TimeZones and Marriage

It’s weird. I got married 5 months ago. My friend’s sister got married 11 months ago, and now my friend (whose sister I just mentioned) is getting married in 2 months.
In 20 years, 10 years, 5 years, possibly less, we’ll look at each other, tell our kids, and spouses and selves, that we all got [...]

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The Runaway Bride

I have disappeared. I will acknowledge that.
 
 I don’t post on my blog
Respond to emails
Call my friends back
Return my students quizzes the next day
Do basic chores
 
I don’t exist or function as a human being.
 
My friends call me a Blissed-Out Bride.
 
I’ve turned into the worst cliché.
 
Now I’m not here to excuse myself, but rather explain.
 
I think [...]

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Why You Should Get Engaged, Reason #23

I recommend engagement to everyone.
 
Not for the blissful utopia that it is.
 
Where the entire world seems to fade away, have no significance and you seem to float along with a lingering smile.
 
Where you are the center and the world just revolves.
 
Where there is purpose to Monday and Wednesday and Friday, and [...]

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Disengage

I’m writing this piece on behalf of my friend who would like this to serve as a public service announcement.
 I’m talking to you single girls out there (and I suppose myself), who intend on getting married through the shidduch dating system, and to engaged girls who are doubting their sanity.
 Engagement is not the blissful utopia [...]

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