Surreal article from the Atlantic Online promotes the radical idea that parenthood and marital happiness can co-exist. The article How to Keep Parenthood From Making Your Marriage Miserable engages material from: a new report “When Baby Makes Three: How Parenthood Makes Life Meaningful and How Marriage Makes Parenthood Bearable” (PDF), just published in the latest …
This article by Mark Lukach is achingly poignant and is suffused with gentle hope. He writes about life with his wife (married for three years) through her suddenly experienced psychotic break and the following time of recovery. Fear and hope, distance and intimacy, despair and encouragement and the return to a less intense and, in …
I have frequent discussions like this with one of my sons. The other members of the family find it amusing. Him, less so. via
So, plan is, I’m going to meet my grandchild next May. Despite impassioned pleas that I couldn’t be a grandfather before I turn 50, my daughter and son-in-law got on with their lives and started a family. Bonus points to any of you who comment that I look too young to have grandchildren. Having spent …
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