“I refuse to sit around feeling sorry for myself. I need to be strong, and get on with my life,” Sam said after losing a considerable amount of money. After Allison’s best friend was killed, she said, “I wanted to be left alone–to sort things out. But my husband kept calling me at work and stayed…
If you are, or ever have been, engaged, you may be aware that people you haven’t even spoken to in years come out of the woodworks to offer you “wedding inspiration”. It was the same for me, and I obliged them as they recalled details from their weddings some twenty years ago, or informed me…
Ads and commercials constantly bombard us with the idea that we deserve this car or that vacation. If we want it, we should just buy it. Right? I think the national credit card debt speaks to the fact that people just can’t bring themselves to say no. Even young newlyweds often do not limit themselves—they…
Sometimes we don’t know what to do with our emotions, so we stuff them deep down. But they always resurface in one way or another, and can cause issues in relationships with other people. Licensed psychologist and relationship coach, Georgia Shaffer offers in Taking Out Your Emotional Trash: Face Your Feelings and Build Healthy Relationships practical and…
Life before marriage was mostly about me. I did my best in high school so that I could graduate at the top of my class and earn scholarships for college. I worked summers between college years so that I could afford to graduate debt-free. I studied in college so that I could earn my degree….
