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Archive for the ‘Communication’ Category

April 8th, 2008

“Sure, he’d be happy to….”

Bald Man started coaching our middle child’s first soccer team tonight. He didn’t out and out volunteer to coach, but said “yes” after the soccer association called parents asking for help. I was actually the one who answered the phone, and was the parent initially asked, but was more than happy to pass […]

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March 24th, 2008

Engaged Over Twitter

Yes, it’s true. A man proposed and a woman accepted. All over twitter. Looks legit.
And it doesn’t appear to have been the first time this happened. Greg & Stef a few weeks ago. And Jerrod & Shannon six months before that. There are even rumors of one prior to them.
All the best to both couples, […]

By Bald Man -- 0 comments

January 28th, 2008

What’s good for the goose…

So, surely we all have those things in marriage that we wish we could change in our spouses. You know, those petty habits of theirs that aren’t going to make or break the marriage, but that you just really wish they would fix already!!! We’re not the only ones, right?
So, for me, it’s […]

By Kerri -- 3 comments

October 26th, 2007

Combining Traditions

Bald Man talked a few months back about Holiday Negotiations. I wanted to go into that a bit more and ask how well your traditions and celebrations meshed when you married?
I was thinking about this because our oldest son turned 4 today, and we’ve had many discussions over the years about how […]

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August 19th, 2007

He Said - She Said

More from “If the Buddha Married,” by Charlotte Kasl. This time, lets talk about an essential to communication… recognizing our “interpretive filters.”
We had a running joke in the family growing. It’s a monologue that goes something like this: “I think I thought I heard what you think you said, but I’m not so sure you […]

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August 15th, 2007

“What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate”

As I continue to muse on what it means to express our identity truly vs. as an illusory image, let’s through this quote from “If the Buddha Married” into the mix (p. 127):

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