Marriage Actually - An honest look at marriage

July 12th, 2008

10 Benefits to Being Married

Here are 10 benefits I get from being married to Kerri, rapid fire style, in no particular order and by no means exhaustive

A full social calendar
Good food
Sex
Laughs
Encouragement when I’m down
A thousand touches that say “I love you”
More good food
Amazing kids
Someone to be impulsive with
Some one to grow old with

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July 1st, 2008

Blast from the Past

One of the inevitable consequences about being married for any length of time, is that you have more and more collective memories, and things from the present are increasingly likely to bring up that shared past. There are some draw backs to this - I have ready stock of jokes and quotes that Kerri, […]

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June 6th, 2008

What is a Date?

Tonight Kerri and I had a date. Nothing fancy. After eleven years of or marriage and three children sometimes is means dropping the kids off at Grandma’s and heading to Penn Station for a sub. Of course we talked about the kids a little (Samantha finished first grade this week - W00t!), but we also […]

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May 27th, 2008

10 Summer Date Ideas

With summer almost here (woohoo), and unofficially here already, the options for dates gets blown wide open. I thought I’d share some of the things we’re hoping to do this summer (when the kids are at grandma’s!!!).
1. Bike rides! (We still need the bikes, though. Hopefully, this summer. :) […]

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May 22nd, 2008

Irma and Ray Ziff–Married 75 years!

Congrats to Irma and Ray Ziff who, in March, celebrated 75 years of marriage. To each other, even!!!
A friend remarked that that’s longer than Senator McCain has been alive. Craziness.
The happy couple appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno the other night. Among other things, we found out that their little ones […]

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May 10th, 2008

Reacclimation - 13 Things I’ve Noticed Since My Wife Got Back

Kerri’s been back from her girlfriend road trip for almost a week, and even after an absence of only five days there is a bit of reacclimation that occurs. Here are a few things I’ve noticed:

The bed is smaller.
The bed is warmer.
The mornings are quieter… because I’m back in the office and starting them before […]

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April 13th, 2008

Greenhouse

Okay, we don’t have a totally Green House here at the Aldrich Homestead, but Tree Hugging Family’s countdown to Earth Day has me thinking a bit about our home.
While no one would accuse Bald Man and me of being granola, we have made quite a few changes around our home to try and have […]

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February 17th, 2008

Double Date

So, last night all three kids spent the night with grandma. While that in and of itself it a pretty cool thing, it gets better. Not only were Kerri and I sans children, but our friends from down the street were too! Go, go gadget grandparents!
We’ve known our neighbor’s for almost a year and have […]

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February 14th, 2008

So, What’s a Marriage Blog Without a Post on Valentine’s Day?

I don’t know, cuz this one’s got one!
It’s a quiet Valentine’s Day around Breezemoor. (That’s what I’ve named our house, because of the wind that whips around the front porch and because houses with names sound classier.) I worked; the neighbors came over to play and we all had dinner together. Thursday’s normally bring a […]

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January 25th, 2008

Fight it out!

A new study from the University of Michigan finds that it is healthier for couples to just fight out their issues rather than let the offenses stew.
From 60 Second Science:
The 17-year survey followed 192 couples. When both spouses suppress their anger at the other when unfairly attacked, earlier death was twice as likely than in […]

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