Image credit: Photo by idlelight on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A few months ago, a friend of mine, who is a single mom, asked me if I'd be willing to help her out while she worked late, because she'd missed a few days taking care of her son when he was sick and now [...]
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Grief and Recovery
Image credit: Photo by Creativity+ Timothy K Hamilton on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When I first found out about my husband's sex addiction, a therapist suggested that I go to a grief support group. The suggestion felt so uncomfortable to me that I never did follow through on it. I thought, "How are these [...]
Dream State
Image credit: Photo by Joe Thorn on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When I have nightmares, my subconscious doesn't like to get imaginative. There are no weird surrealist scenes. There are no horror movie serial killers. There are no dank and mouldering castles. It likes to stick with what it knows: my children in danger [...]
This Is Not my Life
Image credit: Photo by mtraker on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Just before my son Austen was born, Mark and I bought a video camera, so that we could document each special moment of his new life. Of course, the milestones, like Austen, were quirky: giving his earliest smiles to a beloved bottle of hand [...]
It Doesn’t Matter
Image credit: Photo by lapidim on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My husband and I left the kids with a babysitter and went out on a date last night. Mark had a work crisis he wanted to deal with before leaving the office, so to save time, I decided to meet him there rather than [...]
Take a Chance on Me
Image credit: Photo by tealchic on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When my husband and I were first falling in love (ages and ages ago), I was dating someone else. I did to my ex-boyfriend what my husband would one day do to me: betrayed him in the worst way. Mark and I were friends, [...]
Burn, Baby, Burn
Image credit: Photo by alecani on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When Austen was a baby, a friend of my husband's gave him a stuffed camel, which she brought for him all the way from Israel. However, Austen never showed much interest in toys without wheels or numbers. The sole exception was a stuffed rabbit [...]
But It Was an iPhone Glitch, Baby!
Image credit: Photo by CJ Sorg on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons The Junky's Wife recently forwarded me a news story about a woman who posted a question to Apple's support forum about a possible problem with her husband's iPhone. "Susan042764" from New Jersey asked if there was any known issue with iPhones attaching and [...]
I Rock at Not Being a Sex Addict
Image credit: Photo by Lori Greig on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When my husband first started recovery for sex addiction, I used to try to give him these helpful practical tips for how to not cheat on me. After all, I was very successful at not cheating on him. In "Not Cheating on my [...]
Journaling
This post was originally published at The Second Road on October 4. Image credit: Photo by ryan loucks photography on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My daughter, Janie, came home from kindergarten this week excitedly telling me about the journal she has started keeping at school. At five, she and her classmates can't write much, [...]
