My husband and I avoid hanging out one on one with people of the opposite sex who aren’t family members. Yes — I know that sounds really weird. We have other “rules” in our marriage (e.g. no phones at the dinner table), but those kinds of rules are socially accepted or even praised. Rules that […]
Archives for January 2015
Parenting Without Fear
Why the seventies were the best time to be a kid— these popular “Buzzfeeds” and articles compare the carefree children of a world where moms didn’t worry much to the anxiety-ridden, adventure-stifled children of today— the children of helicopter parents. We’ve all seen these parents (some of us may have even been them) agonizing over all […]
Why Marriage is “Difficult”
Marriage is great, BUT… They continue about how complicated everything is, how it’s never easy, how they want to kill each other half the time, or whatever it is that isn’t honeymoon bliss. You can find this kind of comment all over the place. It is usually made by somebody who really does believe in […]