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Marriage Isn’t For You

Marriage Isn’t For You
Kim and I Having been married only a year and a half, I’ve recently come to the conclusion that marriage isn’t for me. Now before you start making assumptions, keep reading. I met my wife in high school when we were 15 years old. We were friends for ten years until…until we decided no longer wanted to be just friends. :) I strongly recommend that best friends fall in love. Nevertheless, falling in love with my best friend did not prevent me from having certain fears and anxieties about getting married. Then, one fateful night, I shared these thoughts and concerns with my dad. Perhaps each of us have moments in our lives when it feels like time slows down or the air becomes still and everything around us seems to draw in, marking that moment as one we will never forget. My dad giving his response to my concerns was such a moment for me. It was in that very moment that I knew that Kim was the right person to marry. My father’s advice was both shocking and revelatory. Like this: Like Loading...

How to Change Your Life: A User’s Guide ‘You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.’ ~Mike Murdock By Leo Babauta Start with a simple statement: what do you want to be? Are you hoping to someday be a writer, a musician, a designer, a programmer, a polyglot, a carpenter, a manga artist, an entrepreneur, an expert at something? How do you get there? Do you set yourself a big goal to complete by the end of the year, or in three months? I’m going to lay down the law here, based on many many experiments I’ve done in the last 7 years: nothing will change unless you make a daily change. I’ve tried weekly action steps, things that I do every other day, big bold monthly goals, lots of other permutations. If you’re not willing to make it a daily change, you don’t really want to change your life in this way. So make a daily change. How to Turn an Aspiration Into a Daily Change Let’s name a few aspirations: How do you turn those lofty ideas into daily changes? You get the idea. How to Implement Daily Changes

The Origins of Wedding Traditions in the UKIvy Ellen Wedding Invitations « Ivy Ellen Luxury Wedding Stationery | Luxury Wedding Invitations There are so many different wedding traditions that people carry out throughout their celebrations that have been a part of a couple’s big day for hundreds of years. At the moment you are probably organising for some of these wedding traditions to happen during your own big day, but have you ever wondered why these events occur? Listed below are some examples of these wedding traditions and how they came about. Wearing a white wedding dress – When Queen Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840 she wore a white dress instead of the traditional silver robes all her predecessors had worn before her. This started a trend and brides who usually wore their best dress started having a special white dresses made especially for their wedding day. Wearing a bridal veil – It has been the wedding tradition for the bride to wear a veil since all marriages were arranged by the bride and groom’s families.

healthy light lasagna recipe Today I’m sharing my girl Stacy’s Italian Stallion Lasagna & Lasagna Cup Recipe. This low carb recipe is noodle free (replaced by eggplant), is packed with veggies & lean meat and has a yummy sauce. I know Stacy through the Fox Midwest show The Spiel (she appears regularly as The Healthy Hippie Chef)and boy can she make some amazing food that is lower calorie/fat but certainly doesn’t taste like it! This is definitely a favorite and I love the lasagna cup idea (pst those are only 160 calories!!!) Let’s get cookin’ Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.Peel eggplant and slice lengthwise into thin pieces.Coat baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray. Serves 8-10 Lovin her Light Lasagna Cups: Prepare recipe as you would for the Italian Stallion Lasagna (page 50). Using the larger 6-cup muffin tins, lightly brush extra virgin olive oil in each cup.Cut eggplant in half lengthwise and press it around the sides of each muffin cup. *makes 6 lasagna cups Linkedupon:DomesticSuperhero

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments This Map Shows The Average Marrying Age Around The World Curious as to what age people tie the knot in different countries around the world? This informative map, produced by Pricenomics, should offer a pretty good answer: The map, which uses data provided by the United Nations, shows the average age -- by country -- at which people get hitched. "The biggest differentiator of marriage age seems to be a country's income, with people in developed countries marrying later," writes the price comparison website of the data. In the United States, the average marrying age for women is 26.9 and for men it's 29.8, per a 2011 report by the Pew Research Center. However, though people seem to be waiting later to get hitched in many countries around the globe, marriage still seems to be a popular life choice in most places. "In all but a dozen or so countries, 80 percent of men and women have been married by age 49, and even more people commit to comparable or similar 'consensual unions,'" Priceonomics writes.

So Many Books... So Little Time | continuants: acepalindrome: rachelraygun: ... 10 Mind-Blowing Theories That Will Change Your Perception of the World | Reality is not as obvious and simple as we like to think. Some of the things that we accept as true at face value are notoriously wrong. Scientists and philosophers have made every effort to change our common perceptions of it. The 10 examples below will show you what I mean. 1. Great glaciation. Great glaciation is the theory of the final state that our universe is heading toward. 2. Solipsism is a philosophical theory, which asserts that nothing exists but the individual’s consciousness. Don’t you believe me? As a result, which parts of existence can we not doubt? 3. George Berkeley, the father of Idealism, argued that everything exists as an idea in someone’s mind. The idea being that if the stone really only exists in his imagination, he could not have kicked it with his eyes closed. 4. Everybody has heard of Plato. In addition to this stunning statement, Plato, being a monist, said that everything is made of a single substance. 5. 6. Enternalism is the exact opposite of presentism.

Couple Performs 'Dirty Dancing' Scene At Wedding, All Signs Point To Awesome Marriage Ahead It's pretty much impossible to hate anything "Dirty Dancing" related, and this video is no exception. Terra and Drake Otto tied the knot earlier this year. During the reception, the newlywed couple performed a surprise dance from the iconic 1987 film "Dirty Dancing" for all of their guests. And yes, it was that dance, Baby and Johnny's triumphant performance -- heroic lift and all. Video of the reception was posted on YouTube and has been making the rounds on the Internet ever since. In the video above, you'll see that the couple didn't just go through the motions. Then, check out more amazing wedding dance videos in the slideshow below. Loading Slideshow Forever!

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