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Today I had planned an interview with my writing mentor, Mike Leach, whose marriage I hold in high esteem. Whenever I’m unsure of how to tackle something in my own marriage, I call up Mike and listen to his sage advice. But he was sick this week, so I let him off the hook. Yesterday,…

Yesterday was a day in which I better understood why, according to a November 2003 article in “Psychology Today,” 90 percent of marriages involving a person who has bipolar disorder end in divorce; that, according to “The Sidney Morning Herald,” people with bipolar disorder have three times the rate of divorce and broken relationships as…

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. -Robert Quillen

Happy Valentine’s Day to all my special Beyond Blue readers! For today I have compiled my favorite love excerpts for you. Beyond Blue reader Margaret e-mailed me hers: * Like a diamond, real love I durable, shines brightly, and has many facets (Anonymous) * If you love someone, set him/her free. If s/he comes back…

Falling in love has been getting a bad rap recently. Supposedly more sophisticated types suggest that falling in love is an illusion, a state of non-reality because it is based on failure to see the love object as a “real” human being. According to this view, “real” love sets in only at the end of…

For 40 years my act consisted of one joke. And then she died. Gracie was my partner in our act, my best friend, my wife and my lover, and the mother of our two children. We were a team, both on and off the stage. Our relationship was simple: I fed her the straight lines…

A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free, like a country dance of Mozart’s. To touch heavily would be to arrest…

Slowly, awkwardly, with tears streaming down our faces, we reluctantly reached out to one another. Neither of us knew how much strength we had to give, but we were willing to share it. We gave one another something that most friendships are not able to give—vulnerability. Throughout our years together, we had built up a…

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves. -Madeleine L’Engle
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