Learning to Love
There's not much to life when you don't like people. I didn't value men and I thought women were boring - I didn't trust anyone.
Becoming a career woman enabled me to find fulfilment outside of relationships. I joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as a plain clothes officer in 1977, three years after women were first allowed in.
I really...... >Read More
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Broken on the Back Row
In the backseat the younger three kids—toddler Erin in her safety seat and the kindergartner twins, Jonathan and Jennifer sitting beside her—were quiet for once. They didn’t understand why yet another change had to happen in their lives but they trusted me to keep them safe and make things okay. Beside me in the front seat my oldest child,...... >Read More
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When Love Is Not Returned
My Auntie never threw out a thing! Not a newspaper or a jar, not a plastic container or a box. Her house was unbelievable, indescribable. Years ago we grown nieces determined not to take our babies there for fear of them getting sick in the mess and the smell. Mom says the mess was small back then.
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Coping with Change
It’s been said that the only constant in our world today is change. As we look back over our marriage to this point, we would have to agree.
We have faced our fair share of uncertainty, surprises and transitions. In a period of just eight years, we experienced:
A move into our dream home, which Denise had designed
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Empty Nest: Season of Change
Last night, while going through an old box of pictures of my children in their growing up years, I reviewed the seasons of change that we have all gone through. The baby pictures, school year pictures, and works of art made for me for Mother's Day, my birthday and other holidays warm my heart even more now.
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Emotional Abandonment: Shut out by your spouse
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It's a complaint I hear regularly from people looking for help for their marriages:"I feel distant from my spouse." "I try to get my husband to open up, but instead he just shuts down." "My wife just doesn't seem interested in me anymore. I feel like... >Read More
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Building Your Mate’s Self-Esteem
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Junk Food Marriages
Are you lacking intimacy in your relationship? We are here to talk.
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What Do You Fear?
