Melissa

A Love Story

May 8, 2012

There are couples that fall in love instantly. Love at first sight. We were not one of those couples. And then in other ways I guess we were pretty instantaneous. I met Hubby through my cousin. And I was sooooo not in the mood to meet any more people that day. I screwed up my nose [...]

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It’s Not Just You

February 22, 2012

It’s not just you whose beach holiday gets rained on. It’s not just you who gets a pimple on your nose before a big date or photo. It’s not just you who feels alone sometimes. It’s not just you who gets nervous when they meet people for the first time. It’s not just you who [...]

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Be Your Happy

January 27, 2012

In relationships. At work. With friends. Maintaining relationships with family. Everywhere. You are responsible for your happy. As you are the only one who can make you happy. You own the switch. The button. The lever. It’s all you. Liberating and exciting as that is. Which, in my opinion it is. It comes with a flip [...]

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Three in the Bedroom

August 16, 2011

There was a time in my marriage that I will never forget. It was two and a bit years in. Hubby and I had been together for almost five years. About five times longer than any other relationship I had ever been in. But then, we were kids really, when we got engaged. Barely twenty [...]

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What’s Love Got To Do With It…?

August 5, 2011

[image credit] Before we were married, my father sat my Hubby and I down for a D&M. The topic of choice was marriage. That marriages, just like ALL relationships take work. And work in the sense of commitment, time to tend, to nurture and develop. He should know, I suppose. He and my mother have [...]

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Distance Makes The Heart Grow Fonder… Or Not.

May 19, 2011

[image credit] How does your relationship work? For me, it turns that I have pretty much replicated my parent’s relationship. My Hubby and I have a lot of different interests. Most of the contradictory. So contradictory in fact that we pretty much hate what the other one loves. We enjoy doing things separately. Almost as [...]

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