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Friday Flashback: Be a Man of Your Word
Are you a man of your word? I dont (just) mean at work and among your friends are you a man of your word with your wife? When you say you will do something, do you do it? Do you do it when...The post Friday Flashback: Be a Man of Your Word appeared fi
Reject The Straight Line Halfway Compromise
When people talk about compromise, they usually mean something more or less halfway between what the two people involved want. So if she wants to eat out daily, and he wants to do it once a week, then doing it four times a week... The post Reject The Stra
Do You Say No When You Should?
Do you know someone who everyone knows can be counted on to do whatever anyone needs? Those people are like that because they havent learned to put their own health and welfare ahead of what others want from them. And many of them have...The post Do You
Are Zombies Attacking Your Marriage?
The past is never dead. Its not even past. ~ William Faulkner in Requiem for a Nun Faulkner is correct our past is never really dead. When we try to bury it, it crawls out and comes back like a zombie. This can...The post Are Zombies Attacking Your Ma
Take A Little Walk
Our good weather is going to hold for another week here and I saw some couples this Sunday taking the opportunity to go for a stroll together. If your weather allows it, go for a hand-in-hand or arm-in-arm walk with your wife this week.... The post Take A
What If “Thank You” Changes Behaviour?
What if your wife only did for you things you thanked her for the last time she did that thing? What things would she no longer be doing? While the cause and effect are not that clear, the reality is being thanked for doing... The post What If “Thank You”
Have You Lost That Sex Habit?
This is a follow-up on Thursday’s Have You Lost That Loving Habit? post. Good, regular sex is very much about habit. It’s part of what the couple does and they make room for it in both their minds and their schedules. That doesn’t necessarily... The post
Friday Flashback: How Money & Housework Affect Marriage
This is my final post based on information from When Baby Makes Three, the 2011 State of Our Unions a report from the National Marriage Project. The study showed something interesting about income. How much money a couple had was far less important than h
Have You Lost That Loving Habit?
Habit is an interesting thing. We make habits without meaning to and we can also lose them just as easily. Lori and I used to go to movies, in a theatre, fairly often. Covid caused us to lose that habit and we’ve not picked... The post Have You Lost That
Don’t Take It Out On Your Wife
I have very good hearing. But I’ve never been able to “tune things out” the way some folks can do. This makes me prone to being annoyed by sounds. However, I’ve learned that my annoyance is not just based on the sounds around me.... The post Don’t Take It