Category Archives: marriage

What Amazing Race is teaching me about relationships.

There isn’t a lot of TV being watched in our house right now, but one show that Tim and I enjoy watching is Amazing Race. I love seeing all of the different places, and I love watching the couples interact … Continue reading

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Being intentional in marriage. (Team Us).

If there’s one area that I’ve found it hard to focus on over the past few months, it’s marriage. Once upon a time (pre-Clara), Tim and I were really decent at prioritizing marriage and thinking about how to improve our … Continue reading

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Is ‘young’ the best time to get married/have kids? I wonder.

As soon as I saw the title to this article, “Hey Young People: Now’s the Time to Get Married and Have Kids” I assumed it was click-bait and didn’t want to read it. But then I did read it because … Continue reading

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Two Years.

If you follow me on Instagram, you know that yesterday Tim and I celebrated our second-year-wedding anniversary. Trust me, with the weather in Chicago right now (a balmy 18 degrees today), I wish we were back in Jamaica (where we … Continue reading

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Thoughts on marriage.

I recently read two different articles on marriage (both posted on Quartz), and they really made me think.  The first article is “Let’s stop pretending that marriage is hard work“. The second article is “It’s time to accept this fact: … Continue reading

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