Do you suffer from a lack of restful sleep? Are you a parent? Are you an adult with responsibilities? If you are, you have probably experienced bouts of insomnia. It’s either trouble falling asleep–due to the ever-growing list that lights up your wall as you try to turn off your brain at night–or trouble staying…
Tag Archive: married life
Feeling Like Robert Downey Jr’s Father
I watch the morning scene unfold, my eyes filling with tears as I hang my head guiltily. The children and I stand together, unified in our love for their father, as he turns the kitchen upside down, slamming cabinet doors, whipping through shelves, tossing contents aside as he searches for any amount of it. Mom….
Pick Your Battles or Hide Your Toothbrush
I’ve heard that in successful marriages, there are comprises. Though I have only been married to my current husband for 10 years, collectively I have been married 15, and I believe that good behavior during time served in previous matrimony ought to count for something. I did learn something during those years, such as: Don’t…
Loving Yourself Enough to Change
My husband and I were married the year after I graduated high school, when I was 18 and he was 21 (and while it’s a happy story, that is one for another day). The first couple of years were rough, and nearly all of it could be attributed to our differences, which stemmed from the foundations…
How to Celebrate Your Birthday in Style
It’s my birthday today. Yup. I’m going to be 29 again. I’ve been turning 29 for six years now. Lots of time to get the perfect 29th birthday planned. First, I’m going to read though the journals I kept as a teenager and laugh at my angsty teenage self. This will allow me to feel…
Cheaper to Keep Her
On our first date, my husband took me to a hole-in-the-wall authentic Chinese buffet after the lunch rush had ended. A woman who looked like a waitress simply gestured toward one of the many empty tables when we walked in because she had a chicken foot dangling from her mouth. Though completely grossed out by…
8 Ways to Avoid Having Sex This Christmas
For Christmas I would like to not put out. I haven’t baked a cookie, wrapped a present, and I’ve barely shopped. My stellar case of laze might as well follow me to the bedroom this holiday season. But there is another person involved here: my Not-so Husband. Yeah, no means no. But there’s nothing like…
The Case for Cohabitation
I was raised with a long list of conservative Dos and Don’ts of life. I abided by most. The ones that made sense, “don’t let your lips touch the spigot when drinking from a public water fountain,” were easy to follow. The questionable ones, “stay away from that mentally unstable girl/boy that always gets into…
