ArchiveDecember 2015

When One Spouse Often Shows Up Later than the Other

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We cannot “fix” our spouses. To do so, we would need to assume the “better person” role and pronounce as flawed the person we vowed to love and honor, revealing disrespect. Not a good idea in a relationship based on respect and sharing. The best we can hope for is to influence our spouses, to hope they will admire our choices and adopt them as their own. Short of that, we...

“One of you will always be loving more.”

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Joshua Rogers yesterday shared some excellent advice from Lula Rawls, who has been married for 67 years. He was seated next to this grandmother of the groom at a wedding rehearsal dinner five years ago and asked for her marriage advice. I love the depth of what she had to say. “You’ve got to remember that one of you will always be loving more.” Just in case that didn’t...

Patty Newbold

I am a widow who got it right the second time. I have been sharing here since February 14, 2006 what I learned from that experience and from positive psychology, marriage research, and my training as a marriage educator.

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