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Dealing with the Worrier- Part 2

Following on from yesterday, here are more suggestions about dealing with the worrier and tips how you can best help them. If you are a believer, pray for them. You don’t need to know exactly what the worries are to be able to pray for peace and settling. Better still if they are agreeable, is pray with them about their worrying. Again you don’t need to know what the worries are, unless they want to tell you. God knows. That’s all that matters. So encourage them to share if they want to but don’t hassle them if they don’t. Sometimes … Continue reading →

Dealing with the Worrier

Some of us by nature are worriers. It’s not something we do intentionally. It’s not something we plan. It just happens. It can be more a gender think at times, but often it’s just the way the person is wired. They worry as easily as they breathe. I know. I‘m a worrier, not as drastic as some people I’ve known over the years, but still a worrier. Sometimes these worries are valid, like worrying about the future, how I would cope without Mick if he died or if I got Alzheimer’s or some other dreaded disease. As you get older, … Continue reading →

Could You Trust Your Husband?

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I wonder how many Mother’s Day, anniversary or birthday presents husbands have bought for their wives end up tucked away in the back of a cupboard, never to see the light of day or on their way back to the shop? Could you trust your husband to buy you an item or clothing, a handbag, a piece of jewelry, a CD or book you would like? Mick constantly astounds friends and acquaintances of ours by being able to buy clothes for me that not only fit but look nice, that I feel comfortable wearing as they are colors and styles … Continue reading →

Short Changed

Christmas is supposedly a time of good will, but that’s often not what we see. Sometimes it can be people being harried and hassled and getting snappy at others. Others times it can be people trying to take advantage of others by hoping they’ll be busy enough or distracted enough to hope they won’t notice that they overcharged them. That happened to us while Christmas shopping twice yesterday. Was it con-incidence? I admit to being more than a little suspicious since neither shop was particularly busy at the time. It just seemed a little too convenient for my liking. In … Continue reading →

Selective Hearing

Husbands have selective hearing. It’s something many women complain about. It was highlighted recently by an author friend. She had been playing a radio interview with another author who both of us knows from online. At almost the precise moment the interview ended an email came though on the computer from this author being interviewed. ‘Who’s the email from?’ she asked the son sitting at the computer. He told her. ‘Oh do you correspond with her?’ her husband piped up, amazed. My author friend gave that roll of the eyes and groan all wives know when their other half comes … Continue reading →

Reflections of Life

If it’s true that what is on our TV screens and at the movies reflects life, then it is no wonder marriages are in trouble. What I see so often on TV and the movies are people who make decisions based on what they want and who never stop to consider the person they are in a relationship with or how their decision will affect them. Just recently Mick and I were watching a show where the woman made a decision about her job that was destined to impact on her relationship with her guy. Did she talk it over … Continue reading →

Exerting Patience

Patience is a commodity that is not often talked about these days. It is one that is necessary in marriage. That patience is that we need when marriage hits a rough spot as all marriages, no matter how good they are, do at times. We need patience when things are not going the way we would like or our spouse is not behaving as we would like or we are not able to do the things we want to do whether because of finances, family issues, illness or whatever it might be. This has been brought home to me again … Continue reading →

Trash Talk

Trash talk is the topic of today’s article. I’m looking at it in two different ways. One thing that was re-enforced to me with Mick sick all this week is that I don’t like putting the trash out. I don’t mind the paper and recycling bin so much, but dealing with all the other garbage and accompanying smells nearly makes me feel ill. It just makes me so grateful that he is the one who usually does this job. Early in a marriage it’s good to decide who does what jobs. Mick doesn’t worry about putting the trash out but … Continue reading →

Different Reactions

Sometimes you may find you and your intended may react to certain people and circumstances differently. You will need to decide if you marry whether this is going to be a problem and how you will resolve. It is far better to sort it out before you get married than leave it till after. It may just be a situation or relationship that is a deal breaker. Of course, even after you are married, you may find you and your spouse will react differently to a certain person or situation. I remember one time my daughter and I had to … Continue reading →

Concentrate on the Good

Yesterday, several friends were talking about a show they’d seen on TV that morning. It raised the point about what are the worst faults you spouse has in bed. People it seemed were quite happy to get on television and put their spouse down for their faults whether they be snoring or they had another annoying habits. One woman went on to list a number of faults her husband had. And then thought she‘d better stop in case he was watching the show. It’s a bit late then after she’d already aired all the secrets. I couldn’t help thinking what … Continue reading →