Listening Well in Your Marriage We are taught how to speak up. To a degree, I would argue. I don’t think we do it justice – BUT – at least it’s within our awareness. How to present, how to talk, how to share our opinions – with our spouse or otherwise. What […]
Your Money Conversations, Failed (No More) The fact that you don’t nail it at your first try is normal. Most people don’t. Most couples have to go about it a couple different times to get the conversation, let’s just say, about money (since that’s what we will be talking about during the month […]
The one exception, as it relates to money spent in your marriage where you BOTH don’t need to be aligned – Where you don’t have to consult your spouse on money, and your spouse doesn’t have to consult you – It’s when it happens within the confines of FUN MONEY. Sounds fun, right? […]
Let me start with this: True Story I’m sitting in a quiet room at the Millcroft Inn, a peaceful little place hidden back among the pine trees about an hour out of Toronto. It’s just past noon, late July, and I’m listening to the desperate sounds of a life-or death struggle going on […]
What I realized when our daughter asked me one simple question: “Why are you cleaning SO MUCH??” So she asked me this question as I am frantically trying to clean the bathroom, the hardwood floors, and carpeted areas of the home, all prior to some family coming over. People that have never seen our […]
Sometimes I remind THEM. My clients, that is. Sometimes THEY remind ME – OR they remind EACH OTHER in front of ME. It happened again two days ago. The intensity with which he said it: “I know – It’s supposed to be this way.” Though – And this is the tricky piece – […]
How to Recover Best – First, The Question “My husband said something hurtful to me, and I have a hard time with it. Sometimes I won’t think about it, other times it’s all I can think about. He has apologized and said that he didn’t mean it. I always tell him then […]
I don’t know how we didn’t notice the progress being done. One day, we came back from church, and it was all completed. It’s not like the birds decided to do it in the back of the house somewhere we never go. They built it right here, on top of a light, right […]
Turns out I have a co-conspirator at the Minnesota Department of Transportation. Who knew? As a driver, I have a bunch of habits that (sometimes) my kids laugh at – like talking to other drivers while I’m on the road. But nothing irks me more than when people don’t use blinkers. I’m fine […]
Best of May’s Marriage Advice – On HONESTY Let me ask you something. How real have you been with your spouse about what’s going on between you two? And I don’t mean- how many times you said a thing or two, or much how much of the neighborhood heard about it also- […]
