by JCT(Loves)Streisand* My first pregnancy occurred when I was twenty-seven. It was planned. A young minister’s wife had said, after hearing my lament the emptiness I was feeling then in the fourth year of my marriage, “You need a child.” This was probably an easy response for her to make in that at twenty-eight […]
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Though we dated several times, he even attending church with me, our relationship stalled. I was not her, never could or would be. I was also headed off for college, the one and same university that had graduated him.
I was sad during much of the summer.
He had stood me up and not followed through on attending
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Not a day has passed during the three weeks since posting my last blog that I have not felt guilty for failing to hold to my schedule of blogging.
It is a promise I give to myself, and a responsibility I maintain as a published writer.
The nagging feeling that has haunted me now abates as I write this post.
But what occurs when life happens and disrupts our goals and the tasks we have set our energies to?
What do we do when
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A woman asking for moral guidance for a friend whose wife has Alzheimers…
This is the woman who recently called the 700 Club, hosted by Pat Roberston, a husband for 57 years to his wife, Adelia.
“He says, he should be allowed to see other people because his wife as he knows her is gone…” the woman said of her friend.
To the surprise of many, Roberston, an ordained Baptist Minister for 50 years advised that the man in question
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Should Huma Abedin forgive her husband, US Representative Anthony Weiner?
Last Friday, I heard a young woman state that Huma should abort the child she is carrying Weiner.
Should Huma do this I could not condemn her.
I cannot say what a person should are should not do regarding the betrayal a loved one or friend exacts upon him or her.
And yet our ability to move beyond experiences of hurt and emotional injury inflicted by friends, family and even acquaintances whom we hardly know establishes the foundation upon which we will build our healing.
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For Richer, For Poorer II
Emotions, Money and Marriage in America
Marriage Penalty crop
An award-winning, nationally-syndicated personal finance columnist, Liz Pulliam Weston writes:
* The median net worth of married-couple households in the latest Census Bureau wealth study, conducted in 2002, was $101,975. For single men, median wealth was $23,700. For single women, $20,217.
* A 15-year study of 9,000 people found that during that time, people who married and stayed married built up nearly twice the net worth of people who stayed single. …when…other factors are held constant…income and education…the fact that they were married contributed to a 4% annual rise in these couples’ wealth.
* Wealth declines typically started four years before a divorce was final…the breakup ultimately reduced the typical person’s net worth by 77% of that of the average single person.
According to Nielsen//NetRatings, Liz Pulliam is the most-read personal finance columnist on the Internet.
Most of us grew up in a home controlled by adults. The attitudes about money that those adults hold, whether we like or disagree with them, shape our lives. Inevitably they shape how we see ourselves, and ultimately how we perceive our place in the world.
Individuals who grow up in a home where one or both parents donate a lot of time to their job, career or profession and making money, whether out of necessity or because they love their work, will view money quite differently than those who come from a home where money is viewed as simply important for acquiring the things one needs to live healthily and joyfully.
Two spouses of a marriage who come from the same economic strata could hold quite different views on this matter.
One spouse may view living joyfully and
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For Richer, For Poorer II
Emotions, Money and Marriage in America
Marriage Penalty crop
An award-winning, nationally-syndicated personal finance columnist, Liz Pulliam Weston writes:
* The median net worth of married-couple households in the latest Census Bureau wealth study, conducted in 2002, was $101,975. For single men, median wealth was $23,700. For single women, $20,217.
* A 15-year study of 9,000 people found that during that time, people who married and stayed married built up nearly twice the net worth of people who stayed single. …when…other factors are held constant…income and education…the fact that they were married contributed to a 4% annual rise in these couples’ wealth.
* Wealth declines typically started four years before a divorce was final…the breakup ultimately reduced the typical person’s net worth by 77% of that of the average single person.
According to Nielsen//NetRatings, Liz Pulliam is the most-read personal finance columnist on the Internet.
Most of us grew up in a home controlled by adults. The attitudes about money that those adults hold, whether we like or disagree with them, shape our lives. Inevitably they shape how we see ourselves, and ultimately how we perceive our place in the world.
Individuals who grow up in a home where one or both parents donate a lot of time to their job, career or profession and making money, whether out of necessity or because they love their work, will view money quite differently than those who come from a home where money is viewed as simply important for acquiring the things one needs to live healthily and joyfully.
Two spouses of a marriage who come from the same economic strata could hold quite different views on this matter.
One spouse may view living joyfully and healthily to include spending money frugally, and contributing time to less expensive ventures.
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