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Getting More Flexibility in Your Schedule

What single parent could not use more flexibility? The less rigidity we have in terms of when we need to be to work, what we have to do with our daily schedule and other realities of life, the more we can meet the needs of our families and feel in control of our own lives. What can a person do, however, in order to get MORE flexibility into his or her schedule? For many of us, the biggest piece of our lives that eats up “set time” is our work and our jobs. If you have to punch a time … Continue reading →

Do You Deserve To Be Happy?

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Do you deserve to be happy? Are you sure? More often than not, when we’re unhappy with our choices and our lives, it’s because we don’t think we deserve to be happy. When something bad happens, we may call it karma, we may call it fate, we may call it an unfortunate coincidence, but if we don’t think we deserve to be happy – sometimes we think that bad thing happened because we deserved it. Good Marriages Don’t Just Happen When we don’t think we deserve to be happy, chances are we spend a lot of time sabotaging ourselves. We … Continue reading →

Wives Who Work From Home – Working May Help Your Marriage

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We’ve been talking a lot about wives who work from home. This is a subject that is near and dear to my heart. After all, I’m a wife who works from home. I’ve been a wife who works outside the home. I’ve been a wife who works at home. I’ve been a stay at home mom and I’ve been wife and mom who went to school. I have great things to say about all of the above. Working May Help Your Marriage Let me be honest about something, I enjoy being a mom. I enjoy being a wife. I love … Continue reading →

The Marriage Blog Week in Review for Dec 23-29

Whew! What a week! We started with the roll into Christmas and we’re ending it counting down to the New Year. Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve and we’ll be officially counting down the last few hours until 2007 is born. So let’s take a look at our last week of 2006 here in the marriage blog and the articles that we wrote to share with you. If you missed anything this week with the holidays, this is your chance to catch up on all of that. Saturday, December 23 We marked the approach of the end of the year with … Continue reading →

On Being Flexible

Heather nailed it. I was going to add a comment below her article on Flexible Schedules, but I had so much to say, I decided to write a page about it. Flexibility in schedules, routines, and frankly, in all things, is imperative in my marriage. My husband’s work schedule can get really crazy at times, and there are occasions where I have no idea when or if he’ll be home or out of town. It makes planning things rather difficult. I have to admit this has been a source of stress for me. Having once been a little on the … Continue reading →

Flexible Schedule the Key to a Happy Marriage?

One of the great parts about working at home is that I can be here for my daughter on a regular basis. I’m here when she wakes up in the morning and I’m here when she comes home from school. There are other benefits from this flexible schedule – that benefit is the ability to support my husband’s more rigid schedule. I will not say his is more demanding nor that he works harder than I do – but he has fewer options. Flexible Scheduling For my husband, the work day must begin no later than 9 a.m. and it’s … Continue reading →

Are You An Inventive Wife?

The other day a PR rep contacted me about an upcoming contest geared towards moms (or any woman): the Whirlpool brand Mother of Invention Grant Program. She thought it might be of interest to Families.com readers, since they are primarily women. Smart PR rep! After all, how many times have I (or perhaps even yourself) heard married women friends say things like, “I wish there was an X to help me deal with my husband (kids, job, life) better/faster/with less muss and fuss.” Heck, even I’ve said something like that when I wished I could create a PMS pill for … Continue reading →

A Day in This Military Wife’s Life

I thought long about tonight’s entry but figured since this is a blog about military families why not do one on a daily look at the life of one. Before I begin I want to add this is in no way saying this is how every military family is, some families have no children while others have one or more, some have working moms while others stay at home and some even have additional family members living with them for a while, so all of these schedules would definitely look different. If you are a military family member I’d love … Continue reading →

Laugh, Cry, Kiss Your Problems Goodbye

Having a hard time lately? One of the best pieces of advice I have seen for coping with communication problems and disconnect in a marriage is to go out and have a good time. You may be looking skeptically at this, but I’ve known two couples who went to a couples weekend to work on their problems. They spent four days at a resort where they thought they were going to spend the weekend delving into every part of their problems and confronting the ugliness that has become their marriage. A Night on the Town The first step they were … Continue reading →

A Year of Potential Dreams

Do you know what this year is? No, not the number 2007 – it’s the beginning of the year and the rest of the year is spread out in front of you and it’s packed full of potential. One of the problems that confronts the majority of us as we get older and more mired down in responsibilities and obligations that we forget that we can make our own opportunities and we can make our dreams come true. That’s what this year is for you and your spouse – this is a year the two of you can make your … Continue reading →