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50 Years of Love and Marriage

50th wedding anniversary celebration“She was the most special thing in my life and still is,” says Donald Joye about his wife Phyllis, with whom he’s shared 50 years of married bliss. How incredible is that!

They met in junior high and it was love at first sight. They secretly married while still in high school and somehow managed to keep their marriage secret (their parents had figured it out anyway, but approved and also kept their secret) so they could graduate and Phyllis could still be the homecoming queen. She never had a wedding dress, but had her prom dress altered to fit for their 50th wedding anniversary celebration. Read their fairy tale love story here.

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Women and Men: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, No?

mens and womens different takes on a situationFirst off, I fell off the wagon with blogging. My life took one of those sudden 180 degree turns, unfortunately, right in the middle of the Week of Positive Blogging, which I couldn’t finish. I had to make some major life decisions, drop everything and turn my 100% focus on them. Ah, life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. Sometimes it’s “yay” and other times it’s “nay.” The nice thing is that eventually, even out of a “nay” situation you can come up with some “yays.”

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Can Men & Women Argue & Have A Happy Ending?

how men and women argueThere was an article a couple of days ago in the UK Times Online, “Why men and women argue differently” that started out with a funny story about a married couple in Gapun, a remote village in Papua New Guinea. Talk about cultural differences—or not?! They had a dispute after the wife fell through a hole in the rotten floor of their home and she blamed her husband for lousy workmanship. He retaliated by hitting her with a piece of sugar cane, to which she responded with a threat to slice him up with a machete and burn the home to the ground.

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