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Are You Among the Average?

According to statistical data compiled by John S Croucher, professor of statistics Macquarie University, the amount of time the average person in USA spends watching TV is 35 hours a week. Add to those another 2 hours watching taped TV Shows , 22 minutes for online videos and 4 minutes of mobile videos and that adds up to quite a whack out of the week. So Mick and I decided to conduct our own little experiment and add up our TV watching. It doesn’t even come close to that. And a lot depends on the time of year. In footy … Continue reading →

Two Important Thoughts about Marriage

Two things I read today stuck me and they both came from different sources. One was from the novel The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks. Sparks is one of my favorite writers because he writes about love, abiding, forever love, not love that is here today and gone tomorrow as in many of the current Hollywood movies. This book is no exception. The line I reponded to as true was, ‘she was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.’ Certainly this is true both … Continue reading →

TV and Marriage

Is TV affecting the state of our marriages today? This was a question Mick posed when we were watching a TV show recently. His comment was ‘maybe people see so much of this sort of thing on TV with so many marriages breaking up so easily or being abusive and negative situations that they think that’s what marriage is.’ It’s a fair comment. For example can you think of any current TV show that presents a happily married couple that is in a loving and stable long term marriage? Off hand I can’t think of one. Turn on practically any … Continue reading →

Marriage Means Adjustments

Being married means making adjustments. It means adapting to living with another person and considering, and where possible accommodating their interests, likes and dislikes as well as your own. This is important in bed as well as in other places. When we first got married Mick said, ‘Why do you want to chat as soon as we get into bed?’ Having talking to a number of women it’s something more than a few of us are guilty of. I suspect it’s because when we get into bed, we start to replay the day in our minds. We’re thinking about what … Continue reading →

Who Controls the Remote?

Who controls the remote in your house? My guess is in most cases it is the man. That’s certainly true in our case, purely because I am a non technical woman who has trouble with machines. So this has been a conscious choice to let Mick take care of it. Some men seem loathe to part with it ever. The way the carry on has to be seen to be believed. I have known women complain they never get to watch a full show because as soon as an advertisement comes on the husband switches the channel. Of course I … Continue reading →

What Does Your DVD or TV Viewing Reflect about Your Marriage?

What does your DVD or TV viewing reflect about your marriage? Does it all tend to be one sided, watching what one person wants or is it a balance? In one home I know they have two TVS She watches what she wants in one room whole he watched what he wants in another. In another he watches TV one room. She reads a book in the bedroom. That’s something that rarely if ever happens in our house, mainly because we enjoy being together Recently I watched Brothers and Sisters while Mick read a book, as he’s less enamored of … Continue reading →