My Own Thoughts

Category: Marriage

  • Moved Websites

    DH moved a lot of websites for me. Some posts I moved myself because I wanted them. I haven’t finished those, so more may yet show up here. I’m very grateful for the support of an amazing husband.

  • Thoughts from Our Wedding

    I told R that I was going to be content. His definition of content is “giving up for good enough, because it takes more energy than you want to expend to do something else.” My definition of content is “a decision to accept and rejoice in whatever circumstances and work in and through and beyond…

  • Conflicting Marital Advice

    We went to Jon and Angela’s baby shower (boy) the day after Christmas. Since the day before Christmas Eve is our official wedding anniversary, I told Jon we had been married 25 years now. He asked what advice we would give. I told him, “Hold on.” Don’t let go. Don’t give up. Don’t give in.…

  • Thanks-giving P and Q

    P: people popcorn porcupines, since they are so amazing partners palaces pink, especially hot and neon purple, any shade, though royal purple is my favorite of the purples posies poems poetry poets passion participation principles portability promises, especially those which are kept pumpkins and pumpkin cheesecake made by Bolivia paint paintings painters pals pen pals…

  • Divorce is Bad for Kids

    Divorce Plagues Kids’ Social, Academic Lives for Years: once divorce proceedings began, children fell behind and failed to catch up for at least two years.

  • Marry an Educated Woman, Live Longer

    Reuter’s says: In a study, researchers found that a woman’s education was a stronger factor in her husband’s risk of dying over the next decade or so than the man’s own level of education. And a husband’s social class based on his occupation had a greater influence on a woman’s survival than her own occupational…

  • Wife 1.0

    Dear Tech Support: Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0. I soon noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of space and valuable resources. In addition, Wife 1.0 installed itself into all other programs and now monitors all other system activity. Applications such as Poker…

  • Not Fighting Words

    “I don’t love you anymore. I’m not sure I ever did.” His words came at me like a speeding fist, like a sucker punch, yet somehow in that moment I was able to duck. And once I recovered and composed myself, I managed to say, “I don’t buy it.” Because I didn’t. He drew back…

  • Okay, I’ve been reading Fail Blog.

    see more Fail Blog This is just… funny. sad. twisted. terrible. Oh my.

  • Hugs help

    – Couples may be able to enhance one another’s health by being more physically affectionate with one another, new research in Psychosomatic Medicine shows. Couples who underwent training in “warm touch enhancement” and practiced the technique at home had higher levels of oxytocin, also known as the “love hormone” and the “cuddle chemical,” while their…

  • Romance is alive and well in Houston, Texas.

    If you don’t believe me, go read my husband’s blog post. Yes, that’s a picture of me.

  • Happy anniversary, honey!

    Twenty years ago today we made a lifetime commitment to each other. I never expected that being married to someone could be so good. Thank you for twenty wonderful years.

  • What to do about poor relationships?

    People often keep repeating the same mistakes in relationships over and over again. A wise friend recommended these books for another friend of mine (and my sisters): Getting the love you want ; author: Hendrix The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert; author: Gottman

  • Love…

    Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. –Amy Bloom taken from Happy Catholic’s quote journal.

  • When did we fall in love?

    My husband was saying recently that we had love at first sight, because we met in June and got married in October. But actually, I know the weekend I fell in love with him. Probably even what we were doing at the time. It was the weekend of his best friend’s wedding. I knew the…

  • Happy anniversary, baby!

    19 years together. It’s been a fun ride. Hope we get another fifty or so.

  • Paradox

    Someone in England’s been carving heads, leaving them at folks’ places, and “no one” can solve the riddle. It’s in the BBC here. But I don’t see that “twinkle twinkle little star does love blaze less from afare” is a riddle. It’s a question. And the answer is either a clear NO or a clear…

  • Female Porn

    Or at least that’s what the presenter, Al Lowe, calls it. Totally work friendly. And by the way, at least three of those I get at home all the time!

  • Okay, that’s a little scary.

    I got on ichat with my hubby and left a string of comments, after he’d said hi back, that went like this: Okay. I thought I would get on and read my blogs. Haven’t done that in a few days. Haven’t had time. Another of the bloggers I read had a spouse walk out on…

  • A Few Words on Sex

    Sigfried, Carl & Alfred has a great collection of comments on sex. My favorite, because it redeems me thorougly since I have never been guilty of this, though knowing my reading habits one might suppose I have been… “My girlfriend always laughs during sex —no matter what she’s reading.” – Steve Jobs, found[er] Apple Computer…