We’re Holding On For the Kind of Better That Can Only Come From the Worse
To the happy couple in my engagement photo: Would you still be smiling if you knew then what you know now? That this picture of you radiating…
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Dear Husband, Everything Happens For a Reason—And You’re Mine
I feel sorry for the girl who broke your heart. It was a long time ago, several years before I ever heard your name. I don’t know her and I don’t…
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The Little Things Used to Bother Me—Now I’m Just Grateful We Get Another Day
I’m not sure exactly when it was, possibly chemo treatment number four or five, but I remember lying in bed, recovering, and Mike walking out of…
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Dear Husband: To Us, You Are a Superhero
I stand in my kitchen wishing for a superhero to swoop in and save the day. His cape flying behind him as he soars through the air and into my home…
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To the Mama With Low Libido
Once. That’s how many times my husband and I have had sex in the past four months. Between work schedules and shuffling our young children to…
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You Are His Wife, Not His Mom
I told my husband to do something the other day and he looked right at me and said, “I had a mom for 18 years I don’t need another one.”…
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The New Us is Beautiful, Too
I remember us—young, carefree us. Plans were only made for travel and routine was as good as the empty pages of our phone calendar. Sheets would…
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There’s No Room For Resentment in Marriage
I’m afraid I used to be the wife who rolled her eyes at how her husband did all the things. There was a time when I nursed my resentment and held…
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Home is Where I Shine
From across the crowded room, my husband winks at me. Holding a glass of wine in one hand and letting the other one hang by the thumb from the pocket…
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Your Husband Can’t Read Your Mind
I had to learn the hard way, early in marriage, that my husband was incapable of reading my mind. As a sensor feeler, I could easily detect when…
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