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Starting Over at 28.

My friend, Y, has a problem. She has just broken up with her boyfriend of six years.  Read more >

How to Make a Love Map for Your Relationship

In our spring clean-up this week (more on that later), I unearthed a file of papers from when Den and I did our pre-marriage education weekend earlier this year. In Australia, these weekends are generally a prerequisite for marrying in any given church – though after being pleasantly surprised by the genuinely great information we were given during the course, I highly recommend some form of it to any couple getting married.  Read more >

In Defense of Marriage

In my recent web-travels, I stumbled across Sandra Tsing Loh’s “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” article, complete with subheading ‘The author is ending her marriage, isn’t it about time that you did too?’ I am deeply disturbed, and I’m trying to put my finger on why. I’m not usually a ‘I’m-going-to-write-a-letter-about-this!’ kind of person. I do not generally have the emotional reaction to pieces of writing that I do about this particular essay.  Read more >

Nesting.

Something strange has happened to me since our wedding. I’m not sure how much it’s affecting Denis, apart from the fact that two days after our wedding he turned to me and said ‘Let’s have a baby now!’ Now, we have a four year plan. A plan that doesn’t involve children or even our first house until, oh, say… 2013. But. I. Can’t. Stop. Myself. It’s not even just the clucky let’s-have-babies urge that I’m talking about. That pops up every now and then, but is easily kept at bay by rational thoughts.  Read more >

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Emma Merkas
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August 2009
About Me: 

Newspaper columnist and blogger about all things relationships. My husband and I built $30 Date Night from scratch - it's a website full of date idea inspiration for couples when planning their regular date nights together. Australian-made and bred, I am a foodie, a fashionista and I devour novels just about whole.   

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