Marriage Actually - An honest look at marriage

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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January 14th, 2008

Tips for Marriage

From About.com comes a post including tips for marriage. The issues addressed in the article include:
* Lack of respect and kindness for one another
* Lack of time with each other
* Lack of sexual desire for one another
* Lack of […]

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January 13th, 2008

Depression and the Other Spouse

Heather B. Armstrong (I write it with the middle initial because I’ve only ever seen it with a middle initial, and who am I to mess with that, yeah?), author of Dooce, has been really open about her struggle with depression. In a December post, How I Do, her husband, Jon, honestly shares his […]

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January 6th, 2008

The Battle of the Clutter

It’s not him, it’s me…

I’ve always been a cluttered person. In jr. high/high school, I was the one with the bed arranged perpendicular to the door so that all of my junk/clothes/books/notes, etc. could be “hidden” on the floor on the other side of my bed. I had a closet which had a […]

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November 29th, 2007

Being Thankful

Okay, so, almost everyone has put Thanksgiving behind them for the year, and is looking forward to and preparing for Christmas. However, it is still November, and so I’m gonna take a minute to share a few more things to be thankful for! Gill spent the month sharing the list of things for […]

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September 27th, 2007

Who’s your BFF?

Who’s your best friend? Can’t name just one? How ’bout your 3 closest friends?
Question: Did you spouse appear in that list?
You’d think it’d be a no-brainer, considering the fact that this is the person who you spend everyday living alongside. Of course, some may say that all that togetherness is the […]

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August 27th, 2007

Sign of a Good Marriage?

No, the size of the diamond is not the indicator of a good marriage. Good marriages and bad marriages alike come in all shapes, sizes, weights, and purities of gemstones. And sometimes no gemstones at all.
No, the sign of a good marriage that I’m thinking of is one that keeps coming up lately. […]

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