Category Archives: finding a husband

When Your Spouse’s Memories Don’t Include You

Here’s another strange part of getting married older. Realizing your spouse has a boatload of memories and past experiences that don’t involve you. When you are over 40 and merging your life with another, you come with all kinds of skills, knowledge, convictions and general experience. Good stuff. Except for one thing — most of [...]

Ten Years Ago Today The LBB Saga Began

Exactly ten years ago today, at about the time this post will go live, Husband and I met for the first time. So, Happy Anniversary, Husband! Thanks for marrying me. Thanks for staying married to me. Yep, ten whole years ago we met at this horrible dive bar in town where a local business group was holding an after [...]

It is Okay to Miss Some Things About Being Single. Really.

Husband is on his sixth day of being at Oshkosh-Air Venture, a.k a. the guy’s trip. Woot. I celebrate because this means two things: I have the bed to myself.  So, I am getting great nights’ sleep. I have the thermostat to myself. This means I have been warm in my own house for the [...]

Wed Advice? If It is Tuesday, I Must Be In Hell

Oh, Tuesday. How you vexed me so. Today is supposed to be Wednesday advice day. You know, you write in and I answer (like I know anything). So, here’s my advice to anyone who wonders who they should marry. Marry someone who understands that spending six hours helping you resusitate a laptop is a good [...]

LBB Interview: Yes, You Can Meet A Man In A Desert

The LBB: Lesley, relationship coach, psychologist and writer, age 58 The vicar said in his sermon at Lesley’s wedding, “It soon become obvious to all of us that love was blooming in the desert”. And it had: this late bloomer bride met her husband during a trip to the five deserts of the Middle East [...]