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We all know family dinner time is important, but what do you do when one spouse works late most/every night? It can be extremely frustrating to go to all the work of preparing a nice meal, only to receive a phone call saying she is not going to make it home for dinner again. Now you are left serving a nice meal to a handful of unappreciative young children that would have preferred scrambled eggs and pancakes or a peanut butter sandwich.
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Let’s be honest, on a day-to-day basis, the idea of family dinner night can seem overwhelming. It can feel like an impossible feat to prepare a meal that everyone will eat – let alone appreciate. By the time all the kids are corralled and present at the table, somehow utensils turn into weapons and everyone begins fighting over the “favorite bowl.” It doesn’t take long before one sibling is shrieking, “He’s smelling my food!” while another child demands it is his night to say the prayer.
That’s when I give my husband the “Family dinner is highly overrated” look.Continue Reading
The September 2014 edition of Parent’s Magazine featured me in their article on how to keep kids from interrupting.
Children interrupting is one of the more aggravating aspects of parenting. It can seem that no matter how hard you try, teaching preschoolers appropriate manners feels like a losing battle. In addition to the great suggestions offered in the article, here are a few more things you can consider. Continue Reading
The process of pregnancy, labor, and delivery of a baby is a momentous event for couples. Women replay those hours leading up to the births of their babies the rest of their life. They are memories filled with love, tenderness, and excitement, often coupled with anxiety, pain, and fear. The effort that you make for your wife during her labors will have a tremendous impact on your relationship. My dear friend, Cortney Long, is a midwife and doula in Virginia and North Carolina. I have invited her to share some suggestions of what husbands can do to make labor and delivery a relationship strengthening experience.Continue Reading
Often people think that empathy and sympathy are really the same thing, when in fact, they are very, very different.
This short, minute and a half video will explain and have you empathizing with the best of them in no time.
Over the last few weeks, there have been several posts on our Facebook Group – Nurturing Medical Marriages™, about how to not be resentful when medical training requires the non-physician spouse to put their life and career on hold for more than a decade. This is such a hard situation and one that many spouses in medical marriages face. Spouses often have to leave jobs and careers, sometimes very lucrative and promising careers, to move all over the country for training – often in places where their job specialty is not available.Continue Reading
