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 [...]
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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 [...]
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. [...]
In-Laws Driving You Crazy?
So how many of you are getting ready to take off on your last summer trip, or else coming back from one? And how many of those involve extended family? Yup. I feel your pain. No matter how great your in-laws are, it’s never easy, now is it? Why is that? Sigh. Now, here’s the [...]
An Open Letter to My Husband
Dear Ken, When we met nine years ago, I never would have thought we’d pack two children, a dog, six fish and two frogs into our little family. I also never would have thought we’d survive two trips to LEGOLAND, 734 renditions of “Yellow Submarine” or 862,000 hours worth of YouTube videos as our 3-year-old [...]
How to Act Like a Grownup (Even if You Don’t Want to)
I’m so excited to have a guest post appearing on Jill Smokler’s fabulous blog Scary Mommy today, How to Act Like a Grownup (Even if You Don’t Want to)–check it out! I absolutely love Jill–if you haven’t checked out her blog yet, now’s the time! Her book would’ve saved me a lot of grief if [...]
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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
