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12 Easy Ways For Couples To Save An Extra $5,000 This Year
How much money would you like to have saved for the holidays? Or your next vacation? Or your emergency fund? Whatever your goal, the number probably seems overwhelming. Trying to figure out where several hundred or a few thousand dollars might come from is tough. Instead, break it down. Find ways to set aside just a little bit at a time — you’ll be surprised how quickly you can move toward your goal! To help you get started with that first step, we’ve put together a 12-month strategy to save money and work your way up to $5,000 in savings this year! Here are 12 Ways to Save Money Each…
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My Husband & I Got Engaged 3 Months After His Wife Died — & Neither of Us Are ‘Monsters’
When I saw today the news that Patton Oswalt had gotten engaged to actress Meredith Salengerjust 15 months after his wife of 10 years passed away, I hoped the Internet doubters and haters would for once keep to themselves. I could already hear what they’d angrily type into their keyboards: “Too soon, too fast!” they’d screech. “He sure didn’t waste any time,” they’d balk. Well, of course he didn’t. Why can’t people see that this just makes sense? That when the universe throws you a curveball amidst your grief and delivers you a perfect second chance at love, my god, you TAKE IT. I know this because I lived it — albeit…
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My husband was leading a double life. How I fell apart, then found strength.
A few weeks after giving birth to my first baby, I was wracked with pain to the point that I could barely move. Swinging my legs, one after another, out of bed took nearly all my willpower. This pain had nothing to do with the physical stress of childbirth or the stitches still holding my swollen private area together. This pain came from a place so deep within me that I could not determine where the pain ended and I began. We were intertwined. It was all-consuming. It felt as if half of my DNA had been ripped out of my body and I was left with a dangling half-strand. Until…
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Disagreeing Over This One Parenting Topic May Lead to Divorce
We all know you lose plenty of sleep when you first become a parent. Losing sleep can lower attentiveness, stunt reaction time, and shorten your temper, but as it turns out, just the topic of sleep can prove to be a major marital issue. A new study from Penn State has found that disagreement between spouses over their children’s bedtime can lead to major tension, and potentially divorce. Researchers posed questions to 167 mothers and 155 fathers about checking up on their child during the night at one month, three months, six months, nine months, and then 12 months. The study found that mothers with stronger beliefs about regularly tending to…
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What Do You Want Your Wives To Know About Marriage?
We hear a lot from the community that some of the husbands in marriage have a hard time expressing themselves to their wives. Whether it’s because of social stereotypes or an emotional block, there are many reasons why men find it hard to share their feelings with those closest to them. So, for this edition of Marriage Confessional, we wanted to let the men share their feelings. Use the form below to tell us whatever you’d like. You can vent, you can tell her that it’s not about her, you can share what you’re really afraid of. We won’t use anyone’s real names, so feel free to make up a…
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Why Women Live Longer Than Men In 10 Pics
Science tells us that women live longer than men for a whole host of reasons, but the most important one is that women don’t even do half of the ridiculously dumb things that men do. Seriously, what were you guys thinking? It goes a lot deeper than forgetting to look both ways before crossing the street. Men’s frontal lobes, the part of the brain that deals with decision making and risk assessment, develop slower than women’s. In short, men are basically doomed by nature and testosterone to be walking accidents waiting to happen. Have fun with that! We’ve previously given you proof, but this latest evidence will leave no room…
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If You Use This One Word, You Will Ruin Your Apology
Uh-oh! You’re in the doghouse again. Regardless of what you did (or said) to offend the other person, you need to fess up, and fast. But still, tread lightly; saying the wrong thing could quickly turn your apology from frank to false. “As I explain in my book, the challenge of apologizing is not just a matter of saying the right words, because apologizing with the wrong words can feel worse to the hurt party than no apology at all,” psychologist Harriet Lerner, PhD, wrote for Psychology Today. In fact, there’s an almost surefire way to turn an apology into an insult—and it only takes a single, two-letter word to do so.…
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This Is Everyone’s Biggest Bedroom Pet Peeve—and It Isn’t Snoring
While sharing a bed with your partner has its indisputable perks, getting some peaceful shut-eye may not exactly be a blissful utopia. What was once mutual, selfless love can rapidly transform into an egomaniacal sparring game between the sheets. Bedroom habits are fickle and don’t often align perfectly; loud snoring and overactive body temperatures can spark a bedroom madness that’s not the good kind. In fact, those are just a few of the reasons why married couples sleep in separate beds. However, the top pet peeve of the bedroom isn’t what you’d expect, according to a new survey of 1,000 people by Mattress Inquirer, an industry group. For the study, participants…
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5 Ways To Make Small Gestures Count In Your Marriage
If you think you need grand gestures to show your spouse love you may be mistaken. In fact, many studies speak to the fact that the secret to long-lasting love are small gestures such as cooking your partner a meal or cleaning up afterwards without him or her asking you to do so. One of the things that Alana values about Tim is his ability to show love through his actions. Alana puts it like this: It’s the everyday moments that matter. When I forget to bring in the mail (even when I am the first person home) and Tim says he’s glad to go fetch it and water all…
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3 Marital Communication Tips
Communication is the key to a healthy marriage. We have all heard this advice before and may have taken it to heart. But while this sentiment is true at its core, it can be very difficult to understand and take action on. What exactly is good communication, and how do we improve it? It can be difficult and even frightening to be completely open and honest with your spouse, and though eager, many people don’t really know where to begin. But, the process of developing your communication skills is absolutely worth it and it is simpler than you might think. Below, we’ve listed three ways you can begin working on…
