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Finding Support from Your Friends

We’ve talked extensively about how important it is that we keep friends outside of our marriage.  And that doesn’t mean that we have friends who can’t also be friends with our spouses.  It just means that we look for emotional connections with more people than just our spouses.  I know it’s very true for me; my two best friends give me things my husband never could, and not just things like watching the six-hour BBC “Pride and Prejudice.” It’s a real romantic notion – both in the love and in the story sense of the word – that our spouses … Continue reading →

Buying Your Spouse’s Chairs

Years ago, I watched the movie “Phenomenon,” starring John Travolta and Keira Sedgwick. It’s about a man who is blessed with incredible abilities to remember and to figure out complex problems. That’s not important to the part of the movie I want to share with you today. Keira’s character makes wooden rockers out of branches and twigs, and they aren’t at all comfortable. She tries to tell them at the local general store, but just can’t get them to move. When John’s character starts to fall in love with her, he goes into the store about once a week and … Continue reading →

How Many Races Are In Your Family Tree?

The way that Americans perceive race today is very different then how our ancestors would have defined it. Is there more than one race in your family tree? Learning more about the race of your ancestors can be complex, depending on the time the person lived, and the way race was defined on certain documents. Students who are in college right now make up the largest group of mixed-race people of any generation to come of age, so far. According to the Pew Research Center, who used data from 2008 and 2009, one in seven new marriages is between spouses … Continue reading →

What Works on the Court and in Marriage

Playing tennis can teach us something about marriage. When Mick and I partner each other at tennis and the opposition drops a short ball I tend to say ‘up, up, up’. He always found it helpful when we played competition tennis. The number of ‘ups’ was indicative of how fast he needed to move on the court. Even though we’re playing social tennis now and enjoy it, we’re still out there to try and win. Throughout the game we encourage each one when one of us hits a good shot and encourage each other to keep going when either of … Continue reading →

Lying and Your Home Business

Teeny lies, little white lies, and big whoppers–do lies have a place in business? Well, pick up any newspaper and read any business section and you would think that lies and business go hand-in-hand. But, what about in your small, home-based business? Will telling even the smallest lies help or hurt your business overall (not to mention, how will they affect your karma?). When you read those business articles and reports on CEOs who seem to get away with murder, not to mention plenty of lies along the way, it can start to seem like lies are just as much … Continue reading →

Marriage Laws: Maryland & Washington D.C.

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Just over the Pennsylvania border is the state of Maryland and beyond that is Washington D.C. While Washington D.C. is not an official state, it does however have its own marriage laws which we will explore in this installment of our series looking at marriage laws across the United States. A few days into this and we haven’t even left the East Coast, but we’ve reached the Mid-Atlantic, so we should be heading west any day now. Maryland Maryland marriage laws are an interesting mix. As with many states, you do not have to be a resident of the state … Continue reading →

Privacy in the Modern Marriage – Time & Technology Make Us Vulnerable

Privacy is a privilege that many of us cling to in a time when emails can be transmitted from one computer to another in nanoseconds. Privacy in the modern marriage is based more on trust than ever before. You can pick up your spouse’s cell phone and in short order have access to their email, their text messages and even the stored list of phone numbers. Privacy in the age of the Internet is a complicated issue. For even the most sensitive of data, you just require a few key numbers to enter and most married couples know their spouse’s … Continue reading →

The Marriage Week in Review for December 9-15

Here we are, just over 2 weeks into December and closing in on Christmas. December started off hectic for me and doesn’t show any signs of slowing down – though my vow to keep things simple has actually paid off a great deal. Yesterday was the capper to the week as we celebrated the holidays at my daughter’s school, gave out gifts and delivered gently used items to charity and more. My husband is back to work and while he is still not 100% recovered, he is doing great and enjoying getting around more. We’ve got a lot to do … Continue reading →

Is Marriage ‘the’ Key to a Better Society?

If you were to take the complexity of the problems in our world today, it would take days and days to tackle the breakdown of poverty, the ‘growing’ underclass and the lack of cohesiveness in our society today. I’ve even seen papers written about the fact that the breakdown of our person-to-person relations is in direct proportion to our growing technologies. It began, in essence, with the industrial revolution as we abandoned small town ties and the bonds created by sharing traditions and needs with rural communities. The transition from rural to urban diminished those ties and the transition from … Continue reading →

A Time to All Things – Recommitting to your Marriage

You are likely thinking that you are already committed to your marriage, why do you need to recommit? There’s a line in a song that was released several years ago by a group called Band-Aid. It was a group of British singers working together to create a single that would donate all of its profits to the starving children in Africa. There was a line in the song that has always jumped out at me and no matter where I have been or what I have been doing – it jumps out at me, especially at Christmastime. It’s Christmas time, … Continue reading →