I want to hear from you. I made this blog with the hopes that it would be a community blog where we can all share with each other. If you have an idea or something you would like to see a post about, email me. I would love to have other people post about things going on in their marriage as well. Perhaps you have a question about a particular problem in your marriage, or maybe you have a few tips you want to pass on to young couples. Maybe you just want to rant. You can do all of that here.
I want to know what you need and want from this blog. I hope you flood the comment box with ideas and questions that will help you deal with the challenge of marriage. It is a chance to be a normal spouse and focus your attention on your relationship, putting away all of the infertility, parenting, and whatever else you may struggle with.
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Hi Arian - I think this is a great idea! I've been married for one and a half years and together with my spouse for almost six. We have a great relationship and he's my best friend (how cliche), but he sure can be frustrating sometimes!
ReplyDeleteI'd love to see posts on particular topics with questions out to readers, tips and tricks, rants we can comment on...anything you can think of to help us twenty-first century wives!
I look forward to reading,
Rebecca C.
I love the idea of your blog! I'm here from LFCA in an attempt to avoid the crappy things going on in my own life right now.
ReplyDeleteI've been with my husband-of-4-years for about 9 years now. We have a solid relationship that fluctuates between going at 95% strong and 69% strong, depending on the crap going on.
I always envy those mindlessly happy "in love" young couples who can't keep their hands off each other (or stop kissing/feeling each other up for long enough to sustain a 5 minute conversation with someone else) because we have a generation gap in our relationship and its always been "too mature" for that kind of obvious love. We hold hands and hug each other but that's about as pukey as we get in public. We certainly don't call each other "honeybunny" or "punkin" - in fact, "yes dear" has now become a standing term of endearment.
So you can imagine my pleasant surprise to find a blog and someone ELSE (gasp!) who also thinks marriage is hard work, a real challenge and a time of selective silence i.e. knowing when to keep your mouth shut!
Looking forward to reading more from you. Vents and rants are my forte and blog reads of choice, but that's only because I use my blog to spew what I can't in real life. [I'm sure my husband's mom would freak out if she found out I've actually thought about slowly strangling my husband on occasion!! (and no, I wouldn't do it - if only because I can't throw my career away haha! Just kidding.)]
P.S. There is no such thing as "a normal spouse" :)
I cannot tell you the number of time I have thought about doing this EXACT same thing! Everyone talks about the 7-Year-Itch as it relates to marriage . . . is there such a thing as the We've-Been-Married-For-6-Year-And-I-Would-Be-Happy-If-We-Never-Had-Sex-Again-Itch? No? That's just me? I love my husband - I really do. I am just not really in love with him right now. Maybe it is the strain of having 3 kids under the age of 5 (coupled with a 2nd trimester loss last year), but I suspect it is more likely due to the fact that my husband makes me feel like I am taking care of 4 kids under the age of 5. He generates more laundry, more dishes, and more headaches for me than my 3 children combined.
ReplyDeleteEND RANT. I look forward to reading more from you and should you ever see the need for a guest blogger, let me know - my in-laws recently discovered my blog, and while I am more than happy to talk trash about them over there, I try to keep the complaints about my husband to a minimum.