Tag: commitment
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How a random exercise of kindness changed my life
Sometimes, when you’re in the doldrums, and everything seems to be going round in circles, the best thing you can do is get up, get out, and take yourself for a nice, long walk
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Why the hardest thing about marriage, is staying married
In the last few years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of my Facebook friends relocating to Splitsville. Is this simply to be expected because we’ve reached that point in our lives, or is it because marriage is actually harder than any of us expected?
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The stupid little things that make me fall in love with you
I’ve written many columns on how much I love my husband, some so schmaltzy that I can’t even bear to link to them. Now I’ve been commissioned to write another: on falling in love, repeatedly, with the same person.
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How a Great, Big Curveball of Change Put Our Wedding Vows to the test
When Elton explained this to our son, who was 4 at the time, he listened and summarised it as “so Daddy, your lungs don’t feel like being lungs anymore?” It was so on point, my husband uses it as his standard intro when people ask him about his condition.
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I’m Mumbling My Way Through Married Life, and Loving It
Ask anyone and they’ll tell you how “marriage changes things” and “If I knew what I know now, I don’t think I’d get married again.” I’d like to dissect those statements for a bit, if I may.
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Let’s talk about … The things you need to talk about before tying the knot
More about our October Iris Session, in which David O’Sullivan will be unpacking things couples need to talk about before tying the knot.
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Why You Have to be Just a Little Insane to be a Loyal Rugby Fan
Some will scoff at the thought of investing such energy into 15 men with obscenely large pectorals chasing an oval ball around a patch of grass, and will look at you like you’ve just rambled on for an hour about how deftly you’re able to gut a mackerel.
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I Saved My Marriage by Opting Out of Being a Wife
I have been married for 10 years. I know – thank you. It has been an extraordinary journey with a really lovely man and two children (3 cats, but they are easy). Some of it has been awesome beyond words, and some of it awful beyond words.
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It’s a 50-freaking-year commitment, people!
Never mind the stuff life throws at when you choose to tie the knot. What about the stuff you wind up throwing at each other? Yes, you take on a lot when you promise to have and to hold. But as long as you have and hold each other, you can handle whatever marriage has…
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Why we finally changed our minds & tied the knot
Love and marriage don’t always have to go together, but when they do, the world can change for the better. Lucille Abendanon, who vowed never to tie the knot, tells her tale of changing vows