Recently, a male friend of ours (trying to save his troubled marriage by attending counseling sessions) confided in my husband. During an emotional session, a provocative question was posed by the therapist. “How would you describe your father…if you could only choose three words?” Much to his surprise, he could only come up with one – selfish. [...]
Insomnia Induced Epiphany From a very young age, I was extremely scared of the dark. . .even in the middle of the day. My dad left a vacant spot in my mom’s king size bed when I was only five years old. I quickly claimed dibs on sleeping in the big bed by my newly [...]
Perspective on Parents As Best Friends – My Daughter’s Turn Me: “Sweetie, you often tell your dad and I how much you love being with us, and since you were just a little girl, you’ve always come to us first whenever you were had inner turmoil or were having trouble making a difficult decision. Can you tell me [...]
“Date Night” during the early child-rearing years, was one of our more lofty priorities. However, the execution of the great get-away, wasn’t always so easy to pull-off. Scrounging up enough “expendable” cash to spend on dinner, movie & a sitter - not to mention the sometimes arduous task of choosing a restaurant we both were in the mood for - often snuffed out the “romantic [...]
What Is Your “Secret” to Keeping Love Alive? It seems that self-help books such as “The Five Love Languages” and “Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships,” have increased in popularity over the last decade as the divorce rate continues to rise. Couples are finding it more and more difficult to find reasons to [...]
A Marriage Made In . . . DNA ? In recent years, geneticists have discovered that some people are actually born happy. Fortuitously, they possess the “happy gene” which makes their frontal lobe a little more colorful than their melancholy counterpart. In May, our only daughter announced that she and her fiance had decided to get [...]
From An Adult Daughter’s Perspective . . . Part I Whenever I hear so-called parenting “experts” parrot the opinion-du-jour regarding child rearing, my ears prick up -I have to stop and listen - to see if their profound advice matches my experience. I do this purely for entertainment purposes now that my two children are “off-the-teet and [...]
My cup runneth over . . . Today I woke up in a soft bed in a room heated to the perfect temperature. I walked down my front staircase into a beautiful and spacious kitchen and hit a button on a Kreurig coffee maker which delivered me a hot cup of gourmet coffee in less [...]
A Humorous Look at Personality Types Somebody once said, “one can never have too many friends,” and generally speaking, I suppose that’s a pretty true sentiment. However, if you are like me, I tend to throw the word “friend” around rather loosely. After one brief encounter with someone, I tend to say ..”oh, ya I know [...]
No doubt we are all familiar with the old adage “laughter is the best medicine.” After 31 years of waking up next to my chosen one, I have also come to recognize laughter as one of the key ingredients for keeping the love flame burning. In fact for me, I would say laughter is the [...]
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