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What Does it Mean to Support a Marriage?

There is a poignant scene in the juvenile fiction book Caddie Woodlawn. A family in the community is inter-racial. The mother is American Indian, while the father is white. The children are repeatedly called “half-breeds” throughout the book, which I’m sure is an accurate portrayal of early America. There isn’t officially a divorce in the book {were there officially marriages on the plains at that time anyway?}, but the father sends the mother away. The scene I can’t get out of Continue Reading…
January 12, 2011
Thinking Through The Introvert Advantage {What’s Love Got to do With It?}

The Introvert Advantage:How to Thrive in an Extrovert Worldby Marti Olsen Laney, Psy.D.I don’t think I’ve ever read a chapter on dating and marriage which didn’t use the word love, but this one didn’t. At least, I don’t think it did. I didn’t really notice this problem until the end. I just kept waiting and thinking that love would come up. But it didn’t. So then I scanned back through the chapter. There was a single usage that I could Continue Reading…
February 9, 2010
Women Behaving Badly

I already mentioned that I thought Reforming Marriage was aggressive toward husbands. I meant this in a good way. Very few marriage books are written in such a way that the men are addressed as leaders. However, it wasn’t until two nights ago that I thought Wilson was being too easy on women. In discussing the differences between men and women in the area of communication, Wilson writes: For example, suppose a husband comes home from work, and it occurs…to him Continue Reading…
May 29, 2009
Authenticity and Emotions

I‘ve spent some more time thinking over this concept of what I called divorcing authenticity from discipline. On the one hand, when it comes to, for instance, education, I think that love of the subject best compels us. On the other hand, I think it is human nature to shirk hard work. I have a child who I think will adore math, especially as that child matures, but I also know this child well enough to know that the second Continue Reading…
May 28, 2009