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Maintaining marriage after motherhood
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Men, do you know how to make your wife smile? Really…how many of these things do you do on a daily basis? Less than 10? Lucky for you, I’ve prepared a take-home assignment so you can pass the Chivalry refresher course! Why? Because women are really really simple and easy to please (wink wink.) Oh, who are…
Make your marriage work! The best way to be married is to be happily married. I mean who wants to be unhappy? Who wants to dread having yet another silly argument with their spouse? Who wants to excel in other areas of their life yet feel stressed out in their marriage? Ummm…no one! Now don’t…
Happy Belated Black Marriage Day! Confused? How many people knew that this past Sunday was a national holiday for black married couples? I didn’t know, and I try to stay “in the know” about many things happening in and around our community. #BlackMarriageDay didn’t come down my timeline, no one posted about it. And I…
On Valentine’s Day, time stands still. It is the day of relationship-reckoning and the stakes are high, everyone is watching, it’s do or die. Cuddle-season is well underway for those out there dating, a select few husbands are trying to work their way out the doghouse, and the waters are being tested to see who…
Tie the knot. Get hitched. Take the Plunge. Those are mainstream phrases associated with getting married. Now where I’m from, we say “jump the broom.” And it’s literal. We actually jump over a broom! A ritual passed down through slavery. A tradition that is symbolic of us paying respect to ancestors that came before us. A…
Did everything happen so fast? Was your wedding day a blur? “They” say a wedding is just for a day, and then the marriage begins. And that’s true. But so many brides find that the actual day was a blur, as they were overwhelmed with anxiety, performing, and greeting guests. It can absolutely take the wind…
Weddings Ain’t Cheap! Looking to have an inexpensive, yet beautiful wedding? The average wedding cost in the United States is $26,645. Do you hear me? $26,645! I mean, who has that type of money to spend on a wedding? No, who has that type of money to spend on what, 8 hours? So many people…
By: Guest Contributor Grace Sandra. I got off the plane and in the car with 6 other women, perfect strangers. I was in Nebraska, a state I’d never been before nor expected to ever go. I was there as the keynote speaker for the women’s retreat, Jumping Tandem. Given the nature of my previous three…
A piece of advice an old married couple once gave me: always date your spouse. I never knew what that meant before marriage, but it didn’t take me long to find out. I
From an early age, children learn the phrase “I love you.” Most likely they hear this phrase before they can talk, and long before they can even begin to decipher the complexities of its meaning. At some point, they begin to repeat it back to you and even learn to use it in appropriate…