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Julie Fitzpatrick – An Exit Ramp Appears

December 13, 2024

Hello there TeamConfessioners, I am Mags’ friend Julie. For years, I’ve gotten a kick out of Mags’ podcast because I so often relate to her stories and I get [...]

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A Reason To Trust The World – A Lesson From Life and My Husband

November 8, 2024

Okay, this is always a little annoying, but Team, I think there’s yet another thing that my husband has been getting right that I’ve been getting wrong. While listening [...]

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Marital Differences – Get It Done vs. Get It Done Just Right

October 4, 2024

This weekend G-Man and I will be celebrating our 23rd wedding anniversary. Anniversaries feel like the perfect time to reflect on the differences between my husband and me. This [...]

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Rite of Empathy – A Shortcut to Understanding Someone Else’s Pain

May 3, 2024

G Man and I recently made a decision to redistribute household responsibilities to allow me more uninterrupted work time. As a result, my husband now has to interrupt his [...]

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Genuine Connection: Shifting from Gifts to Presence

February 9, 2024

The other day, my friend was telling me a story about when she was a very new stay-at-home mother. She explained that when her husband returned home from work, [...]

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The Healing Power of Reparation – Navigating Love and Forgiveness

February 2, 2024

Marriage: Practicing Compassion & Acceptance

TeamConfessioners, can you believe it’s already February? As many of our teammates know, in February we often take time to focus on love. This week, I’d like to talk [...]

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Back to School Does Nothing for a Marriage – Creating Family Homeostasis

September 15, 2023

I’m recording a little later than I had anticipated, but it just took me a bit longer to pull my act together this year…or it took me the same [...]

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Do You Really Know How to Take Care of Others? Creating a Mission Statement for Everything

January 20, 2023

Do you really know how to take care of someone? I’m only asking because I actually didn’t. I thought I did. My version of caring for someone was to [...]

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Editing the Family Manual – Cut and Pasted from Generation to Generation

April 22, 2022

The year was 1995. I was walking behind a father and his daughter in the garment district in New York City. I watched as the father handed his child [...]

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Where Are You Picking Up the Idea That Something’s Wrong with You?

March 18, 2022

Someone asked me this week, “Where are you picking up ideas that something’s wrong with you?” Here’s an example from our family that I think perfectly illustrates how I [...]

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