Posted in Meaningful Relationships on Sep 6th, 2008
This week my husband and I celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary. Greg and I have come a long way since those first, clueless days of early marriage. For much of that time, my mother has lived with us, first as a retired person living on too small of an income to be on her own […]
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Marriage is the supportive and uplifting bond between two lives, two hearts, and two egos. I have found, though, that egos don’t always like to bond. Control, maybe; get attention, perhaps; but bond in a way that uplifts? Not always. After 14 years, my husband Greg and I have found a few ways to deal […]
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Posted in Meaningful Relationships on Apr 29th, 2008
On our honeymoon trip in 1993, my husband and I visited one stop along the way called Dysfunction Junction. It is not on any map and you won’t see it on your car GPS, but there are a lot of them around. On that trip, we traveled across several states staying with family and friends […]
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Posted in Meaningful Relationships on Apr 14th, 2008
My husband and I learned early on in our relationship that we both carried a lot of baggage into our marriage. He thought leaving the house a mess gave me something to feel good about cleaning up like Aunt Bee in The Andy Griffith Show and that slapping me on the butt in public showed […]
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Posted in Meaningful Relationships on Mar 10th, 2008
True love in most people’s mind is nothing like the real thing. Take any romantic movies with the greatest love stories you can think of and they cannot compare to real, true love. Not even Shakespeare came close. How do I know? My husband and I have seen it with our own eyes. And just […]
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