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How to Bottle-feed a Breastfed Baby

While we all know that breast is best, there may be times when you need to rely on using a bottle of breastmilk or formula. Sometimes getting a breastfed baby to take a bottle can be quite a challenge. Here are some tips that may be able to make the whole thing a lot easier. Enlist the help of an experienced bottle feeder. This may make it easy to accept the bottle. The experienced feeder will give the bottle with confidence, and the baby will sense this. Also, it is easier if the mother doesn’t give the first few bottles, … Continue reading →

How to Fight Fairly

Marriage comes with arguments even with the most loving couples. Two separate people have two separate opinions sometimes. Fighting while not pleasant isn’t necessarily bad for you marriage, as long as you fight fair. Here are some tips. Never Hit Below the Belt As the person closest to your spouse, you have some a pretty lethal arsenal of weaponry that you could potentially throw at your spouse in times of anger. But hitting below the belt on sensitive topics will only betray the trust your spouse has for you, not win the argument. It is tactics such as these that … Continue reading →

How to Deal with Time Spent Apart

I remember reading somewhere that Paul and Linda McCartney never spent a night apart from each other during the entire length of their marriage. While I don’t know if this is true or not, I think it would be a wonderful goal for a couple. Still, there are inevitable times when you have to be physically separated from each other. Maybe one spouse is in the armed forces, or has to take an extended business trip or has to care for family far away. Whatever the reason, it isn’t usually easy to be apart. Here are some tips on dealing … Continue reading →

Yours, Mine and Ours – Having a Baby in a Blended Family pt. 1

When you blend a family, you often wind up with a much larger family, because some of the kids are his and some of them are hers. But what happens when you are ready for an “ours”? Having a baby in a blended family can be tricky and being sensitive to all those involved is important. Here are some tips to hopefully help you figure out what works for your family. Give It Time Giving it time works in two ways. The first way is that you try to remember that you have a new family to take care of. … Continue reading →

The Early Bird Gets the…Nookie?

Earlier this month Lyn wrote an article posing the question “What do you do when you are not in the mood?” I chuckled at her title because what wife hasn’t had that dilemma? However, I didn’t think about it again until I was reading a recent copy of Woman’s World. One of their health articles had six tips for getting more vroom in the bedroom. The tips ranged from getting more exercise to soaking up a little extra sunshine to eating certain intimacy-boosting foods. But it was one of the sidebars that really caught my eye. As long as I’ve … Continue reading →

Are We Really Trying to Change Them?

It is easy to think of our relationship with our child as being completely different and separate from any of our other relationships. After all, for many of us it is more intense, more unconditional, and longer-lasting than any other relationship we might have had. In reality, however, we can apply the same rules that we learn and use in our other relationships–marriages, partnerships, coworkers, friends, and family–to our interactions with our children. One that can seem a little fuzzy is whether “parenting” and guiding our children to adulthood means that we are really trying to change them? One of … Continue reading →

Respecting Each Other’s Views

Clearly, you and your spouse are not going to agree on everything. You may even be rather shocked at times to learn how your husband or wife feels about a particular issue. If it is something the two of you have never really discussed, you may have assumed that he or she felt the same way you do concerning the matter. This happens often in new relationships, because you simply cannot discuss every issue known to man. However, it does help to talk about those issues that are very important to you before getting deeply involved, and especially before getting … Continue reading →

Is the Honeymoon Over?

There comes a point in most relationships that forces us to take pause. It is the moment when one comes to the realization that their relationship is not perfect. No, most do not enter into a marriage expecting perfection but let’s face it, the beginning of a relationship is full of excitement and passion and butterflies in your stomach. Once you and your partner begin to settle in to your daily routines and life begins to present challenges or obstacles each partner begins to see the other in a different light. In most cases one would hope that through these … Continue reading →

Rediscover Your Spiritual Side

Are you a spiritual person? If you are, then you can appreciate that spirituality can help you during difficult situations. But let me clarify a moment what I mean by spirituality. In my mind, spirituality is both the practice of religion and the belief in religion. I don’t believe one has to attend a regular religious event in order to be spiritual. I know many people who are spiritual and they would not term themselves as religious. Spirituality in Marriage I’ve discussed the topic of spirituality in marriage before. But today I want to look at it from a slightly … Continue reading →

The Answer Should Never Be I Don’t Know

If that’s the answer, what’s the question? The question, in this case, should be why are we still married? The answer should never be I don’t know. Now I can give you any number of reasons why you might still be married – but the only one who can answer that question is you. Why Am I Still Married? It may sound hokey, it may sound corny – but I made a vow and a commitment and even during the hardest of times, I haven’t forgotten this. The idea of getting a divorce because we were angry at each other … Continue reading →