Arguments happen, but its how we handle them that matters. Love U tells you how to fight right - no, not with your "right!"

Marriage is a joining of not only worldly possessions, but a blending of two personalities into one household. When the honeymoon stage of marriage ends, and the daily grind of chores, jobs, bills and kids begins, differences of opinions will arise. How we handle and accept these differences will either make marriage a success or lead to the doors of the court house before the ink on the marriage license dries.

For most people, marriage signifies the end result of head-over-heels-in-love dating. However, loving someone does not prevent us from having a difference of opinion, temper flare-ups and arguments. What … Read More

My husband and I fought for three hours one Thanksgiving over the difference between a possum and a opossum. He said there was none and I said there was and what was dead on his mom's driveway was an opossum. We would have gone all day if my brother-in-law hadn't settled it with Wikipedia. Answer: Possums are on the Eastern hemisphere and opossums are on the Western hemisphere. For the record, that means I won.

According to an essay on Parenthood.com my husband and I should have probably conceded before a third-party had to get involved. The article explains that … Read More

I’ve been on a bit of a blog-writing-hiatus. Switching jobs, training my replacement, and helping my dad promote the book he just wrote (see www.beyondfossilfools.com to hear the podcast we made, and search Beyond Fossil Fools at YouTube to see the video) has kept my brain too occupied and full to write. Then, on the 5th we left for a road-trip to Canada’s mountains-majesty to attend a destination wedding. We just got home a few days ago. Much more on this later.

Today, I want to write about something I’ve been thinking about for a … Read More

The proverbial "old married couple" actually doesn't fight so much: couples bicker less over time, says a study of 1,500 long-term relationship couples in New Zealand.

Fights were more common for couples in three- to seven-year-long relationships than for those 21 years or more. That makes sense, of course: one would hope that if a couple kept arguing about the same topic for years and years, they'd eventually give up the fight -- or the relationship. This particular study doesn't say anything about the reported happiness levels of the couples, though, which I would like to see before drawing … Read More

"Fine, then. We're done," I hissed, slamming the door as I bolted from my boyfriend's dilapidated Chicago apartment.

"Come back, honey!" he yelled. His number blinked on my cell phone as I climbed into my car. I chucked the phone into the back seat and drove without a destination. Hours later, I called and waited for him to apologize.

After eight years and two children, I can't remember what he did. I'm sure it was horrible—something like buying me chocolate for Valentine's Day (I hate candy and he knows it, so he must not understand me at all), or forgetting to ask … Read More