So here’s the super-duper Get Out of Jail Free Card my therapist friend Scarlet gave me after I’d moaned and groaned my way through dinner, telling her how I completely lost my mind the other day. It’s a super-neat trick that’s already saved my ass on more than one occasion, and I hope it saves [...]
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Steps 2 and 3: Have a Big Fight and Use that Fight for Change
Breakthrough, people, breakthrough. That’s what I should have said instead of saying we’d finally rebooted our marriage. Because, as we all know, marriage is a living, breathing, changing thing. Which means there’s always the opportunity for another fight around the corner. Yee-ha! But the good news is that once you’ve had a major breakthrough, the [...]
The Secret Lives of Wives, cont.
Remember how I asked people to write in after my last post (on the Iris Krasnow piece) and let me know how often they thought about divorcing their spouses? Well, a few women wrote to say that they don’t think about divorce nearly as often as they did when their children were babies (and when [...]
Uh-Oh! Sleep-Deprived Wives Fuel Marital Strife
While we’re on the subject of sleep deprivation, let’s go a little deeper. It’s no big secret around here that I’m perpetually sleep-deprived and grumpy. So let me start by saying that I have high hopes of sleeping again–and soon. To get there, I’m slowly but surely nudging my two resident insomniacs (Gabriel and Ken) [...]
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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
