Relationship Glue Recipe, Make Time Together Don't Just Wait for It

In the Shel Silverstein poem "Zebra Question" the child asks "are you black with white stripes or white with black?" And the zebra asks "are you good with naughty times or naughty with good?" That's a key question for marriages. Is it good with bad times or bad with good? Unlike the zebra's stripes, the order matters.   Relationship Glue Recipe, Make Time Do Not Just Wait for It

31 Years With My Valentine, I'm Blessed

Warning: sappy, sentimental post ahead. Time to stop work and start getting ready to go to dinner. We're taking our youngest two and their assorted significant others for dinner. My husband got to bed late again working too hard to take care of us. He's gotten shorted on sleep all week with assorted projects and daughter's orchestra concert last night.  But he's always good about getting up to do something nice for me.

31 Years With My Valentine, What Did I Do to Deserve Such a Guy?

Panic Attack Survival--Dealing with Empath Response

I am in a blue funk today. I'm not sure why, but I think I had a panic attack. Now I'm weepy and stuck in "empath" mode. I get in these jags where I feel sorry for people and can't stop crying. This may sound odd, and I don't know how to explain in exactly. Please, if you've felt this way, chime in. We empaths need solidarity so we don't feel like lonely freaks.   Panic Attack Survival--How I Am Processing the Empath Response