From the category archives:

Loving Marriage

The Art of Loading the Dishwasher, an Unexpected Commentary on Life

June 18, 2010

I love to load the dishwasher! It is the one household task that I can do breathlessly without thought, consideration or effort. I could stand in my kitchen all day and load and reload our beautiful stainless steel GE domestic device. I’m quite good at it; my husband gave up loading the dishwasher years ago, [...]

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Lilacs, Love and a Little Marriage Inspiration

May 29, 2010

We’ve spent the last few weekend puttering around the house; doing yard work, creating new gardens, spreading grass seed, planting bulbs, trees and flowers and of course a little spring cleaning. While I was working in the backyard, I stopped to cut these lilacs and bring  them inside the house. As I was arranging them, [...]

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How to Find a Spouse – What’s Your Story?

May 11, 2010

Recently I have been looking through my archieves and have noticed that one of my first posts is also one of my most viewed posts: My Dating Story: How to find a husband, a husband worth keeping… Or at Least How I Landed Mine outlines the steps I took that helped me find my husband, [...]

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A Sunday Morning Laugh: After the honeymoon is over – the better marriage blanket

May 2, 2010
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The Importance of Quality Time in Marriage: Some ideas for your next date night.

April 26, 2010

Sometimes life gets in the way… days go by, even weeks or months and then you realize your marriage is lacking some quality time. As a wife who (for the time being) works full time and is married to man that often travels for work I find myself spending a lot of my quality time… [...]

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Marriage Under Stress: Do you and your spouse cope differently in times of stress?

April 19, 2010

This week I had rather life changing news at work, my entire department is being eliminated – my job will soon no longer exist. This was to say the least shocking, stressful and scary. In my life, I’ve had bad news before illness, death and heartbreak, but I’ve never been the recipient of bad news [...]

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Privacy in Marriage, How Much is Too Much Information?

April 6, 2010

This past weekend, I was watching the clip below that features Tori Spelling on the Today Show, talking about what it’s like to have the details of her marriage on public display and it made me think; marriage exhibitionism seems to be a current theme in our culture. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, [...]

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Loving Marriage: How remarrying saved my marriage

March 30, 2010

The first year of our marriage was not an easy one. As we were approaching our first wedding anniversary it seemed as though everything in our life was going wrong and every single aspect of everyday life had become a pressure point. We owned our own home but chose to rent out the top level [...]

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Loving Marriage: Married With Forever in Mind?

March 22, 2010

Do you live everyday questioning whether your marriage will end? Or do you live everyday as if your marriage will last forever? If you do conduct each day as if your marriage is for eternity, does that mean you take your marriage for granted? Or if you are constantly evaluating the state of your marriage, [...]

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Loving Marriage: Communicating Intimacy

March 15, 2010

Wikipedia defines intimacy as, the feeling of being in a close personal association and belonging together. A feeling of belonging, isn’t that what we’re all looking for when we get married? To commit to our other half… the one we love, get our piece of paper, the piece of a paper that says where we [...]

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