EXPECTATIONS EXPECTATIONS EXPECTATIONS!! How many times have we let our expectations get the better of us?? The problem is, you may not even realise you are doing it. I had an interesting realisation this past weekend about expectations. I noticed I tend to fight more with my husband on the weekend, while week days […]
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I asked my husband over dinner, what is the difference between you and me? As in between men and women? He quite readily came up with a list! He said that men are… More visual More selfish Stronger They don’t like to share their feelings They communicate via doing things (side by side not face to
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Looking through my computer, I found an old article I wrote last year when I realised I was pregnant with my fourth and was a little nervous because of the hormones I experienced in previous pregnancies. I thought I would share it for a laugh.. *** The Pregnancy Monster I decided to write this
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Sometimes when life gets busy, we can fall into a little trap. A trap of having everything a little too ‘practical’. When this happens we tend to fit people in to part of a routine, a schedule. This unfortunately includes the ones we love the most. When your husband gets home from work, how
You forgot something from the grocery store he asked you to get… the kids painted on the walls because you took a longer shower than usual… you scratched the car (OH BOY!) We have all been there. Our hubby gets annoyed at us for some reason or other. Was it our fault? Maybe? Partially?
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My husband and I have been married for just over seven and a half years and along the way we’ve made mistakes – more than a few – and we’ve also talked about what makes a good marriage with other like-minded married couples. Here are a few common ways we can, inadvertently sometimes, disrespect
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My husband and I recently celebrated our wedding anniversary and after reflecting on our married life I found myself seeing our life together in a completely different way. Here is my married life in numbers: 7 years of marriage 1 wedding 1 honeymoon 4 pregnancies 4 obstetricians 4 healthy children 4 house moves (with another
I’m sure many of us have heard of that saying “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus”. Even though many of us may be compatible with our husbands, we can function quite differently from one another, depending on our interests, personal experience, strengths and weaknesses, and temperament. Here are just a few ways
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In the first eighteen months of our marriage my husband and I consistently fought over the same thing over and over again: the dishes, whose turn it was to do them and who was actually going to do them. In most other areas of our life we were united, but in this area,
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What makes a marriage work? What makes a strong marriage between husband and wife? John Gottman, Professor of Psychology at University of Washington, a very well-known marriage therapist and author of several books including ‘Why Marriages Succeed or Fail’, has done amazing work and research on marriage over the last few decades and has
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