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Category: Not-So-Newlywed Adventures

Not-So-Newlyweds: The Life of a Commuter

Posted on March 27, 2012March 28, 2012 by Guests and Former Contributors

  As mentioned before in this series, my husband is a commuter. When we were both offered jobs the same week in towns an hour apart, we couldn’t pass up the opportunities before us. So, Luke said he was willing to drive, and we live in the town where my job is. I am extremely…

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Not-So-Newlyweds: Couldn’t See the Mountains for the Snowflakes

Posted on February 23, 2012February 24, 2012 by Guests and Former Contributors

Since I write this series of posts called “The Not-So-Newlyweds Adventures,” one might assume I lead an adventurous life. While I am committed to finding/making adventure in the most ordinary of circumstances, lately Luke and I have felt like we are in a rut. A boredom rut. We are young and don’t have kids, yet…

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Not-So-Newlyweds: The Fearsome Double Date

Posted on January 31, 2012January 31, 2012 by Guests and Former Contributors

  I had never been on a blind date until I got married. So here’s how it goes. You have a friend, and he/she has a significant other, and you think to yourself, hey, let’s all be friends! It doesn’t necessarily work that way. What inevitably happens (to us) is that I like her, and…

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Not-So-Newlyweds: Resolutions Together

Posted on December 29, 2011December 30, 2011 by Guests and Former Contributors

I don’t think there’s anything magical about turning the calendar to January 1 that makes us all run to our bathroom mirrors to post lists of resolutions. Instead, I think those ideas for positive change are born of actually having time away from our regular schedules to remember who we are and who we want…

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Not-So-Newlyweds: How to Keep the “Happy” in the Holidays

Posted on November 22, 2011November 22, 2011 by Guests and Former Contributors

Remember being a kid and the only holiday stress you had was convincing your parents you were asleep while secretly plotting your position for attempting to catch Santa swooping down your chimney (well, that, and if you’re like me, wondering whether he would come at all, given that you didn’t have that all-important brick structure…

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Not So Newlyweds: Friendship, Love, and Baseball

Posted on October 28, 2011October 30, 2011 by Guests and Former Contributors

We just celebrated our 5-year dating anniversary. I know, I know, once you get married, you’re supposed to focus more on the wedding anniversary than the dating one, but my theory is that without the dating anniversary, there wouldn’t be a wedding anniversary. Five years ago was the fall of 2006. Luke and I were…

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Not-So-Newlywed Adventures: A Brief History of Our Hand-Me-Down Furniture

Posted on September 30, 2011July 8, 2021 by Guests and Former Contributors

Our friends all seem to buying houses. But we have just purchased our first piece of furniture. That is not to say we didn’t have furniture previously, but we hadn’t actually used money to collect any of the pieces we have so far. First, there was Clarence the Couch, who was olive green and stuffed…

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Not-So-Newlywed Adventures: The Great Unknown

Posted on August 25, 2011September 30, 2011 by Guests and Former Contributors

We’ve been through less-than-ideal jobs, prayers answered with “No,” and discontented dwelling in forests of question marks. We have only grown together through all of those situations, but this seemed like something new I wasn’t sure I had the skills to handle.

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Not-So-Newlywed Adventures

Posted on July 26, 2011September 30, 2011 by Guests and Former Contributors

I think the experience afforded me new insight about my new-but-not-so-new marriage and the concept of commitment. Just past our three-year anniversary, we aren’t yet an “old married couple,” but our cheeks are no longer pink from the pinching so often accompanied by, “Awwww, newlyweds!!!”

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