Welcome to Saturday the 16th and a new feature for the Marriage Blog where we take a moment to review the stories we shared with you this week. We’ll give you a quick rundown on the day by day of the news stories and more that Sherry and I shared with you.
September 9
Sherry shared with a great idea for Wedding Favors: Sealed with a Kiss that you can make yourself and it doesn’t cost much to create something so pretty. We also talked about Marriage in the News: Arranged Marriage Fraud about the immigration marriage scheme that was running out of Northern Virginia. Also in Marriage in the News: A Jilted Bride Makes Lemonade from Lemons by taking her wedding plans and turn it into a charity event after discovering that her fiancé was having an affair. Finally, we talked about Marriage Mythology: The Perils of Pauline.
September 10
For Sunday, we talked about Marriage Tips: You Can’t Take It Back and how what you say is out there, thoughtless or not and you can’t take those phrases back. We also talked about Family & Marriage Grandparents Day and how we should honor the parents of our parents and why they are so important to our family lives and our children.
September 11
Sherry wrote a tremendous piece on Where Were You On September 11th, and how her parents generation was one that would never forget where they were when Kennedy was shot and ours will never forget where we were on September 11, 2001. I talked about Five Years Later: Together We Stand and how we learned to unite on that day in 2001 and how those lessons can continue to serve us today.
September 12
Sherry offered you Three Tips: Reconnect With Your Spouse and what to do when the novelty and newness of marriage wears off and how sometimes it just takes a little effort to reconnect with your spouse. We also talked about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and how relationships may be doomed to repeat the same mistakes if we forget what we learned — even from failed relationships.
September 13
Old Wounds Can Damage Your Relationship if you and your spouse do not talk about what is bothering you. If you harbor resentment for years, your spouse may not even realize what it is you are upset about. Sherry talked about What is Marriage Education and what it means to improve and enhance the skills we need to learn when it comes to getting married. We talked about To Love and To Cherish: Not To Be In Love and To Court and what those vows mean as well as ideas about Planning an Autumn Wedding.
September 14
On the Job Training: No Experience Required and how we can plan and commit to complicated relationships that will define our lives as we move forward. Sherry offered advice on Selecting a Marriage Education program.
September 15
TGIF! This was a bit of a tough day as we weren’t able to get in as regularly as we might have liked. We did talk about ways you can Cherish the One That You Love with exercises that highlight attributes you value in your spouse as well as information on how we categorize The 5 Most Incompatible Relationships and why I do and do not necessarily agree with that information.
What was your favorite story this week?