Category: Marriage
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Happy Birthday, Love
Today is Chad’s 29th birthday, and in honor of that, I’m going to give you 29 (of the infinite) reasons I love him. In no particular order: He’s so smart. He loves to travel the world. He takes very good care of me and Olive Oil. He’s very passionate about wine, and he started his…
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The Feminist I Became
My husband and I are approaching our fifth wedding anniversary. I read an article a while back from Candace over at The Thoughts I Think about her five year anniversary, and she wrote these words that I found so true: We think differently about life and God and politics than we did five years ago.…
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A Painful Admission
I said it the other night. I painfully admitted it to Chad because he was hurting and we were fighting and I didn’t know how to make it better. I can’t make you happy. I didn’t mean I wouldn’t try, that I wouldn’t do everything I can to make him as happy as possible. But…
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On Doing Dishes
When you’re young, and you imagine your future, I doubt many of us include in our images the daily tasks– laundry, dishes, commuting. I mean I certainly didn’t. And I probably think about them too often now: How much time do I really spend in the car on my way to and from work, in…
jamie y. watkins 