Non-Expert Marriage Advice
Somewhat recently, i had a conversation with a 65-ish year-old friend of mine at work, at the end of which, she told me that my husband and i should consider being marriage counselors. Well, after 13 years of marriage, i'm confident we aren't qualified to be marriage counselors. But "on the other hand," sang Tevia, i look around me. I talk to people. More often, i listen to people. And i observe that the marriage my husband and i have is significantly healthier and happier than 60% of the marriages around me, young marriages and old marriages alike. So i wonder if i could be helpful. Then "on the other other hand," well, maybe that's too many hands...but marriage has been on my heart a LOT lately. I want to have a way to influence people's ideas about marriage. I think the world has had way too much influence on the concept of what it means to be married, and there are so few of us left who think marriage is forever, that we have to ...