Leave the Kids Behind and Divorce-Proof Your Marriage with a Couple’s Getaway
Leave the kids behind if you want to divorce-proof your marriage. I’m not an expert but I know that blissful marriages require routine communication.
Marriage
A Vehicle: A Partnership
The headlight beamed into our garage. It is after 9 p.m. and my husband, and I have been working on the front end of our cranky Volvo for at least two hours. Successfully self-conducted car repairs would be considered a victory if we still lived in Atlanta, GA because I always enjoyed saving money but […]
The Return of the Lost Wedding Dress
Five years ago, I discovered that my wedding dress, photo albums, and a few fragile items with sentimental value ended up in a dumpster somewhere in Atlanta, Georgia. It wasn’t my choice to throw away my beloved sentimental items but that of our property management company. I discovered it long after it had happened, so […]
Balancing Careers And Family Life As An Expat
This post is the second in the Global Women Discuss Love, Loss, and Family Abroad series between the women of the Expat Coffee Club and Knocked Up Abroad. Click here to read the first set of questions and answers between the two groups of women. Amanda: For the past three years, I have been working in […]
What Scuba Diving Taught Me About Marriage
During my third year in college, I signed up for a marine biology course that required a two-week excursion to Honduras for practical application of everything we had learned in the classroom. The scuba training involved sessions in the shallow end of the outdoor university pool. Before we were cleared for diving, we had to […]