I have been writing up a storm in response to questions posted recently on an April 2012 blog post of mine: One Last Stand Before Divorce. I hope you will pay a visit if you’re wondering about “I love you” vs. “I am in love with you.” Also if you are separated and hoping to get back together again or on the verge of separating. It’s next to impossible to feel...
Alcohol relaxes us. This can be a great thing for your marriage if you’re anxious about something that might go badly at work tomorrow. You’ll be more ready for quality time together or some much needed physical touch. If it relaxes you so much that you forget to pick up your spouse at the airport, it can make a mess of things. Alcohol also reduces our inhibitions. This is wonderful...
I received this note recently from a reader of this blog. She gave me permission to share it with you. The income from their small start-up business has taken a dip recently. They are blowing through savings faster than they would like, and things get rather tense at times for them, as they do for many of us. Another great ‘assume love’ story….for mother’s day my husband...
Barbara Sher, author of I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was and several other wonderful books, says this frequently. Praise makes us brave. Want to nudge your partner to tackle a big project or make a challenging change? Praise gives a much bigger nudge than criticism does. Oh, how I have to remind myself of this, often in mid-criticism. I give myself a pat on the back for remembering...
I must thank wonderful Amna Ahmad for a brief post on her Facebook page a couple weeks ago, the day before my birthday. It read: My favorite definition of art has always been Tolstoy’s: art is infection. I am utterly infected by this book. I’m reading it, I can’t breathe, I feel sick, I can’t stop reading. So I bought Wave as my birthday gift to myself and read it in...
