A theme I hear increasing in my female clients’ divorce filings is the fact that they feel they do the lion’s share of work in the marriage. Many of them have work outside the home, many of them full-time, but they also end up with a full-time job at home, too. And their husbands let [...]
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16 May
As time goes by
And so you and I, We watch our years go by We watch our sweet dreams fly, Far away but maybe someday… I don’t know when, but we will dream again And we’ll be happy then Till our time just drifts away (Harry Chapin, Dreams Go By) It’s a good thing humans celebrate their milestones: [...]
8 May
Speak up!
Commitment is a wonderful thing. Whether you’re talking about marriage, a job, a faith, parenthood, any cause–the willingness to commit openly and faithfully is admirable. Especially if it’s unpopular or out of the norm. I applaud those who continue to speak out against vaccines for their children with autism, those who rally against the war [...]
30 May
On Husbands
Zsa Zsa Gabor, who ought to know, said, “Husbands are like fires; they go out if unattended.” As I’ve said before, I’ve had three husbands (yes, yes, I did marry one of them twice, quit NAGGING me about that!), which is, perhaps more than my fair share. The three were very different, and perhaps each [...]
6 May
Approaching equilibrium
You know, every once in awhile you just hit a real bump in the road. So many of us “manage,” we do the best we can every day as spouses, as parents, to try to keep our fingers in the old dyck for as long as possible. But sooner or later, the water just gets [...]
25 Mar
My bodyguard
Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age — Jeanne Moreau Those who read the comments to yesterday’s post noted certain elbow-to-the-rib pokes by my offspring and friends, who have always delighted in pointing out the fact that when my husband and I married, I was 44 [...]
16 Jan
What makes a marriage?
A friend of mine recently decided in order to preserve her marriage, she needed to leave the marital home. She and her husband now live in two homes in the same city, while they work through counselors to cure the issues that separated them. So they see each other a couple times a week and [...]
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