The Good The Bliss and The Ugly

When I think of my married  life with inlaws the first thing that comes to mind is the TV show "Everybody loves Raymond". Yes we live next door to my parents , actually we live in their house and they live in the granny flat in the back . It all started when they received their mission call and asked us if we wanted to stay in their house while they were gone so we could continue to save for a house of our own. This was great and we were happy to move in , only that was now almost 5 years ago and last I checked a mission call for couples is not that long.  After my parents came home they said we could stay longer and still save , my husband was hesitant but at the same time we still did not have enough saved here to buy a home so we stayed saying it would be only a year longer.  While I am very grateful for this opportunity I do know that its time for us to leave soon . My mum is the classic "Marie Barone" from Everybody loves Raymond , she is all the time just co...

The amount of times I have heard in our family “you never listen to me I have already told you this” is If I had a dollar for every time I have these words in my family I would definetly be one rich lady . The words “you never listen to me” followed by “I told you this already “.  Most of the time my children are probably right they have told me , but they have told me at the same time I am getting for work , running errands, folding washing , looking for my youngest ones footy socks two minutes before his game or multi tasking in some and many other ways. Then there is even worse times when I have said yes to something I wasn’t really paying attention to without even realising and the next moment my oldest is headed out the door to a party or outing when I needed her to be home to babysit and this is something  I don’t even remember discussing. Then that’s when the “your so unfair and never listen to me rears its ugly head and it becomes the battle of the mum and dad again...

T he  most important ideas that stick out in my mind after all the readings this week is  how all infidelity in marriage it is not always a sexual thing . When you think about a spouse cheating or having an affair the first thing that comes to mind is just as the media and movies perceive that of secret meetings at Hotel rooms , working back late with secretaries, secret meetings of any kind that include sexual intimacy with someone who is not their spouse. However the readings shared a different light on this,  that infidelity is not always of a sexual nature , one of the quotes that stood out to me was from Ezra Taft Benson "A good question to ask ourselves is this : would my spouse be pleased to know if he or she knew I was doing this? would a wife be pleased to know that her husband lunches alone with his secretary? Would a husband be pleased if he saw his wife flirting and being coy with another man? My beloved brothers and sisters this is what paul men at when he ...