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10/29/2012
Common Sense Economics One of the biggest mistakes newlyweds make today is to purchase a house based on two incomes. I can't understand why my generation (1950's) had so much more economic common sense than young people today. Maybe it's because we grew up with the privation that still existed after the depression. More >>

Tags: Common Sense, Dating, Finances, Frugal, Marriage, Read On-Air, Relationships, Simple Savings, Values
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10/26/2012
Qualities that Make a Marriage Work I found (and it took a while to figure this out -- I'm a guy what do you expect?) some of the qualities I believe make a marriage work... More >>

Tags: Dating, Marriage, Men's Point of View, Read On-Air, Relationships
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10/25/2012
My Life's Journey My 'other' mother used to say if life were fair, we would be born old and die young. She has lived a hard life and I can see where she would feel that way. More >>

Tags: Adult Child-Parent, Appreciation, Attitude, Family/Relationships - Adult Child/Parent, Read On-Air, Values
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10/24/2012
What Selfishness Can Do to a Marriage The thing I love about marriage is there seems to be someone for everyone. We're all different, and finding that person who gets us (or tolerates us) is a feat in itself. More >>

Tags: Behavior, Dating, Marriage, Read On-Air, Relationships, Selfishness
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10/23/2012
Cold Feet Before the Wedding I don't know if everyone experiences cold feet for at least a moment before their wedding, but I think it was healthy for me to have a brush with it. My fiancé and I had been dating over a year and a half, and we were wildly in love. More >>

Tags: Dating, Pre-marital Counseling, Read On-Air, Relationships, Wedding
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10/22/2012
Making the Role-Reversals Work We've been married for 7 years and have 2 wonderful young children. We had juggled our schedules so that while we both worked, one of us was always home with the children. Then I was offered a big promotion that also required a move. I wasn't sure what to do. More >>

Tags: Choose Wisely-Treat Kindly, Homeschool, Homeschooling, Read On-Air, Stay-at-Home Mom, Swim through shark infested waters
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10/19/2012
'Meetings with Santa' A recent call where you told a listener to get up fifteen minutes earlier so she and her husband could make time to 'be together' made me smile, as I thought of how my husband and I created extra time. More >>

Tags: Holidays, Intimacy, Marriage, Parenting, Read On-Air, Response To A Call, Santa Claus, Sex
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10/18/2012
Grateful to Be There When Needed Because I work part-time from home, I was able to save my children from a ridiculously long bus ride to school every day...We only live a mile from our elementary school but their bus ride was an hour long... More >>

Tags: Budget, Job, Parenting, Part-time work, Read On-Air, SAHM stay-at-home mom, Stay-at-Home Mom
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10/17/2012
Marriage Takes Care and Feeding As my 'marriage mentor,' I just had to share with you a tender exchange I had with my husband this morning...His job has been really stressful lately - layoffs left him understaffed and now he works in his office, all day, by himself... More >>

Tags: Dating, Husband's Girlfriend, Read On-Air, Relationships, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands
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10/16/2012
Ready to Be Showered with Love My husband and I had been trying for a child for over two years. I had an ectopic pregnancy that almost killed me, a miscarriage nine months later, and a rash of tragedies and losses that sent my husband and me reeling towards each other. More >>

Tags: Baby, Motherhood, Motherhood-Fatherhood, Parenting, Read On-Air
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