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marriage
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Dick, health, marriage
The Triennial Colonoscopy PSA (a love story)
09.09.11 | Permalink | 6 CommentsMy soul mate turned 36 last week, so that must mean it’s time for another colonoscopy! Happy birthday, honey! I signed up Tom for his first colonoscopy at 33 because his maternal grandfather died at age 43 from colon cancer. They found a polyp that was pre-cancerous but advanced enough to warrant a repeat in [...]
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marriage
Lucky Thirteen
06.13.11 | Permalink | 3 CommentsHere is my first world problem a few months ago: my stupid iPod Touch keeps going offline so I can’t watch my shows and surf my interwebs and buy more ebooks. I tell myself this isn’t a big problem, of course it isn’t, and then I think how this little rectangle of metal and glass [...]
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Dick, marriage
Ode to the end of romantic love
02.14.11 | Permalink | 8 CommentsSometimes my husband is the annoying partner on the group presentation. I always preferred working alone because the partner never gets all the crumbs when he sweeps the floor and why for the love of everything holy is he even sweeping when the vacuum is right there and then he might have some chance of [...]
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marriage, money
Going to bed angry
02.20.10 | Permalink | 28 CommentsYou know how they say the number one thing married people fight about is money? I hate that it is the number one thing that Tom and I fight about too, because we don’t have one of those marriages. We have a happy marriage. But bring out the budget talk, or, worse, the Freelance Eviscerator [...]
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LDS Church, marriage
The thing I love best about Tom
02.15.10 | Permalink | 11 CommentsToday at church I entertained some (quite probably blasphemous) thoughts. I was bursting to share them, but I restrained myself throughout the beautiful, music playing softly in the background lesson on Jesus Christ, our chosen Leader and Savior. As soon was we walked in the door afterwards, rushing to change into comfortable clothes (pajamas) and [...]
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divorce, marriage, pregnancy
Betrayal
02.05.10 | Permalink | 18 CommentsIt is 4:03 on Friday morning, and I had another dream that my husband is divorcing me. I am not insecure in my marriage; it’s only when I’m pregnant that I have these serial abandonment dreams. This one was a continuation of the last one, so it just got worse. This time I asked my [...]
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marriage
Love the one you’re with/the one you are
01.26.10 | Permalink | 10 CommentsLast week on our walk I told Chrysanthemum all about Penelope Trunk’s complicated love life. I also told her about my favorite of Penelope’s posts ever — it has “language” but may be the truest elegy to motherhood ever written. If you don’t recognize yourself in her post, I envy you, but I also think [...]
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