Sometimes, it takes a third party to point out the simplest things. Not that merging the finances of two is simple. However, with the right mindset and a few bits of advice the process can move right along. Get on the same page with these five points: There are unlimited things to spend money on…so…
The last time I wrote, I posed this question: Wouldn’t it be nice if our first inclination was to love our spouse in the way he or she needed to be loved? Let’s probe that a bit deeper. First, wouldn’t if be nice if our first inclination was to love another? Secondly, wouldn’t it be…
My husband’s social faux pas are few and faint, as in hardly noticeable. Which makes the one he committed last week rather noteworthy. We met at a local coffee shop with a couple at their request to discuss their personality differences. They are dating (only d-a-t-i-n-g). The young woman is a friend of ours, and…
You could say my husband Ted, at times, is a Christian fatalist. Oh, not the type who eventually goes agnostic, as one writer asserts can happen, but the happy sort. The kind who insists that his Type-A prone bride anticipate something will inevitably go wrong at their wedding…and does it all with a smile and…
I was sitting in the driver’s seat of my car. My husband was replacing one of the front brakes. “Pump the brake pedal until it gets hard to push.” He called out. I’d pump the brake and then hold it until he told me to release it. This procedure went on several more times before…
