My good friend, Matthew, called and said his wife was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. My friend was beyond himself in bewilderment over his wife’s unusual state of mind. His wife, Marianne had always been what everyone considered a high performer and super competent. She had an MBA and ran a successful bank….
That memory watching a line of boats on a river waiting for the gates of a lock open and close brings me peace. Hearing the water pour in and spill out like a giant bathtub, smelling the fumes of the idling boats, the lock gate opening for a few to slowly motor inside – in that moment,…
There is a dish my husband loves to eat which features pork stir-fried with a bumpy cucumber-shaped vegetable called the bitter melon. While I have no qualms about eating my veggies, this gourd is one I desperately stay away from. Although nutritious, the bitter melon has a very strong, acrid taste that can leave one…
Here are the things I thought happily married couples would do: dance in the kitchen, have fabulous sex, travel the world, and be able to have lengthy, meaningful conversations while hardly saying a word. In fact, the telepathic love connection expectation ran pretty high. Think of Schmidt’s character in New Girl: just one look at…
Six months into my relationship with Josh, I began to feel some intense angst. I struggled knowing for certain if he was “the one.” I longed for a word from God: a message written in the sky saying, “marry this man” or “don’t marry this man” would be helpful. Marriage is a big decision and…
