jamie y. watkins

Tag: Marriage

  • 30 and Loved

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       I had a plan for this weekend. I thought, I can’t stop 30 from coming, so I might as well throw myself a party. So I was going to have my family over to our house yesterday, and then all my friends over today, but Chad had a different plan. Apparently, he’s had a…

  • Marriage: An Exercise in Faith

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    Today is our fifth wedding anniversary. Five years ago, Chad and I had the most beautiful wedding ceremony at a gorgeous park. The day was bright and warm, even at 10 a.m. Our wedding guests were seated around a large round pond and my dad walked me down a grassy walkway to stand with Chad.…

  • Happy Birthday, Love

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    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…

  • The Feminist I Became

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    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.…

  • A Painful Admission

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    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…

  • On Doing Dishes

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    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…

  • In Sickness and In Health

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    When I married Chad in 2009, his father’s prostate cancer was already diagnosed and treatment was underway. It’s been a long journey. For a while, there was much hope that maybe it was under control, but in December 2011, right around Christmas, we gathered as a family to hear the details of the cancer’s aggressive…