Gadgets to save/sustain a Marriage.

According to the Freakonomics (hello, I loved that book so so much! and love the blog too) blog at New York Times GPS is a tool that can be used to save your marriage. GPS = less arguing about directions and less wasted time = happier wife = happier life.


P got a GPS for his bday from his Parental Care Units. Together Forever Baby.

"Stirring-the-oatmeal" love

From this week's The Huffington Post:

To improve your relationship make sure you can distinguish romance from love:
In his book "We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love," Robert A. Johnson distinguishes human love from romantic love. When we yearn for a forbidden, passionate romance like in "The English Patient" or The Bridges of Madison County, we are often blinded to the beautiful, committed love that is with us in every day life, the "stirring-the-oatmeal" love.

Johnson writes:
Stirring oatmeal is a humble act--not exciting or thrilling. But it symbolizes a relatedness that brings love down to earth. It represents a willingness to share ordinary human life, to find meaning in the simple, unromantic tasks: earning a living, living within a budget, putting out the garbage, feeding the baby in the middle of the night.

I love this thought, and I think P and I will have a great weekend (stirring the oatmeal, but not really since that is one of only a few things in the entire world I will not eat) catching up with friends, watching movies, walking the Franco, taking care of business and enjoying our humble, committed love.

You have to be pretty committed to regale your entire extended family with your engagement story. P explains the minutia at our February 14th Engagement Party.