Jodie Utter, Author at Her View From Home

Marriage
March 23, 2020
4 Minute Read

We’re Two People Holding On To Love For Dear Life

Do you see what I see? I doubt it. Some time ago, when I sat with a close friend—one who’d recently been cheated on and then left by her…

Marriage
February 7, 2020
3 Minute Read

You Built Your Marriage From Nothing Once—You Can Do it Again

That our darkest moments together ended us—in that new beginning, second chance with each other kind of way—is the most awesome gift I’ve ever…

Marriage
September 6, 2019
10 Minute Read

It’s True What They Say: A Happy Wife Makes a Happy Life

The first time I tried to explain to my husband why I felt like a cruise director in our marriage rather than a wife, it didn’t sink in. He…

Marriage
August 8, 2019
8.9K Views
4 Minute Read

Dear Husband, Fall Back in Love With Me

Husband, by now I’ve fallen in love with you a hundred times. And so it follows I’ve fallen out 99. After all these years, even though…

Marriage
August 2, 2019
281 Views
3 Minute Read

The Feeling of True Love isn’t a Feeling at All

I adore his 5 o’clock shadow. Even though the salt and pepper. Who am I kidding? BECAUSE of the salt and pepper. I’m purring right now…

Living
May 6, 2019
31 Views
4 Minute Read

It’s Your Birthday! Call Your Doctor.

Who can remember when it’s time to schedule that dreaded pap smear? Or the awkward and ouchy mammogram? The annoying teeth cleaning, the pesky…

Marriage
April 15, 2019
180 Views
6 Minute Read

To the Blindsided and Betrayed: You Will Heal, One Breath at a Time

Brokenhearted one, I know you’re suffering so badly right now. I know you can’t see your way past, through, around, or over the…

Living
February 23, 2019
78 Views
8 Minute Read

When You’re Spending Too Much Time and Money Shopping and Drinking, You Vow to Stop

I don’t usually make resolutions, but it’s been an unusual couple of years for me and my marriage. Two whack years, after which…

Living
December 12, 2018
37 Views
5 Minute Read

Don’t Take This Personally, But Please Don’t Ever Call Me on the Phone

I sat here trying to remember when I last spent time chatting with a friend on the phone until I realized ain’t nobody got time for that. The…

Grown Children, Kids
December 7, 2018
103 Views
6 Minute Read

Battling the Sting of Toxic Relatives: Why Our Kids Need Us to Show Them How

In dealing with our difficult relatives, the troublemaker kind who seem to blight most family trees, my husband and I have always attempted to shield…