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	<description>Exploring lessons learned about love, friendship, faith, and self during my life as a chlidfree stay-at-home wife.</description>
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		<title>Taking a break from the Experiment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 22:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmroch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Experiment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to write a quick post explaining that I&#8217;m going to be taking a break from this blog. Well, I sort of already have been anyway. I&#8217;m just making it official. I still don&#8217;t know whether it will be a permanent break, or just a temporary one. All I know is I&#8217;m trying to simplify my life and pursue the things that give my heart the most happiness. While I do enjoy this blog, the thing that makes my heart sing the most is my other blog, Haunt Jaunts, my fiction writing, and tennis. I don&#8217;t have enough time to do all the things that interest me, and I have to give myself permission to let some go. It causes me anxiety and dissatisfaction with myself when I can&#8217;t get to it all. That&#8217;s not healthy. The remedy is to have less to get to! Perhaps there will come a time when I&#8217;m less interested in other things and can get back to documenting all the lessons I&#8217;ve learned about friendship, faith, love and self during my life as a stay-at-home-wife. For now, the learning will continue, but the sharing will stop. Thanks to those of you who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can the anti-cheating ring end infidelity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmroch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-cheating ring]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know infidelity has gotten out of hand when someone comes up with an anti-cheating ring, right? I first learned of it via my super hip and in-the-know friend Jade Walker. (I swear, she has her pulse on all kinds of stories before they hit big. Then again, she is trained to do that. She&#8217;s a top-notch editor after all.) Anyway, shortly after she posted  a link about the anti-cheating ring on my Facebook page, Piers Morgan talked about it on CNN. TheCheeky.com sells the &#8220;strengthened Titanium&#8221; ring for $500. It has a &#8220;negative engraving&#8221; on the inside which, as another friend of mine put it, &#8220;brands&#8221; you with &#8220;I&#8217;m married&#8221; on your wedding finger. But I noticed a glaring glitch with TheCheeky.com&#8217;s ad copy. With Arnold, Tiger and two timing IMF guy in mind, we have created this wedding ring for people intent on cheating. Why would anyone &#8220;intent on cheating&#8221; buy such a ring for themselves? And I can&#8217;t see too many women giving this ring. Or, rather their husbands willingly accepting it. (I guess a woman could wear this too, but it&#8217;s currently more of a man&#8217;s band.) Put it this way, what kind of way is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Period Movies Coming Later in 2012: Wuthering Heights and Anna Karenina</title>
		<link>http://courtneymroch.com/SAHWexperiment/period-movies-coming-later-2012-wuthering-heights-anna-karenina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 03:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmroch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Karenina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While researching upcoming horror movies for the rest of 2012 for Haunt Jaunts, I came across a couple of period movies that also appealed to me: Wuthering Heights and Anna Karenina. (I&#8217;m really not partial to only one kind of movie. I like all types. Chick flicks, action and adventure, comedy, horror&#8230;as long as it has an entertaining plot and lets me escape for a couple of hours or so, I&#8217;m willing to give most anything a chance.) However, I do love period movies, and I certainly loved the books these two movies are based on. I&#8217;m curious to see how these adaptations of them are done. I have to be honest. Based on the trailer alone, this version of Wuthering Heights doesn&#8217;t look all that appealing to me. But Anna Karenina does. Plus, I love Keira Knightley. One of my favorite performances of hers is Doctor Zhivago (TV Miniseries). Do you like any of these books? Are you looking forward to either of these movies?]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the problem with this wedding fail video?</title>
		<link>http://courtneymroch.com/SAHWexperiment/whats-the-problem-with-this-wedding-fail-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmroch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Husbands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Costanza]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[weddings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night on the news they showed a clip from a wedding fail. While it was humorous that the dock the wedding party was standing on suddenly gave out, sending everybody plunging into the lake, that&#8217;s not what cracked me up most. After they aired the video, one of the anchor&#8217;s commented that she felt bad the bride and groom ended up being among the only ones to fall in up to their necks. (Some of the people on the ends lucked out and only got their legs wet.) That&#8217;s not what stood out most to me about this wedding fail video. Watch and see if you spot it. What did you notice about the groom? What did you notice about one of the bridesmaids? Anything? Did you notice the groom scrammed and didn&#8217;t help his bride? (At first. Eventually he waded back over to her.) But it was one of the bridesmaids who immediately leaped into action to help the  bride, who appears might&#8217;ve been popping out of her top after the tumble. The bridesmaid shielded the bride until she could pull herself back together. I&#8217;m wondering if that bridesmaid is a sister or best friend. All I know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The foreign concept of a sexless marriage</title>
		<link>http://courtneymroch.com/SAHWexperiment/the-foriegn-concept-of-a-sexless-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmroch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the Bedroom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing I will never understand, and which I hope to never experience, is a sexless marriage. I was blessed with a healthy sex drive. I&#8217;ve had friends who weren&#8217;t. They viewed my blessing as a curse. They thought sex was gross, dirty, nasty, wrong, a bother, and just one more thing on their long list of things to do to please everyone else. I&#8217;ve never seen sex any of those ways. Sex has always been important to me. Granted, growing up it was important for the wrong reasons. I wanted to be intimate with boys to get the love I didn&#8217;t know at home. Wayne helped me understand I could be loved, and was worthy of being loved, for more than what I was willing to do between the sheets. In fact, in our early years he&#8217;d often fight me off on purpose to get me to understand our relationship was more than just physical. At the time, I was livid. I of course thought he must not find me attractive and must not love me if he didn&#8217;t want me in that way. Thankfully, eventually a light bulb clicked. I understood what he was trying to help me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fill in the blank: I wish my husband&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://courtneymroch.com/SAHWexperiment/fill-in-the-blank-i-wish-my-husband/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmroch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Husbands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[criticism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend was a doozie for me. It was as exciting as it was frustrating. I play in a few tennis leagues and on a couple of tennis teams. My USTA 2.5 team ended up winning our District (Nashville) so we advanced to State. The State Championships was this past weekend in Memphis. I was shocked we were going. And nervous. Somehow I ended up as captain of this team. That means a lot of paperwork and coordinating and feeling overwhelmed. At least for me. I have OCD when it comes to double and triple checking that I&#8217;ve done things and have my ducks in a row. It&#8217;s why it takes me four times longer than most people to get even the simplest things done. Anyway, we had a skeleton crew. We needed a minimum of five to go. That&#8217;s what went. It meant playing all of our matches without a break. I ended up getting a rest my second match of the first day. Which turned out super. I ended up playing the singles line the whole time. (We played three lines: two doubles and the one singles.) Anyway, the girl I was supposed to play re-injured herself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You want me to quarantine my fur kids?</title>
		<link>http://courtneymroch.com/SAHWexperiment/you-want-me-to-quarantine-my-fur-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmroch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For Better Or Worse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Husbands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moments in Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fur kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relocating]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, Life has once again decided to throw me a curve ball. My darling husband has an offer for a new job &#8211;in Australia. He&#8217;s been hell bent on finding a way to live abroad. He hasn&#8217;t really even cared where. Last year, right around this same time in fact, he was trying to move us to Chile. That didn&#8217;t work out. They never really got back to him on the job. For which I was both grateful and sad. I wasn&#8217;t psyched about moving to a place where I couldn&#8217;t even speak the language, but it was also thrilling to think of living somewhere else. Kind of like this opportunity. I&#8217;ve always wanted to visit Australia. Crocodile Dundee started it. Then I read Mutant Message Down Under and saw A Town Like Alice. That cinched it. Australia seemed amazing. Definitely some place I&#8217;d like to see someday. But to live there? Well, sure. If I didn&#8217;t have one small problem. Actually, three. My fur kids. Australia is a long way to go. Two of the three are elderly. Mr. Meow is actually in terrible shape. He&#8217;s still not quite on track after the latest feeding tube incident. Worse, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you know you&#8217;re in love with your soul mate?</title>
		<link>http://courtneymroch.com/SAHWexperiment/how-do-you-know-youre-in-love-with-your-soul-mate/</link>
		<comments>http://courtneymroch.com/SAHWexperiment/how-do-you-know-youre-in-love-with-your-soul-mate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmroch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[To Love and Cherish]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you were little did you dream of love? Did you wonder about our soul mate? How you&#8217;d recognize him (or her)? How you&#8217;d know it was true love and you&#8217;d finally found it? When I was a little girl dreaming of my knight in shining armor, I did. I wondered what the feeling was people spoke of when I asked them about it. &#8220;You just know. It&#8217;s how you feel,&#8221; they&#8217;d say. That seemed so vague and random. How did it feel? Did it hurt? Tickle? Sting? Tingle? Where did you feel it? In your nose? Your shoulders? Your toes? And above all&#8230;when. When was I going to feel &#8220;it&#8221;? The magical moment when Cupid&#8217;s arrow hit my heart. Would I have to wait forever? What if it never happened? Well, maybe because I did wonder about it so much, the Universe decided to put me out of my misery. They delivered Wayne to me when I was just fifteen. I&#8217;d had other boyfriends already by then. I even thought I&#8217;d been in love a couple of times. Ha! Wayne made me realize what love felt like. No one told me about the connection you&#8217;d feel. The comfort level. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did you get premarital counseling?</title>
		<link>http://courtneymroch.com/SAHWexperiment/did-you-get-premarital-counseling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmroch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I wrote how the Reverend at the wedding we attended this past weekend spoke about the importance of wedding rings. Another thing he brought up was the importance of not entering into marriage without advisement. Wayne and I reluctantly, and begrudgingly, agreed to a very short premarital counseling session. Actually, the Reverend who wed us made an exception in our case. He usually liked to meet with couples several times before the big day came. In our case, we met once. For breakfast two mornings before we got married. We lived out of town and Wayne&#8217;s aunt had arranged the church for us. A Presbyterian one. It was important to everyone else we got married in a church. This was back when I was conflicted about how I felt about churches. Both Wayne&#8217;s family and mine were Catholic. Neither of us, however, went through Communion or Confirmation. My mom fell away from the church shortly before I was born. As I was growing up she bad-mouthed it and did everything in her power to stay away. She only went back to it later in her life. My dad returned to the church shortly after my mom and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does your wedding ring mean to you?</title>
		<link>http://courtneymroch.com/SAHWexperiment/what-does-your-wedding-ring-mean-to-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 21:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmroch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wedding rings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[His &#38; Hers 3 Pieces, 925 Sterling Silver &#38; Stainless Steel Engagement Wedding Ring Set Over Memorial Day Weekend we went to a wedding for one of Wayne&#8217;s coworkers. When it came time to do the rings, The Reverend said, &#8220;Before you exchange rings, let me talk about the significance of a wedding ring. What it really means to wear one and the responsibility that comes with it.&#8221; He went on to explain how a wedding ring is more than just a decoration for your hand, as many people readily mistake it for these days. A wedding ring is more than a statement that you&#8217;re someone&#8217;s husband or wife. A wedding ring is even more than just a symbol of your love and bond to one another. The circle represents a never ending cycle of connectedness. Then  he went on to say something that really resonated with me and why I was devastated when I lost the diamond in my ring. Just as there is only one wedding day, there is only one wedding ring representing the day you pledged to love your spouse and your spouse alone when you exchanged your vows. You pick the rings you do knowing [...]]]></description>
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