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This is a special day for my parents. They’ve been married 66 years. That’s a long time. Recently I asked them their secret to a long marriage. Commitment, love and faithfulness are three words I heard a lot. It certainly worked for them. And for the three dozen couples I met a couple of weeks […]
Did you hear? If you’re a married couple you’re a rare breed. Closer to becoming extinct. A dinosaur. For the first time, married couples have dropped below half of all American households, according to the Census Bureau. Married couples are now the minority. From The New York Times: Married couples represented just 48 percent of […]
June is wedding month. Newlyweds may think their financial situation doesn’t matter because they’re in love. But a recent survey from American Express found that 50% of couples say the financial habits of their partner drive them crazy… and 75% have financial secrets they’ve kept from their spouse. So money does cause a little stress […]
My wife walks in the door this morning, and the first thing she says is, “Wow, what’s that smell?” “Happy Valentine’s Day honey,” I yell out. “Your gift just came.” That gift was the Valentine’s Special from Omaha Steaks. And it wasn’t just a couple of days late. It was a couple of weeks late. […]
My wife says I can be a bit nostalgic at times. Guilty. As I get older, I have more memories. Makes sense. Over the weekend, I even conjured up the memories of a family I’ve never met. It was at one of her open houses. My wife is a realtor, and sometimes I keep her […]
Here’s another one of those surveys or studies that make you say, “They spent time and money to come up with that? That’s a no-brainer.” Yeah, they did. Brace yourself. Wait for it. Okay, here it is: A recent survey found that not all couples are in sync financially. And that can lead down a […]
I’ve always been fascinated by time. As a kid it never went by fast enough. I was sent to my room as punishment, and the minutes I spent in solitary confinement would drag on like hours. The school day and year seemed like it would never end. And that piano recital as a ten year […]
Updated 2.9.11. Check out “Hey, I’m in the Wall Street Journal” Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a polygamist. But I’ve had many wives, sometimes more than one at a time. How many of you can say that? I’m talking about my “TV wives”, as I call them. I lost one of them recently, […]
