Pick Your Best Friend

You know how they tell you that when you get married, you want to marry your best friend?  They say you should choose that special person whom you can talk with and be yourself with. The person that you would want to be with over everyone else.  The one who really gets you. Well, that’s who [...]

Dinner Time In A Whole New Light

When the CPA and I got married, we had a list of things that we swore we would always do.  Along with planning lots of travel and having regular date nights, we promised that we would sit down to dinner every night so that we would have time to discuss how our respective days had [...]

Time to Get Some Life Insurance

A wise man once told me that in order to keep from worrying about something, you should imagine the worst that could happen and then plan for it.  That way, no matter what actually does occur, you will be ready, thus lessening your worry.  Wise words indeed.   I tend to follow this philosophy with a [...]

Married to An Older Man

I don’t know if I’ve ever told you before (I’m guessing you may have picked up on this on your own) but I am married to an older man.  And by older, I mean that there’s a 17 years difference in age between us.  (Gasp!) If someone had told me years ago that I would have [...]

Just One More Reason Why I Love My Husband

The CPA had been looking forward to his Labor Day weekend motorcycle ride for weeks.  He is getting ready to sell his bike so it was going to be his last hurrah and he wanted to do it right.  He was planning an overnight trip down to Southern Virginia where he could just enjoy the [...]

I Blame it on the Hormones

My husband has been out of town this week for business.  I don’t like when he goes because it feels like there’s this huge empty space in the house.  It’s so quiet that I leave the TV on before falling asleep so that I don’t have to listen to the silence.  For the most part [...]

Two Whole Years

It’s been two whole years since we said our “I do’s” and agreed to spend our lives together. I honestly don’t know where the time has gone.  It has been simply amazing.  Yes, I know that marriage is hard work, but it doesn’t really feel like it’s been hard.  There have been times of compromise of [...]

Marriage: Five Questions to Ask Each Other

The CPA and I had been dating for a while when we got engaged.  Because of this, we felt that we knew each other pretty well.  The more I think about it, this seems to be the nature of relationships – when you’re with someone for a while, you begin to think you know all [...]

Married Life: How Do You Decide When to Get Married?

How do you know when you should get married?  This has always been a difficult question for me, which might explain why it took so long for me to tie the knot with someone.  Even now when I’m the one who is asked by friends, I struggle with the answer.  I remember my years spent [...]

Marriage – Friends with Exes

A recent post by my Internet friend Jill got me thinking about the age-old question:  can you be friends with your ex?  Actually, I began thinking about this long before her post.  In fact, I can remember a conversation that the CPA and I had before we got married.  A conversation that included me saying [...]