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Common Problems

Solutions for common marital problems and how to overcome them

Two Salaries, Three Jobs, and Nobody Left Over Featured Already read
The Guests Who Never Stop Coming Already read

Common Problems 9 min read

The Guests Who Never Stop Coming

She cooked for fourteen people on a Thursday she had already worked ten hours. He said the words tha...

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One of Them Is Ready for a Baby and the Other Is Not Already read

Common Problems 9 min read

One of Them Is Ready for a Baby and the Other Is Not

She was ready at the second year. He wanted to wait until the debt was gone. Neither of them was wro...

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The Word He Uses When He Wants to Win Already read

Common Problems 9 min read

The Word He Uses When He Wants to Win

He has said it eleven times in four years and never meant it once. She has heard it eleven times, an...

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The Money You Will Never See Again: Lending to Family Already read

Common Problems 9 min read

The Money You Will Never See Again: Lending to Family

It was supposed to be six months. Four years later the money has not come back, the brother avoids t...

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Married, and Living in Two Countries: The Years Spent Waiting for a Visa Already read

Common Problems 9 min read

Married, and Living in Two Countries: The Years Spent Waitin...

They signed the contract in March. The application went in that summer. Two years later they were st...

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The Baby Nobody Met: Grieving a Miscarriage as Two People Already read

Common Problems 9 min read

The Baby Nobody Met: Grieving a Miscarriage as Two People

She was twelve weeks. They had already chosen a name between themselves, quietly, the way you do. Af...

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The Family Group Chat: How a Marriage Gets Managed by Everyone Else Already read

Common Problems 9 min read

The Family Group Chat: How a Marriage Gets Managed by Everyo...

Nadia told her sister one sentence about a hard week. By evening her mother had opinions, her aunt h...

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The Mahr That Was Never Paid: A Debt Families Pretend Is a Formality Already read

Common Problems 11 min read

The Mahr That Was Never Paid: A Debt Families Pretend Is a F...

She found the contract sixteen years later, looking for a school form. The number was there in the t...

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When She Earns More Than Him: Money, Pride and What the Religion Actually Says Already read

Common Problems 11 min read

When She Earns More Than Him: Money, Pride and What the Reli...

She got the promotion on a Tuesday and did not tell him until the following Friday week. That delay...

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