About your marriage, that is. You can. The three secrets I discovered a day too late put a lot of power in your hands. Secret #1: Assume Love. When something happens that makes you wonder if your wife has no respect for you, if your husband no longer cares about you, or whether you ought to stay together, Assume Love. Your lizard brain, the one that protected so many of your ancestors who lived...
Michelle Obama Says Laugh with Your Spouse
Michelle Obama says a lot of laughing and finding ways to have fun together keeps her bond with President Barak Obama strong, according to Yahoo News. They have been married for 18 years, balancing two careers, one of them in some pretty tough political arenas, and parenthood. Humor and playfulness is one of the Transcendence strengths studied in the VIA (Values in Action) Classification of...
Go Meet Your Friends for a Beer!
Agi Smith is interviewing folks going through divorce for the Huffington Post. Yesterday’s interview was with a NJ man who now must fly to another state every other weekend to maintain a relationship with his 10-year-old son. He says he absolutely, absolutely needs love in his life but oddly misses nothing about his marriage except what his son has lost. What he claims to like best about...
A Reminder to Keep Your Marriage Up-to-Date
It was a huge hit when I had been a widow for just three years, but I had not heard it in a long time. Tears streamed down my face as I listened to Garth Brooks singing his first #1 hit again today. If tomorrow never comes, will she know how much I loved her? … And if my time on earth were through And she must face the world without me Is the love I gave her in the past Gonna be enough to...
Why Be Married? For a Lot of Little Things
Just saw this ad from Whitcoulls in New Zealand. It brought a big smile to my face.
I hope it brightens your day, too. Happy New Year!