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What I’ve Learned About Marriage and Love
What I’ve Learned About Marriage and Love I’ve written a lot about my children. In fact, the original title of this blog was Parenting With a Dash of Inspiration. I’ve included my husband in many posts, but I haven’t written much about our relationship. There’s a reason for that… It scares me. Even though I’ve been with my husband for a long time, I never felt like I could ever offer marriage advice. Marriage is tough. I’m not an expert. But we are still together after twenty-nine years so I thought I could be brave, open up a little bit and share what I’ve learned. The Beginning I suppose the…
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She Said, He Said: Our Views On Marriage After 25 Years
When I told Eric we should write a he said, she said post on marriage I was half kidding. He thought it was a brilliant idea and asked when his post was due. Alarms were going off in my head. Abandon ship! I didn’t really want to delve deep into a twenty-five year relationship. Could I even remember what I thought about marriage when I met Eric at nineteen years old? Unfortunately yes.
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Love
Love. I feel it deeply for people, animals, nature, life, but I have a lot of trouble expressing my love in any other way except through writing. As much as I love and cherish my husband and children I have to remind myself to say the words, “I love you.” Imagine my surprise when I was doing an author visit with 6th graders and as the students switched classes the teacher called out the door, “Love you!” Wow, what a teacher! As soon as she said it a warm feeling overcame me and I knew her students were lucky to have her. She probably knows that some of her students may have never heard those…
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Marriage and the Mountain
Marriage and the Mountain When I was young I used to look out my bedroom window at night and gaze at the bright moon. I would think right then, at that very moment, the man I was going to one day marry was looking at the same moon. When the time was right we would meet, fall in love and live happily ever after. Then I met him he said he was never getting married or having children. It wasn’t as I envisioned but was a challenge I accepted. Along the way I learned a lot about love and marriage. I discouraged my daughter from believing in the fairy tale…
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Marriage Advice
My sister recently tied the knot. Being the much older sibling that I am and having been in a relationship with the same man for twenty-two years, married for sixteen, I thought I should offer some marriage advice. Then I thought, why stop at just me – why not ask other women who have been married for many years what advice they would give? And that’s exactly what I did. The following passages are brilliant words of wisdom on marriage. Me: Understand that as with all relationships marriage takes effort. Like a plant that will wilt without love and caring, so will a marriage. When you get mad it’s best to walk…
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Family Bonding Over the Holidays
One of the greatest sounds in the world is the laughter of my children – together. Last night I was upstairs working, Eric was playing his computer game and our two children were downstairs watching a movie and laughing hysterically. I felt the warm glow that mothers feel when their children are bonding and kind to one another. I finished writing and went down to join them. Arielle was lounging on a chair and Kai was across from her on the couch. A small table sat in between. I plopped down next to Kai and we all watched, Waterboy. A commercial came on and Kai muted the TV. Arielle began telling…
