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Of Marriage, Life, Art and Loss

11.29.2009

Regardless of the causes, I am dealing with an enormous loss, and the agony of watching him erase himself. It is the antithesis of creating. It is chaos as well as inertia.

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Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a MidLife Crisis

10.07.2009

It’s called coming to a crossroads. You don’t know whether to turn
left or right.

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Midlife Crisis and Reinvention

08.06.2009

“Your right to throw a punch stops at my face.” I remember hearing this expression years ago as a basic definition of freedom in the United States. I thought of it more recently when I read Jon Gosselin’s plea for public understanding of his romances and his new career as a clothing designer so soon after [...]

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In Sickness and In Health

06.06.2009

I’m missing writing on ByJane. I’m missing doodling with keyboard and I’m missing venting and I’m missing sharing my every this, that or the other. MidLifeBloggers seems too–I dunno–grownup to just mess about on. Or maybe it’s just me. Maybe I feel too grownup to mess about in public. Whatever. Stuff is going on in [...]

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Jon & Kate Plus 8: Hang ‘em from the highest tree

05.25.2009

I just finished the season opener of Jon & Kate Plus 8. It was painful to watch, especially for anyone who has gone through the breakup of a marriage. Clearly they are each putting on the Brave Face that I remember so well from my own life, and that, perhaps, makes it harder for me [...]

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Forgive and Forget: Can You…Should You…Will You?

02.16.2009

A friend of mine (who knows I am blogging about this) announced a couple of days ago that she had recently caught her husband having an affair with a work colleague.
He claimed it was just a ‘one night stand’.
She asked me what I thought.
Well, to be honest, I was sitting there thinking how much easier it would have been if President Obama had asked for my opinion on the world economic crisis.
I could have answered that question.

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MidLife: When We Can Stop Pretending We’re Fascinated….

02.09.2009

There are occasions when I make my husband absolutely insane. Take Saturday night, for instance. He had spent the entire day playing with his latest gift to me, yet another new universal remote control, and he was almost giddy over it. He was convinced that this was the holy grail of remotes, the one that would finally do what all the others had only claimed they could – allow you to use a single gizmo to control oodles of equipment….So, now, remind me again. Why is it such a terrible crime that I won’t sit down and read up on every new gizmo that he drags home – especially knowing that in a few short months he is bound to tell me that it is now “obsolete” and needs to be replaced?

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Spousal Abuse: Get Your Words Off Me

09.29.2008

Here’s another excerpt from Laura G’s powerful relating of her experience with spousal abuse: By Laura G, of Rebellious Thoughts of a Woman Four years ago, on a Sunday morning, I was attending a conference for part-time religious school teachers that was aimed at sharing innovative ways to excite and educate our students. Before things [...]

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How I Made It Through HIS Midlife Crisis

09.18.2008

by Celeste Lindell of Average Jane It all started when my husband was in his mid-40s. He’d spent most of his life as a musician, but had recently become a regional sales representative for a wholesaler. That meant he’d cut his hair short and switched his wardrobe to khaki pants and a polo shirt in [...]

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What Love Is – The Other Side of the Story

09.15.2008

A couple of weeks ago, MidLifeBloggers published the first of Laura’s moving posts on an abusive marriage, Get Your Words Off Me.  This week, we’re featuring the other side of the story:  Kris’s description of her  successful marriage. All of us on MidLifeBloggers fall somewhere between these two poles–and we need to be reminded of [...]

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