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I Didn’t Marry My Best Friend
Collin is my husband, and my favorite person in the world, but he’s not my best friend. I don’t think he’s even in the Top 5. Sometimes it feels like everyone else in the world married their best...
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I Married a Puppy and I’m Not a Dog Person
Sometimes my husband annoys the crap out of me when he’s only trying to show me his love. I learned early on in my relationship with Collin that he shows affection for humans the same way he shows...
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The Secret to a Successful Marriage
Want your marriage to last the harsh winter like a squirrel’s acorn supply? It’s quite simple: you need two comforters. Of all the challenges in sharing a bed with my husband—our very different sleep...
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And Now Facebook Thinks I’m Lame
I was a very late adopter of Facebook, for reasons too complicated to get into [wait, not really: 1) I'm a late adopter of everything 2) Around the time I was about ready to "finally" join, I suddenly...
View ArticleHuge. Freaking. News.
No, I’m not pregnant. No, I didn’t get a book deal. No, we’re not getting divorced. We are planning on moving to Cape Town, South Africa in the Spring of 2012. That’s 8,000 miles away from home. I’ve...
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The HitchDied Guide to Cuddling
Cuddling is one of the foundations of our relationship. We talked about cuddling A LOT in our wedding ceremony (one of my favorite comments on the ceremony was from a married couple who said “I like...
View ArticleWino Forever
In the great HitchDied tradition of demented and inappropriate takeaways, my response to today’s superb APW post about merging finances in marriage is “aww, look at that couple’s matching tattoos!” And...
View ArticleSouth African Banking and Feeling Like a Child
Confession: every time there is a “how do you manage marital finances?” post on APW or other marriage blogs, I tend to fall asleep on my keyboard about ten comments in. I really want to care, honest. I...
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FOUR MORE YEARS
Four years ago today, I met my husband. [I'm not going to repeat the details of that terribly embarrassing story, although you can find them in the archive this blog if you are determined to do so. ]...
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Squirrel Proof that Marriage Changes You
When I couldn’t sleep as a child, my dad would tell me to “pretend to be a squirrel.” The thinking was that squirrels have such boring lives that I’d fall asleep by the sixth or seventh acorn. He was...
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