This may sound oxymoronic but one of marriages greatest problems is that it has been overly romanticized. Simply put, people go in expecting way too much. Marriage has been overhyped by movies and television and crammed down people’s throats by advertising mad men for generations. It’s not important to have a good marriage, it’s important […]
Ticker – On Losing Heart in Our Marriages and Finding it Again
Heart failure in marriage isn’t at all uncommon these days. Almost fifty percent of couples divorce. Plenty more—to twist Thoreau’s words a bit—live quiet marriages of desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. There is a very good chance that at some point, we married couples will fall out of […]
Kelly Monaghan: Are You Making These Common Vacation Mistakes?
As a travel writer and home-based travel agent, I see people make the same mistakes over and over again. Here then are my top suggestions for your next vacation trip. 1. Use A Travel Agent Let me slay two myths: “Everyone books on the Internet” and “You always get the lowest fare online.” Neither are […]
Bob Tedeschi: Managing Noise
In Episode 51 of the Real Life Survival Guide, my fellow panelist Christine Ohlman put her finger on an increasingly troublesome self-care issue: managing noise. We watch screens all day long; they scream at us with work tasks, spam, legitimate e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, news, sports, gossip. Our society essentially demands it. Long ago the U.S. […]