Treat every day like Valentines Day!

I know, I know I’m a day late in NZ, but not in the States!

My thoughtful Darling gave me a yoga gift card – I think he’s trying to tell me something! haha I have been meaning to get back so I can start chilling out before the wedding…

I did plan on writing a fantastic romance inspiring blog about Valentines Day, but with 3 more weeks to go til the wedding (AAaaarrrghhhhh!!!) I sort of got sidetracked with wedding stuff including a venue visit with the MC and videographer.
But seriously, we are VERY excited and it’s going to be an uber fun day!

So a belated Valentines Day – if you need a card check out http://www.jibjab.com/valentines for ecards – they are hilarious!

Read up on the history which I actually don’t remember knowing… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day
And here’s some cool facts you may not know about love….

♥ Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don’t.
♥ People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left (65 percent of people go to the right!)
♥ When it comes to doing the deed early in the relationship, 78 percent of women would decline an intimate rendezvous if they had not shaved their legs or underarms.
♥ Feminist women are more likely than other females to be in a romantic relationship.
♥ Two-thirds of people report that they fall in love with someone they’ve known for some time vs. someone that they just met.
♥ Falling in love can induce a calming effect on the body and mind and raises levels of nerve growth factor for about a year, which helps to restore the nervous system and improves the lover’s memory.
♥ Love can also exert the same stress on your body as deep fear. You see the same physiological responses — pupil dilation, sweaty palms, and increased heart rate.
♥ Brain scans show that people who view photos of a beloved experience an activation of the caudate — the part of the brain involving cravings.
♥ The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth.
♥ The “Love Detector” service from Korean cell phone operator KTF uses technology that is supposed to analyze voice patterns to see if a lover is speaking honestly and with affection. Users later receive an analysis of the conversation delivered through text message that breaks down the amount of affection, surprise, concentration and honesty of the other speaker.
♥ Couples’ personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
♥ The oldest known love song was written 4,000 years ago and comes from an area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
♥ The tradition of the diamond engagement ring comes from Archduke Maximillian of Austria who, in the 15th century, gave a diamond ring to his fiancée, Mary of Burgundy.
♥ People who are newly in love produce decreased levels of the hormone serotonin — as low as levels seen in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Perhaps that’s why it’s so easy to feel obsessed when you’re smitten.
♥ According to mathematical theory, we should date a dozen people before choosing a long-term partner; that provides the best chance that you’ll make a love match.
♥ A man’s beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
♥ Every Valentine’s Day, Verona, the Italian city where Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet took place, receives around 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet.
♥ Familiarity breeds comfort and closeness … and romance.
♥ Having a romantic relationship makes both genders happier. The stronger the commitment, the greater the happiness!

Treat every day like Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines!

Blog: Be happy, be a nice wife

Well, when My Darling sent me this link by email today I just cringed.

With the wedding fast approaching I’ve been a tiny bit bridezilla and my poor Darling has been copping the brunt of it! And this was the final straw!!

I refused to read it until he virtually forced me to tonight (after he gave me a very thoughtful and relaxing shoulder massage). And it helped me chill even more, after a good laugh.

Wendyl Nissen: Doing nice things for hubby makes me happy

9:50 AM Friday Feb 7, 2014

Being happy in a marriage is something we all strive for. And those of us who have been married a while know that the couple who say they have never had a fight, never said a bad word to each other or disagreed on anything are either lying or have a serious non-communication issue.

My year of being a supportive wife has changed many things about me, the biggest being that I now enjoy being kind.

Doing nice things for my husband makes me happy.

Which is why I stumbled across The Happy Wives Club. It’s a bestselling book by an ecstatically happy wife called Fawn Weaver.

In the book she recommends that not only should wives be supportive but they should also get it over with and bloody well surrender.

To maintain a happy marriage, you have to write down every day the things for which you are grateful to your husband.

And the kicker is – they have to be different every day. If you do this apparently you’ll be really happy in a matter of days.

I tried doing it this morning and came up with four things, including the fact that he makes me cups of tea.

I’ll be struggling not to repeat myself tomorrow. Apparently if this happens you can write a list of all the things you are grateful your husband is not such as short, fat, repetitive, selfish, a bad kisser etc.

Another thing you must do is kiss your husband on the mouth, with tongues, a lot. And you must not have any friends of the opposite sex, so he never has to wonder if you are having an affair with them.

You must also write down all the things that drive you nuts about your husband and throw them away, forgetting them and getting over it.

And you must not talk negatively to your friends about your marriage.

I may be a supportive wife, but I can do none of these things.

For a start I don’t have time in the mornings to take myself off with my cute Happy Wives notebook and pen, sit in the sun with a latte and doodle sweet nothings about my husband.

Nor do I have time to think about short, fat, selfish men.

I like to kiss my husband but I’m not sure I want to do it every five minutes, breaking into his and my work routine for a quick pash or stopping in the middle of the supermarket for a good tonguing.

My children would not tolerate it for a start – public displays of affection between parents are yuck. (I notice Fawn Weaver doesn’t have any children.)

I would not be willing to give up my male friends either, for one simple word – trust. If your husband sits at home fretting and chewing his fingernails every time you have lunch with a male friend because he’s worried you have whipped off to a motel for a quick hook-up, then there are bigger problems in your marriage.

Having lunch with a man who is not your husband is an important demonstration of trust in a marriage for both of you.

By eliminating my men friends, I’m basically saying to my husband, “You’re right, I’m a cheating whore underneath it all who can’t wait to get into other men’s pants. Best I put temptation out of the way.”

As for the things that drive me nuts about my husband, I am not letting those go.

For a start, they are the root of a lot of humour in my home, and when he asks me if everything’s all right you need to have something to talk about.

And I will talk to my friends in a negative way about my marriage. I have one friend I tell everything to, and without her I would have no way to work through the little hiccoughs that every marriage encounters, however minor.

Sometimes I see her suppressing the urge to laugh out loud at my murmurings, they are so trivial. She knows it and I know it but we talk about it and I feel better. And most of the time she takes my husband’s side which is good for me. She loves us both, she can put it all in perspective.

So while I’m a very happy, supportive wife, there’ll be no Happy Wives Club for me.

– NZ Herald

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Weddings – anything can happen

Our lovely celebrant gave us this great reminder! I’m a control freak so it’s handy to keep in mind!

Weddings are alot like any other occasion in life – anything can happen.
The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor, somewhere. Not only that – anything might go right.
Sometimes the unexpected is an unforgettable moment that transforms a wedding into a memorable experience. The sweetest memories are seldom the results of planning.
Forget fashion shows. Forget a performance. Forget perfection.
Whatever happens gets acknowledged and included.
Whatever happens – we work it in.

Remember, nothing can ruin a wedding if the heart is right and nothing can help a wedding if it’s a military drill.
So relax. Be here. Notice each other. You could walk through fire together.

Robert Fulgham, extract from the book ‘From Beginning to End’
http://robertfulghum.com/index.php/fulghumweb/booksentry/from_beginning_to_end/