: Catherine Walker
: Boosting Your Joy Happy Little Advice for Your Relationships, Your Career and Yourself
: BookBaby
: 9781543953664
: 1
: CHF 10.50
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: Lebensführung, Persönliche Entwicklung
: English
: 293
: DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: ePUB
Your marriage feels off; your kids rule the roost and run all over you. You're disconnected from your friends. You are moody or get angry often. You don't have adequate time to handle your home or manage your career. You're unsatisfied with where you are professionally and constantly worry about money. And to top it all off, your favorite jeans don't fit. If the joy has been sucked out of your life and you're being pulled in too many directions, Boosting Your Joy will guide you toward reaching both your career and personal goals while filling your life with happiness.

Chapter One

LOVE THE ONE YOU ARE WITH

 

“Choose your Love; Love your choice.” —Thomas Monson

 

Loving someone else is brave. It creates vulnerability to care about someone. But it’s the most rewarding human endeavor. We’re supposed to offer our hearts to one another and love fiercely.

 

My husband Vincent is my favorite person on this earth. I love him madly. He is my whole world. And he drives me crazy. That in a nutshell sums up marriage. You pluck someone out of a bunch of people and hope to craft a joyful life together.

 

My wedding day was the best day of my life, in spite of the fact that a band member stepped on one of our cakes and the baker had to run back and make another one. In spite of the fact that a full glass of wine was tipped down my wedding dress at the first table I greeted during the reception. It’s still my favorite day!

 

The memory of walking down the aisle toward my gorgeous soon-to-be husband Vincent is seared in my brain. He was there at the altar with his eyes shining and his lips smiling just for me. And I was thinking, “Lucky me, I have you. I have you beside me to “do life” with. I have you to be a daddy to my future kids. I have you to shore me up when times are tough.”

 

And twenty-five years later, we have certainly faced some challenges. We’ve raised three daughters, bought two houses and both changed companies we worked for several times. We’ve had lean times with four job losses, losing money in the 2008 stock market crash and having two house payments at once. We’ve had tragedy in our lives with the loss of our four-month old nephew, Logan. We’ve had health scares like dealing with my mom’s kidney failure and encountering anxiety and depression in our household. Life has not always been smooth sailing. I still feel lucky in love.

 

My grandfather was married for sixty years to my grandmother. Pop-Pop as we called him used to always say, “Dance with the one who brung you.” In other words, stay with the one who has stuck by your side. The saying expresses loyalty toward your partner not just in the good times, the easy times or when it suits you, but all the time. Too many people say “I do” and then when life gets hard, they quickly question, “Do I?”

 

A good marriage isn’t something you find. It’s something you make. So just how can you do that?

 

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