When I dreamt of what it was going to be like to be a mother, I imagined my life filled with love, laughter and happiness. Like one of those commercials where the kids run into the bedroom of a morning and jump on your perfect bed, and snuggle with you under the crisp white linen. …
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Like many things in life, marriage is one of those topics that tons of people have opinions on how to do it ‘right’. But with an average 42% divorce rate, our understanding of what is ‘right’ in a marriage is falling a wee bit short (okay, a whole lot short). There are thoughts and beliefs …
If someone asked you right now if you were a confident person, what would you say? If you’d asked me 10 years ago if I was a confident young woman I would have said ‘absolutely’. 5 years later it was a different story. Our confidence increases and decreases as we move through different times in …
Read almost any article about ‘How To Have a Happy Marriage’ and you’ll find advice saying you absolutely must have a date night, and that date nights are the crucial element to making a marriage work. But the reality is, for many couples, date nights aren’t possible… so does that mean their marriage is doomed? I’m here …
When you see a confident woman, you can be forgiven for thinking they have everything in their life together, sorted, colour coded and filed neatly, because how else would a confident person have it? We look at them and think that it must be so nice to feel so confident in who we are and …
“I just want my husband to be more romantic.” How many times have you heard that, or even said it yourself? But how do you actually go from wanting your husband to be more romantic, to having a husband who understands what romance means to you and makes spontaneous romantic gestures (it’s possible!!). It all …
Have you ever noticed that it’s rarely the ‘big things’ in life that make the most impact on our day to day happiness? More often than not, it’s the little things we do that allow us to live a better life. Which is why when it comes to improving aspects of your life, you don’t …
Back in my early twenties (waaaay back), I thought I had figured out what kind of mother I wanted to be. I thought motherhood was this thing where you feel in love with your child, you somehow magically knew what you were doing and everything just came together. Hillarious hey? What I wasn’t prepared for, …
Being a mother is hard. Like, really freaking hard. And at times it can feel like the whole world is coming down on you, and you can barely even think properly because you haven’t slept a decent night since before TV celebrities became Presidents. While at times it feels like 10 days have rolled into …
Immersed in the happy moments with their families and friends, everyday worries and different responsibilities, people seem to give little thought to long-term planning and retirement, believing that they have all the time in the world to deal with the future. However, time passes quickly and unnoticeably – just think about this year and how …