Today I’m sharing an insightful guest post from a 20-something learning to trust her gut . Advice is not to take, but to take in and see what fits for you. In the end it can help you learn to trust your own instincts. Sometimes there is a big difference between something that is not […] Read more…
Posts Tagged ‘love’
Believing in Marriage Means Believing Each other
So many people talk about marriages having ebbs and flows. But it’s hard to know what that means in your early twenties when the longest relationship for most is the one they had with their parents. This reader recently submitted her story with 40:20 Vision about what she calls her “untraditional yet fulfilling 15+ […] Read more…
What I Know Now….Live Life in the Next 30 Seconds
One inspiring woman’s perspective on what she knows now that she wishes she knew in her twenties. – 40-something, executive, international marketing and advertising, married, has been through ebbs and flows personally and professional and has no regrets! On body image “Take all the energy that goes into worrying about being fat and put it […] Read more…
Why Are You Married?
June. Wedding season. And also time for all the articles on “Why You Are Not Married Yet” and the release of the Tracy McMillan’s book of the same name. You can see her six reasons why here on The Huffington Post. I do find some truth in her six points. I mean who wants […] Read more…
Happily Ever After Can Change
On Friday I answered a question from a 20-something asking what if it’s difficult to be single at 40. The answer was…no harder than being married at 40 and probably easier than being single in your 20s (you likely have more money than when you were younger and less responsibility than being married at 40). […] Read more…
An Expectation for Marriage
We often talk about what doesn’t change when you get married. This woman has a good take on what does change..in a good way. “A good expectation for marriage is so basic. The best advice I got was from a friend. An older guy. He said, ‘You really, really want to marry someone who is […] Read more…
Enriching Your Life
A woman I interviewed recently had a wonderful piece of advice about marriage and partners. “That person in your life should enrich your life. Make your life more fun, more awesome, more great. They should make you feel more beautiful than you already do. Not the opposite.” I love the distinction that it is about […] Read more…