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Project Happily Ever After
Because life after "I do" isn't always so charming
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What’s Stopping You From Saving Your Marriage?
March 18, 2010I get a lot of emails that go something like this: My husband is condescending, annoying and downright mean. He hates me. He complains about everything that I do. I work my butt off trying to make him happy and I never get a thank you. The only time he ever remotely smiles at me is [...]
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He’s a Political Junkie. She’s Calling for a Filibuster. Can They Work It Out?
March 15, 2010A Reader Participation Post This question came in from a reader. My husband is a political junkie. He watches as many news shows as he can. He listens to talk radio all day and is constantly checking news websites. He reads the entire opinion section of the newspaper and any other articles that are politically based. Then he [...]
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Marriage Improvement Monday
March 14, 2010What’s Your Sulking Strategy? I tend to clam up whenever I’m under stress. If someone asks me if something is wrong, I generally say, “No.” I might give my husband a longer answer. Instead of “no” he’ll get “it’s work” or “I had a pissy day” or “that effing project is still driving me crazy.” But in [...]
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Why I Wish I’d Never Told My Kid About YouTube
March 11, 2010AKA How Animal Planet Ruined My Kid for Life AKA Yet Another Bad Mommy Moment I’m a relatively intelligent human being. I feel the need to stipulate that fact before I tell you this story. I feel that need because I worry that you will think that I am the antithesis of intelligent after you read this. Indeed, this is probably one [...]
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I Want to Be the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
March 10, 2010Lisbeth Salander—the shy Goth girl in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo—is the new Lara Croft. You heard it first here folks. You think I’m being sarcastic, don’t you? I’m not. She’s the next female feminist role model, not to mention the female superhero for every Geek, Nerd, and Out-of-Place-Feeling Person in the entire world. If you don’t [...]
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Marriage Improvement Monday
March 7, 2010Get to Know Your Spouse All Over Again Toward the end of my 4-month marriage improvement project, I read a book that suggested I get to know my husband on a deeper level by asking him about the meaning of life. Before I go on, I’m just curious. How many of you think that’s a swell idea? [...]
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The Last Day Principle
March 6, 2010AKA I’ve Lost a Great Mentor, and This is My Tribute to Him Earlier this week, I got the news that Jeff Bredenberg—a colleague, mentor, and man I’ve greatly admired—had died of a brain tumor. Immediately I thought back years—nearly 20 years in fact—to the day that Jeff interviewed me for my first post-collegiate job. I interviewed with [...]
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Book Review: Committed
March 4, 2010This Might At First Seem Like a Review of Eat, Pray Love. It’s Not. I’m Just Long-winded Like That. I might be the only woman in the world who did not finish Elizabeth Gilbert’s famed Eat, Pray, Love. I did read the Italy part of the book, and part of India, too. And that much of [...]
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Marriage Improvement Monday
March 1, 2010aka How to Stop Nagging Your Spouse Last week’s Marriage Improvement Monday gave you a strategy for forgiving your spouse of past indiscretions. Someone rightly asked in the comments, “But how do I forgive my spouse for something he’s doing right now—and keeps doing over and over again?” I’m glad she asked. You can’t forgive until you see [...]
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How to Help Moms with Post Partum Depression
February 26, 2010I grew up knowing the story of my maternal grandmother and how, not long after her second baby was born, she turned on the gas and tried to kill herself. I also grew up knowing the story of my mother, about how, not long after my birth, she was driving one day and thought, “I should [...]
