It was three days into our honeymoon when my husband and I had one of the worst fights in the history of our marriage. We had a brilliant idea to rent a canoe off the shore of our lodge in Canada, but we both were novices at rowing. The person who rented us our canoe…
How you treat your family is how you’ll eventually treat your future husband. And how he treats his family, or those closest to him, is how a guy will eventually treat his future wife.” My mom’s words still echoed in my head after the mother-daughter powwow we’d had the night before. It’s easy to…
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There’s a simple formula that I use with clients in my counseling practice: Get you, be you, give you. This is the life process of maturing, and is a helpful mantra to live by. The problems occur when we try and do this formula in reverse, because one can’t give what one doesn’t have. We…
In the weeks that led up to our wedding, my soon-to-be husband Ted informed our friends, family, and anyone who would listen of his impending death. “Death?” you ask. Yep, death. Death, that is, to his single self. You know, the self that could buy a new Nord Electro on a whim. Or stay up…
