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The Way We Handle Our Emotions

If you haven’t learned this already, you will…the way men and women handle their emotions is very different. But knowing this and learning how to accept it are two different things. Of course, it doesn’t always have to do with the fact that men and women are different. Personalities and characteristics come into play as well. For instance, my husband is very laidback. It takes a lot to rattle his cage. In fact, this week we dealt with a behavior issue with one of our children that almost set me off into a fit. But as my husband witnessed the … Continue reading →

The Superhero and the Damsel

Does your man feel like a superhero? Like he can do anything in your eyes? If you think about it, men like to believe they are conquerors. They like to be viewed as someone who can go above and beyond your expectations. They want to be seen as strong, the one who comes to the rescue. My husband does this in a number of ways. He can open any jar, fix just about anything in our house and can find solutions to virtually any problem. If he could don a cape, I think he might. While most men like to … Continue reading →

Running Away, or Running Toward?

My parents divorced after twenty-six years. It threw our family into a tailspin, but after the dust settled and we started to look at patterns and how it all could have come about, we identified many contributing factors. I’d like to share some of those factors with you. My mother was raised in an abusive home. She left for a time to go to college, but she knew that marriage was the only way she’d be able to leave permanently. My father was raised with the expectation that he was to get married, but without a more clear goal, such … Continue reading →

The Ebb and Flow of Marriage

Like the tides that ebb and flow, so do marriages…seasons and times where things go down but then come back up again. Sometimes these ups and downs are caused by real troubles in life. It could be a job change, sickness, financial difficulties, rebellious children and other family problems. When life is on an even keel then we might feel like our marriage is flowing along smoothly. But there are other times in our marriage when the ebb and flow isn’t caused by obvious life challenges. Sometimes we go through moments in our marriage when we allow feelings to dictate … Continue reading →

Still the One

I love the song “You’re Still the One” by Shania Twain. It perfectly sums up the feelings I have about my marriage—because of our age difference (my husband was 34 and I was 19 when we got married) people thought we wouldn’t make it, and you know what, we did. We’re going on sixteen years at the end of the month, and we are even more in love now than we were at the time. He’s still the one I run to, the one that I belong to, and still the one I kiss good night, as the song says. … Continue reading →

Selective Hearing

Husbands have selective hearing. It’s something many women complain about. It was highlighted recently by an author friend. She had been playing a radio interview with another author who both of us knows from online. At almost the precise moment the interview ended an email came though on the computer from this author being interviewed. ‘Who’s the email from?’ she asked the son sitting at the computer. He told her. ‘Oh do you correspond with her?’ her husband piped up, amazed. My author friend gave that roll of the eyes and groan all wives know when their other half comes … Continue reading →

I’m In Love… With bumGenius Diapers

It took my husband and I quite awhile to decide which route we were going to take when it came to cloth diapers. After much research and deliberating, we decided on the bumGenius 3.0 One-Size Cloth Diapers. It may have been the best decision we’ve ever made. I can honestly say I don’t have a single complaint about these diapers. They are awesome. First of all, they are adorable. Yes, they are bulkier than disposables, but they come in an array of colors: yellow, orange, white, as well as different shades of green, pink, and blue. Our baby happens to … Continue reading →

Dear Heather … I’m Pregnant

Dear Heather, I am torn between dancing for joy and screaming with frustration. For the first time ever, I was really set on my new weight loss and diet plan. I was starting to work out. I’ve been following your advice and I even joined a gym. I have worked out 3 to 4 times a week, but I noticed that my energy levels were never going up – despite three weeks at this regimen. If anything, I was growing more and more tired. So I went to the doctor. I’M PREGNANT! When the doctor suggested it, I scoffed. But … Continue reading →