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Marriage and the law of averages

It’s been a month since our blissful nuptials. Everyone keeps asking how married life is. That’s kind of a hard question to answer. Of course, it’s wonderful. But what do people really want to hear when they ask that question? Do they want to hear about how we got through the great curtain hanging drama of 2010? [...]

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No honey. You can't register for my butt.

He had a gun. I had a check-list. And it was smack dab in the middle of the holiday shopping frenzy. What on earth were we thinking? We weren’t even going to register. For the longest time we held firm that registering was just asking for gifts and that’s not what we are all about. [...]

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Kicking thank you, but….

It’s tough to take a compliment sometimes. Especially when you haven’t brushed your hair or your teeth and your mascara is smeared underneath your eyes. The fiance has a way of dishing out loads of compliments when I look like this. To him I’m beautiful, the prettiest woman in thew orld, super sexy…ok, I’ll stop before [...]

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Punching my demons in the you-know-where and filling my glass (of wine) half-full

Warning: lots of cheesy “get real” lingo to follow, including but not limited to terms such as “loving myself,” “self-talk” and “co-dependency.” I can’t help these things. I had three years of therapy in college and I know Betty would be proud…  I’ve been mulling some things around in my head for a while and debating whether or [...]

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