Has your comfort zone become your prison? Taking time to reflect on your life right now can give you the answer. Knowing yourself is the first step in bursting out of your prison. I know there are many schools of thought on this. One is to take baby steps, just put your toe over the zone and see how it feels. If it doesn't feel good then go back to yourself imposed prison!
After 52 years of marriage (and $20 billion in stolen assets), Bernie Madoff's wife Ruth finally calls it off amid hopes of her saving her relationship with her estranged son.
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The officials of Wisconsin Memorial Park cemetery in Brookfield, Wisconsin have decided that it's time to expand their business. With five chapels, a reception hall, and kitchen, they've realized that their facilities are suitable for far more than funerals. In fact, they can't imagine a better place to hold a baptism. Or Bar Mitzvah. Or for that matter, a wedding.
After checking out ConjugalHarmony.com, a mock online dating site feigning to connect prisoners with those on the outside, we gave this phenomenon some closer inspection. The result? There are clearly a bunch of things wrong with dating a prisoner... but there are also some potential perks.
For those who question the maxim, 'love conquers all,' the Los Angeles Times feature, "A Quarter-Century Marriage To A Man Behind Bars," by Joe Mozingo, is a must-read. Meet Pamela Dowden and her husband, Robert Griffin. Dowden. The couple married in Folsom State Prison, beneath a guard holding a .30-caliber rifle, and the bride later drove off the prison grounds to spend her wedding night alone. The best man had recently been caught in metal detectors hiding knives in his rectum; the groom, an inductee into the prison's racist Aryan Brotherhood gang, wed wearing jeans and a prison-issued shirt. Most surprising in this 'love conquer's all' story is the couple's divergent life choices. Griffin's adolescence was marred with heroin addiction, robbery and violence; Dowden married him her first year out of law school. Their pairing is unlikely, too: the couple used to be in-laws. Dowden had previously been married to Griffin's brother, and met her now-beau on his high school graduation day in jail. She grew to know Griffin intimately (that is, emotional intimacy) while writing him letters on behalf of the family. She debated his racist beliefs and mailed him feminist books, like The Second Sex and The Women's Room.
Now that California has legalized gay marriage, prison officials are scrambling to put together policy around it. Most likely they're just going to copy Massachusetts. Why reinvent the wheel?
