Once you have kids, your marriage becomes about more than just your relationship. It’s also about your children, your work, your friends and your extended families, not to mention all the little fires that pop up and need to be put out on a daily basis.
Thanks, everyone, for your patience these past couple of months. My mother passed away in December and it’s taken me a while to get back into regular life, much less this blog. So. Here we go…. If there’s one thing I’ve learned this last year, it’s that most of our problems revolve around a basic—but [...]
How to Save Time, Lessen Your Frustration and Help Get Your Relationship Back on Track
Frustrated and pissed off at your spouse? Wondering how you’ll get through another stressful, jam-packed holiday season? Sure you are. We all are. It’s tough enough to stay on top of things during normal times, but how are you supposed to do that during times of high-stress, when you’ve got 65 daily to-dos that need [...]
How Food Allergies Affect a Marriage (and What You Can Do About it)
Note: Today’s post is written by Jenny Kales, The Nut-Free Mom. It’s been said that having a child is similar to having a bomb go off in your marriage. Now try having a child with a chronic, life-threatening medical condition that is greatly misunderstood and sometimes maligned – food allergies. This is what happened to [...]
19 Things I Learned in the ICU
I’ve spent the last two weeks at the hospital, caring for a loved one. Here’s what I’ve learned: It’s always easier to blame someone or something else for whatever went wrong. Blaming solves nothing. Most of the shit we worry about doesn’t really matter. Love, love and more love. That’s where it’s at, folks. When [...]
How to Repair Your Relationship with Your Spouse
Fight with your honey-bunny lately? Lovely feeling, isn’t it? Not only do you feel bad about the fight itself, but if you’re like me, there’s also that yucky thing you said that you didn’t really mean. (Well, you kinda meant it, but not the way it came out.) And now you’ve got to find some [...]
Why I Write About Kids So Much When this Blog is About Saving My Marriage
So I’ve begun to think that one of the reasons we’re having such a hard time with marriage these days is because we put so much of our time and energy into our kids. And now that children have moved from the periphery of the family to the center, there’s not a whole lot of [...]
How to Use Anger to Reboot Your Marriage
So how many times have you gotten angry–I mean really pissed–at your spouse? And how many times have you yelled at him, demanding that he change, that he do this instead of that, that for the love of God he stop driving you crazy. Well, if you’re human, I’m guessing it’s happened at least once. [...]
How to Repair Your Relationship With Your Kids in 30 Minutes or Less
Spend 20-30 minutes of one-on-one time with your kid, doing whatever it is they want you to do. Seriously. Get down on their level (close to their Legos, Barbies, books, games or whatever it is that they’re into) and let them decide what you’re going to play. Then let them decide what happens. All you [...]
Why Free-Range Parenting Isn’t Sounding So Bad Lately
So even though school’s finally started, I’m still not getting a break. Nico’s already home sick from school, Gabriel’s only been in preschool for 2.5 hours this first week and I’m quickly losing my mind. The funny thing about all this is that last week I wrote a post over at Ed News Colorado about [...]
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I'm a part-time writer who works from home, alongside my work-from-home hubby and our two boys, ages 5 and 3. Welcome to our crazy little space shuttle! Tanja Pajevic
