15 Things You Should Give up to Make Your Marriage Work

Here is a list of 15 things which, if you give up on them, will make your married life a lot easier and a lot happier. We hold on to so many things that cause a great deal of stress and frustration in our relationships – and instead of letting them all go, instead of allowing our…

The Two Traits Required for a Long and Happy Relationship

According to Husband and wife psychologists John and Julie Gottman, there are two main traits which are vital to ensuring a long lasting relationship The Gottmans study marriage stability and run The Gottman Institute, and have spent 30 years learning about what makes relationships last. Amazingly, this boils down to just two main traits. Most of us…

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Vivid

This week’s photo challenge – Vivid A wonderful chance to show some of the incredible colours of our beautiful world. Flowers in my garden and a sunset photo also taken from my back garden.

Weekly Photo Challenge – Broken

I’ve been absent from the challenge for a few weeks as I rebuilt this website from scratch. Same theme, but new address that matches the sites name. At last! So, my first week back and I’m glad it’s not my new site that’s broken. Here’s my entry for this weeks challenge – Broken : In…

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It’s a mess around here!

Hi! If you have happened to stumble upon us, you might notice it’s kind of a mess around here. This blog used to be at the address of Black Cats Ramblings. But I wanted an URL, (address), that matched the name of the blog. So, because I’m cheap, and didn’t want to pay our web…