Tag: communication

Why You Askin’ All Them Questions? {An Ode to Mothering Tweens}

Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen. Those are the candles I will light this year. My youngest three children are officially tweenagers. I blinked and up they...

Tips for Managing a Relationship with the In-Laws

I have been married for almost 14 years and have lived 45 minutes away from my in-laws the entire time. In contrast, my family...

Sharing Emotional Labor in My Relationship

The term “emotional labor” was created by sociologist Anne Hochschild in 1983 to describe the emotional work that is involved in certain professions, like...

Why We Don’t Yell

I had a great childhood, but if I could change one thing about it, I would have stopped all of the yelling and fighting....