How I Proposed to My Husband (or Got Him to Propose to Me)

Although it seems rather gauche, women have been proposing to men since the beginning of time, and I don’t see any change in the situation. My son’s girlfriend proposed to him. I’m a little leery of a couple of twenty-somethings getting married before either has a college degree. If one or both had a full [...]

My Last Post (Meaning “The End”) About My First Marriage

There are many things regarding marriage that can be seen as Big Red Flags. The Biggest Red Flag would be to spend your honeymoon night with your brand new mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and two brothers-in-law.
Yes, all six of us spent the night in a one bedroom apartment.
After that, things went down hill from there.
We argued a [...]

A (Hopefully) Short Post on My First Marriage Part I

(I failed. I’ll post Part II tomorrow.)
It was fall 1973. I was a senior in high school, scheduled to graduate the next year. I was a pretty good student, not valedictorian material, but made it to the top ten percent of my class, and that’s without even trying. (If you must know, I was extremely [...]

Today is My Parents’ Anniversary

They were married today in 1954, 1958, and 1964. Once in a foreign country, once by the US State Department, and once in the Catholic Church.
My father and mother were divorced back in the 1970s, and my mother died fifteen years ago, but he always remembers.
True love never dies.