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    Staying Healthy: Time for Us

    An intimate relationship is one of life’s greatest pleasures.  But it also takes planning and work.  We all need to make being together a priority.  Otherwise, life takes over and the relationship with your spouse takes the back-burner. I ran across a blog-post this morning that I would highly recommend reading from Warren Baldwin, titled “Marriage: The Difficult Years“ While we often look at the similarities we share with the person we love, the differences cry out for recognition. Our bodies, communication, and emotional/mental processing are different. We both crave intimate connection with our spouses, but experience it differently; one uses communication to bond, the other to convey information; one looks for…

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    10 Tips for a Healthy Marriage … on Facebook

    A Very Happy Valentine’s Day to our military-families! I will honestly tell you hubs and I have no plans. I am a little sad about it but not terribly over-worked. It is hard with a young family to get out in the middle of the week as a couple. We certainly find time to ‘date’ each other but this Valentine’s Day does not entail a dinner out, fine dining and dancing. I am thinking it will involve a homemade pie, chocolate, wine, and most hopefully some candles, backrubs, lights down low … and a sleeping six-month old.. There is more to a healthy-marriage though then time alone. What about time…

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    Valentines Day Dress It Up!

    Valentine’s Day!Pure fun.Simple decorations can turn a coffee table into a place to sit and talk, read poetry and remember that romance is alive and well and living within! Candle holders of every shape and size bring warmth and generate smiles. Pinks and reds carry the love theme. Have fun decorating, and do not worry about perfect matches! Need some great poems? Here are some snippets. Lord Byron is there for you!“She Walks in Beauty” She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that’s best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes…… “To Ellen”Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire,A million…