Time and the Family In our family I like to get on the same level as my grandchildren. I want to make each one feel as though they are the only person in the world that I am thinking about. This one was getting his slobbery hands onto my face & glasses. I tried angling… Continue reading Family, How We Developed Such a Close One
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Commitment, a Secret to Simplifying & Enriching Your Marriage
My thoughts on commitment As I was thinking about how to write a blog post about commitment, I became aware of a truth. Unconsciously my wife & I had decided to be totally committed to our marriage. By doing so we were really simplifying our job of creating a happy marriage. We knew we were in… Continue reading Commitment, a Secret to Simplifying & Enriching Your Marriage
Empathy, Using It to Create a Beautiful Marriage
Vicariously experience what is happening Understanding how empathy fits into a marriage can profoundly increase your quality of life. Here’s the Dictionary.com‘s definition of Empathy — the psychological identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another. The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives a better understanding of the word. It says we experience the feelings vicariously without… Continue reading Empathy, Using It to Create a Beautiful Marriage
Forgiving, a Secret for Improving Your Marriage
Lots of forgiving If you’ve read the very first 3 or 4 posts in this blog, you may be assuming that my wife & I had a near-perfect marriage from the beginning. Not so. We married as two people with slightly different value systems and different mindsets. Forgiving one another for offences played a huge… Continue reading Forgiving, a Secret for Improving Your Marriage
Romantic Spouse to Renew the Spark in Your Marriage
What does romantic mean? I once overheard my wife tell her hair stylist that I was the most romantic man in our city. While that may be an exaggeration, I do know lots about the topic. At one point in my married life I decided that I was not romantic enough. I decided that romantic… Continue reading Romantic Spouse to Renew the Spark in Your Marriage
