Marital Talk

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Planning a wedding is supposed to be both one of the most stressful times of your life and one of the most fun. Together with your fiance, you get to plan the one day when all of your nearest and dearest will surround you and proclaim your love with you. With just three months to go until my wedding, I’m excited to be here, blogging about some of the hits and misses I’m discovering on my own personal road to wedded bliss.
My name is Robyn, and I got engaged in early September. My fiance (whom I lovingly refer to as The Monkey) and I have been living together already for two years, and have dated a year more than that, so I’d figured by the time a ring was on my finger and we were talking forever, it would all fall into place quite easily. With that in mind, we planned on getting married at the end of March, giving us just six months to plan our wedding.

You read that right. Six months to plan a wedding.

Halfway through, all the major decisions have been made and now we’re down to all the smaller details. You know, the ones that will most likely drive me to binge drinking and crying jags in the fetal position. Good times!

Through all this, I’ve been thinking a lot about how our life together will change once we get married. And since Jerri has so kindly given me a wee bit of free reign here to discuss my preemptive thoughts on marriage, I’m hoping to explore some of that with the readers of Marital Talk.

So thanks for having me! I’m excited to talk marriage!

Robyn

my purpose in writing this is to ask for guest posters once again.  I had some great guest posts last time and right now I am running the 12 Days of Christmas Give Away on Mom~E~Centric, Mom is Teaching and Education Uncensored.  So, if I don’t get anything extra besides the contest and the winners up on those blogs it would be ok, but I prefer content along with the opportunities to win.  And, you too can enter the contests and try to win.  There’s 4 chances on 3 blogs and with such a low readership that I have, winning should be fairly easy. 
But, that’s not why I am writing this, I tend to ramble, can you tell? Here’s what’s happened.  My aunt in Florida has cancer and is in the hospital.  My mom is leaving Monday morning going down there.  That means that I have to work AND entertain a 4 year old all next week and the next and probably all the way up til Wayne is off for Christmas.  ALONE!.  Next on the list is the fact that my cousin is getting married on Saturday afternoon.  And, I went to the rehearsal dinner tonight because my husband and I are doing the photography.  Well, while i was there…..like 5 minutes after I walked in the building….I was handed a piece of paper with the words "Director" written at the top.  She smiled that sweet smile and said, "can you do this too?"
And, I mean, it is just wrong to tell a bride-to-be no so…..I’ve got to prepare for shooting my first wedding, directing one of many weddings (but she is doing some funky stuff and I don’t know any of the grooms parents - and step mom doesn’t talk to real dad and brother doesn’t speak to someone) and I’ve agreed to do all that along while keeping up 10 blogs, keep up with a 4 year old and help decorate for this wedding on Friday night.  Did I mention our Christmas tree hasn’t been put up yet?

And, the straw that breaks the camel’s back here…………….I don’t have any clothes that fit me to wear to the wedding.  I am huge right now and I couldn’t get anything to fasten.  So, that means…I must go shopping sometime.  Yea right.  Add to that the fact that since I’m directing and Wayne and I are doing photos…..I’d like to wear pants and I’m going to ask the bride-to-be tomorrow about it, so we shall see.  However, she is not going down the aisle to the wedding march and she and the groom are walking out to "I’m a believer….and I saw her face…." which just totally cracked me up.

Now, since you’ve heard my sob story and you already know about the TMJ crap (which this expensive mouthpiece seems to have helped a lot) and you know that I’ve not had to take care of this particular 4 year old all day and night without any intervention from a grandmother since July…..oh please, just pray that he lives through it. 
Ok, so the topic of the guest post is……………….anything you want.  If you need a place to blast someone and don’t want to do it on your blog, I got room for you.  If you need to tell a sad story but don’t want all of your readers to know….I got room for you.  If you have a passion…homeschoolling, public schooling, pregnancy related, depression, anxiety, marriage…..you want a write about it…I got a place for you.
I"m going to close this email by begging….PLEASE!

Tis the season for blogger contests and honestly, I’ve had a blast.  I’ve only won one thing but my own give away has been just as much fun.  Anyway, you can find a Land’s End contest and give away on Blonde Reviews and I mean, who doesn’t like Land’s End?

So go, go find all these blogger contest and just keep entering until your heart is full!  Go…I’m waiting…Because you could really find your own spouse something wonderful if you could win this contest or you could buy yourself something special and surprise them with it.  Go, now…I’m waiting…..

So, let’s make this a little easier, ok?

Entries:

1.  Comment here on my blog for 1 entry.

2.  Post on your blog with my link, the sponsors link and a button for an extra entry.

3.  Twitter @jareason with contest link and sponsor link for an entry.

4.  Subscribe to my feed for an extra entry. 

There’s the links, all you have to do is comment and you will be entered to win!  Easy as Pie.  If you want extra entries, then you can do the extra steps!

Good luck!  And, by the way, there’s some good prizes coming up very soon!

So, I’ve been married 4 times.  I’ve made no bones about the fact that I definitely know how to do marriage the wrong way.  The question is, do I know how to do it the right way even?  It could be that I’ve just ran into a man whose easier to get along with, or maybe not.  It could be I finally met someone who loves me and I love equally. 

I can’t say that I was ready for marriage when I got married the first time but I did it and I had a huge wedding.  One of my bridesmaids tried to convince me not to, apparently she saw something that I didn’t.  After that, I basically didn’t have any friends at all, not just friends that would say, "hey, don’t marry this second time because you are making mistake".  I truly didn’t have any friends, period. 

And, you know that no one ever listens to their family because what do the know, right?  So, I rebound married and it didn’t even last a year. 

The next time I married I was running from everyone.  Again, I had no friends, not just no close friends, I had NO friends.  I am not kidding you at all.  So, I made yet another terrible mistake.  I was lucky that this marriage didn’t end my life because he was incredibly mean and I should have known that.

Now, everyone loves my present husband, including me, lol.  I really didn’t have any friends when I met him either but my mom was in approval of this one when she wasn’t of the last 2 so that had to mean something. 

So, I give you a place to go check out your Divorce IQ…..it is Divorce360