When I think back over the last two decades of my life, there is certainly a lot of ground to cover, which would be a lot easier to do if I had been sober for the first part of it. 20 years ago, I was a mess – just entering my teens… 13 years old and […]
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Unconditional Love — and Letting Go
I don’t think a lot of people understand what they are committing to when they claim to love someone unconditionally. Throughout a lifetime, a person’s inner being will encompass many different identities. Loving someone unconditionally often means loving many different versions of them. Emotions change. Moods change. Personalities change. People… human nature is evolutionary. We […]
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When You Feel Like “Together” Isn’t Worth the Effort Anymore
Every marriage goes through cycles. The truth is, you’ll never be able to stop working at making it work… but eventually, the work will seem much less like work because doing the things that make your marriage successful will begin to come naturally. The worst thing married people can do is lose themselves to other […]
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When the Chemistry is Gone, History is EVERYTHING
I ran across this on Facebook and must admit that I WHOLE-HEARTEDLY disagree with everything about this statement. This mentality is why so many relationships fail. If you think you’re going to spend the rest of your life with someone and never feel like you’ve lost chemistry, you will spend a lot of your life […]
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Relationships: Honesty. Transparency. Openness. They’re Missing…
The one thing that’s missing from most relationships, whether romantic or platonic (or a combination of both lol), is honesty. Transparency. Openness. The reality of each person’s identity is lacking substantially in most cases. Why? Because over time, we change. Personal evolution is an unavoidable result of the human experience. We are told through societal […]
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“What I Love About My Husband” – Week 137: Opposites Attract
My husband is my opposite. He’s not high on words. You won’t get long responses from him or drawn out communiques… He doesn’t allow people into his personal circle even in a general sense and he doesn’t care much to be seen. Social media is not his forte and 9 times out of 10, his […]
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“What I Love About My Husband” – Week 134: Mother’s Day Edition!
I’m a pretty simple woman in a lot of ways. I’m not a high maintenance type. I don’t do big gifts – as a general rule, I don’t want them and I don’t give them. I would much rather invest money in experiences than rack up a bunch of stuff. I mean, except for shoes… […]
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“What I Love About My Husband” – Week 132: He Understands the Importance of My Freedom
My adolescence was peppered with questionable choices and a good bit of time spent in various juvenile lockups… I got expelled from 7th grade, tested out of 8th, started 9th at a private school but halfway through the year I was expelled from there as well. After I exhausted all the chances I was given […]
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“What I Love About My Husband” – Week 131: He is the Sh*t! #OilfieldWife #OilfieldLifestyle
The oilfield isn’t a job… it isn’t just a career. It’s a lifestyle. We don’t live our lives out in days. We live our lives out in hitches, always thinking 8 weeks ahead. We don’t plan based on how we can arrange our schedules – we plan based on what the oilfield dictates HIS schedule will be. I love you, Barry :) I hope you never think that we don’t understand the difficulty, the importance, and even the danger in what you do and the pressure of existing and advancing in a field that literally leaves no room for error. My husband is the shit! I love him for that :)
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“What I Love About My Husband” – Week 129: I Never Have to Ask Him to Change
This morning was quite emotional. I woke up to messages from two friends and a family member basically asking me if my husband was still alive after an explosion that happened on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico hit the news. My relief turned to empathy and grief as I realized that this is a tragedy for 20 families just like mine – families who send their sons, husbands, cousins, uncles, brothers, and fathers off for weeks at a time to risk literally EVERYTHING to earn a living. All men like my husband… If something had happened to him, the last message I received from him would have been the last conversation I would ever have had with him. So today, I recognize that he changes in the smallest, yet most significant ways completely out of the blue because he considers me.
I love him for that.
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