I’m not going to link it because I don’t want to appear to be “dissin’” the writer, it’s just that what they wrote reminded me a little [...]
You know those days in October when the sky is the deepest blue you have ever seen with the piercing yellow sun high in the sky illuminating the brightest orange, purple, yellow and red leaves you have ever seen on a tree. It’s warm but not humid with a slight breeze turning those colored [...]
One of my favorite features of NPR is the essay series called, This I Believe. Last week, an essay by a journalist from Athens, Ohio caught my attention. The title of the essay, A Marriage That’s Good Enough by Corinne Colbert, was intriguing to me since I try to regularly write about marriage here. I [...]
I won’t name any names but he sort of looks like this….
::whispers:: happy birthday, david! ::whispers::
Maybe I should make this part of my disclaimer, but I thought I’d put it out here as a preface to the marriage post that immediately follows.
When I wrote The Great Housework Debate, it was hard for me to not “look” longingly at someone else’s situation and wish it for my own. And I imagine [...]
My first order of business after David and I were married was to change my name on all necessary documents. One of the first places I went was my credit union and while I made the changes, I also put David’s name on the account and made it joint. David still had an account somewhere [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Ivy had a brief post about how she was trying to write a Home-Ec 101 post on getting your husband to help with the housework. It really is a conundrum of problem. Division of household duties is high on the list of problems that couples experience. I perused three Internet [...]
On this blog I will occassionally write regarding matters of marriage. There are a few things you as the reader should know.
1. I am not a licensed therapist. While I do hold a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Virginia Tech, I have no formal training in marriage therapy. I hope to one day [...]
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