On relationships and money

As much as I love date night, pretty much everything in I Don’t Believe in Date Night at The Conversation describes how Rockford and I try to do things. Except that he really does hate to go to bed angry, so we try not to do that.

I’ve loved this man since we were kids. Ours is a relationship that our friends hold up as an example of happiness, equality, love, friendship… and most of the time, I understand why. And I can tell you, it’s not because of date nights. It’s because of regular nights. … It can be Monday, it can be meatloaf, we can be talking about the mortgage. But it’s always meaningful. And more importantly, it’s routine. We do it all the time.
via Laura at Hollywood Housewife

Jenn Mattern, just writing the lights out in How to Go to the Bank.

But Bank Guy is already making a beeline for his overstuffed chair. You are messy, too messy and middle-aged to remember. You have become that woman, somehow, in the span of a few short years. Your daughters are more vibrant and beautiful by the day, while you are grow heavier with doubt and fear and anxiety and all of the things you dare not say.