Thank you for being part of Assume Love. Today, we celebrate our 20th anniversary.
Marriage tip of the day: Be that spouse who enthusiastically supports even your mate’s crazy hobbies and goals that you never want to participate in with them.
Like my husband. Happy Valentine’s Day to all.
Happy New Year! Let me begin with some gratitude. This has been an especially tough year for me, and I want to say a huge thank you to my husband of 23 years for picking up the slack on so many of my chores and for all his kindnesses as I dealt with my challenges. I have great hopes for 2026, now that I am well again and moving past the crushing grief of this year’s loss of another four...
Who put the government in charge of marriage? Why do we need a license to marry? Why do we need a judge to divorce? In the US and quite possibly every other country, the government decides who is married and who is not. And it really doesn’t care whether you love each other, only whether you make a commitment that benefits your fellow citizens. In return, it offers you two some benefits and...
The summer after my sophomore year in college, I followed the man I’d met and fallen in love with ten weeks earlier to Bakersfield. We were talking at the park and found ourselves planning a fun 50th anniversary celebration. Only then did it occur to us that we were going to get married, because we would not know when to hold this wonderful celebration if we didn’t. Eleven and a half...
It’s Valentine’s Day, 2022. And the Assume Love blog is now Sweet Sixteen. I published the first post on Valentine’s Day in 2006. I hope that it’s helped you celebrate more happy Valentines Days since then. Happy seventh anniversary to my cousin’s daughter (my first cousin once removed) and her marvelous second husband. What a great choice of wedding days. And (this...
