Renegotiating your marriage with a yearly “relationship summit”
Over on Offbeat Home is where we talk about all the post-wedding-y goodness: marriage, honeymoons, relationships, etc. Last week Homie Cassandra told us about her and her husband’s awesome “relationship summits” that they hold every year on their anniversary…
Let’s talk about “getting wifed”
If you’ve read Offbeat Bride the book you’ll remember that the final chapter is called “Getting Wifed.” We’re talking about that that very post-marital experience over on Offbeat Home & Life…
Tough conversations about marriage: why an online prenup is a good start
Recently, an old friend of mine decided to have a non-legal commitment ceremony… a commitzvah, they called it. For various reasons, she and her dude decided they didn’t want to legally get married, but you know what they did instead? They sat down with a lawyer, and had some really, really difficult conversations and worked out a legally-binding commitment agreement. Conversations about money. Conversations about children and aging parents. Conversations about fidelity and divorce. Realistically, because they opted to build their legally-binding commitment from scratch, they had conversations that many of us planning state-recognized marriages don’t have.
6 pieces of advice from wedding planning transferred to post-wedding life
A year and a bit down the line from our wedding day, I’ve found that the some of the advice I picked up during the process of planning the wedding is still working for us on a day-to-day basis in countless situations. Here are my pieces of life advice that I learned from planning our wedding…