screw-ups
Adventures in Name Changing, part I
{Tell me you loved the movie, “Adventures in Babysitting” as much as I did. Yes, the one back in the 80’s with Elizabeth Shue. When I moved to Chicago, I suddenly understood the whole drive-into-the-scary-city premise. Anyhoo….}
So, armed with my newly-married force field (ya know, the one keeping away normal frustration, at least until the [...]
Honesty
I thought I knew, long ago when I was planning my first wedding, why people got divorced. My parents were divorced. Many of my relatives were divorced. I didn’t have any friends that were divorced, but that’s just because I was young, too young for anyone to have been married yet, much less divorced.
I thought [...]
Something old, something new
The shadow of your former loves and lives follows you into any relationship. The stakes are upped when the previous relationship was a marriage, and it (obviously) failed. Who doesn’t love a “first”? First kiss, first love, first bite, first sip. “I’ve never done this before, been here before, felt like [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Great Expectations
I bought this fabulous book on a desperate trip to B&N. One of the first exercises concerns your expectations (versus reality) of getting and being engaged.
I suppose we’re lucky in that we have a do-over, so we’ll see how reality and expectations match the second time around. In retrospect, I expected that the occasion [...]
