It’s been almost two weeks since my tenth anniversary weekend. My best weekend ever. I wish I could say that I have found an effortless way to incorporate everything I learned that weekend into my life now that my husband and I are home and back in the trenches. I haven’t. It’s pretty fucking hard to […]
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The Tool Box Conversation
The other day I was talking to a friend who has a daughter in high school. She was telling me how her daughter had a rough year this past year. My friend was telling me how she and her husband got their daughter into therapy, how the therapist explained to them and to their daughter that […]
It’s time to treat the relationship.
I have written about my thoughts on marriage before. You can read them here. If you don’t have time to read that, here are the cliff notes: Marriage is really fucking hard. And that’s when things are going pretty well. You know we are going through a very difficult time financially. That doesn’t make marriage any easier. Throw seven […]
What I learned in therapy this week
There is a lot of stuff swirling around in my head. All the time. It can be a little chaotic in there. Lots of ideas. Which lead to lots of tangents. And sometimes I have a hard time staying focused. Okay. Almost all the time I have a hard time staying focused. Once something pops […]
What I learned in therapy this week: I’m still working on that 90%.
I have been working really hard to teach the kids that the only people they can control are themselves. That they cannot make other people do what they want them to do, or what a reasonable person would think someone should do. I have really been trying to teach them that the only thing they can […]
What I learned in therapy this week.
This past week was quite frustrating for me. The weather is seriously pissing me off. My kids keep getting sick. I can’t get into a groove. There are all these things I want to get done and when I can’t get to them I become kind of bitchy. Okay. Majorly bitchy. Especially with the kids. […]