by Shadra Bruce | Keeping Marriage Strong
Whether you’re just starting the dating and relationship process or you’ve been married for 30 years, relationships take work, compassion, understanding and effort. Here are 10 steps you can take to having better relationships: 1. Change from an inward to...
by Shadra Bruce | Keeping Marriage Strong, Travel
Today was a really special day for Dave and I in our travels. We left Newport and drove up 101 – a beautiful drive if you ever get the chance – to Seaside, Oregon. Seaside is special to us because it is where Dave – on one knee, in front of the whole...
by Shadra Bruce | Keeping Marriage Strong
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce The biggest key to having a successful relationship with anyone else is to first have a successful relationship with yourself. In fact, I would say loving yourself and knowing yourself are so important that it is worth not having a...
by Shadra Bruce | Keeping Marriage Strong
by Shadra Bruce I am renewed. Happy. Joyous, even. I think my blood pressure is even lower. Why? Because my husband and I just escaped our normal routine and responsibility to spend six days away from home. Six glorious days away from work, phone calls, client...
by Shadra Bruce | Keeping Marriage Strong
Even in the supposedly enlightened 21st Century, my husband and I face criticism for the lifestyle we’ve chosen. It’s not all that out of the ordinary; it’s simply that I am the primary breadwinner who works full-time (albeit from my home) and Dave...
by Shadra Bruce | Keeping Marriage Strong
MomsGetReal™ is thrilled to introduce our newest Contributor Brenda Neighbors My husband and I have been married for 5 years, this year, and we have never celebrated Valentine’s Day. We both agree the holiday has been taken over by red roses, teddy bears, chocolates...