marriage
Marriage is not so much a word as it is a sentence–a life sentence.
I Hate Housework
I don’t work outside of the home. After brain surgery for a Chiari Malformation and with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, I was taken out of work. It has been five years now, and while I still struggle with the physical symptoms and am not able to do the thing I used to, I have settled somewhat. I have accepted that where I am at is as good as it gets. I will not get better. Because of the surgery, though, I will not get worse. The bipolar disorder will never go away, but it can be managed. I have a fantastic mental health team, and an excellent support system made up of friends and family. It doesn’t escape me how blessed I am to have both of those things.
By J. Delaney-Howe4 years ago in Humans
Overseas Marriages & Civil Partnerships in UK Visa Applications
Partners willing to join their spouses or other partner must gain entry clearance with the overseas marriages and civil partnerships application satisfying all the eligibility requirements as stated in the Appendix FM of the immigration rules.
By Nicholas Blake4 years ago in Humans
The Woe-Men
I read somewhere that “A wombed-man (woman); loves, cares, honors, and respects her husband, while a “woe-man” is stubborn, aggressive, clamorous, uncooperative, bossy, arrogant, contentious, ... She is unbending, unyielding, dangerous, and impossible to lead”.
By Olufemi Oni4 years ago in Humans
My Husband Walked Out On Our Marriage While I Was Away But Text Me Everyday Pretending He Was Home
If you have read about the beginning of my relationship with Merv, you will know that he walked out on our marriage unexpectedly, seven weeks after our wedding. If you don’t know this, you will find the whole story here :
By Colleen Millsteed 4 years ago in Humans
My Marriage Lasted Seven Weeks And Yet Eighteen Years Later We Are Still Legally Married
It was 2001 when I met the man that I married, this being my second marriage. It was a very exciting night that we met at a mutual friends house, as we hit it off immediately and thereby started an extremely intense, passionate and soul destroying relationship.
By Colleen Millsteed 4 years ago in Humans
Dixieland
The Two-Four consisted of eight acres, two by width, four by depth, just outside the north most suburb on 87. When it was summer at the Two-Four, it was like a Kiss song—hot, hot, hotter than hell; in the winter, it was just hot. Carter had four kids, two girls, grown and off at A & M, and two boys at home. You had to look hard to realize that the boys weren’t his—a product of his second wife’s first marriage, step-kids. Not to Carter. To Carter, they were his boys. End of story. And Cheryl loved him for that; “Cher,” the lovely and talented, as he called her on his radio show every weekday morning during rush hour (such as it was) in Sendera. The day she saw his body, propped up against a tree trunk on the back one acre, as if he were a migrant worker taking a break against the merciless South Texas sun, was, however, not a weekday morning. That day in fact was a Sunday and the boys, Randy and Shooter, were getting ready to go to the Baptist church down the street. On pleasant days, they could probably walk to the church from the back one. Or at least throw a rock at it. But there were no pleasant days in Sendera. Surely not after today. Not after this particular Sunday in August.
By Conrad Ilesia4 years ago in Humans
The Summer Tanager
The Summer Tanager I can recall the day it perched on my window sill. It was long after Daryl had died. I was sitting out on the front porch filled with attempted determination. I could not decide whether today would be the day I remove his clothes from the closet. It wasn’t just his clothes. I questioned when to get rid of it all. Toothbrush, shoes, tools, his favorite mug. Do I even need to get rid of them? My sister said that this shit is weird, to keep a dead man’s clothes in the house. Niya was giving a bit more than sisterly advice when it came to this topic. Solely because she witnessed her share of arguments, vases being thrown, confrontations with women, the make-ups and break-ups, and the transfer of words as sharp as new knives that can never be taken back. If it were up to her she would burn all of it. I am not as audacious. Not has theatrical. Consequently I simply have several internal meltdowns whenever I try to decide if today was finally the day.
By Natalie Black4 years ago in Humans




