Life can, at times, seem like a high-wire act.  Each of us is up there doing our own thing when wham, something happens that knocks us off balance:  we are passed over for a promotion, our child is diagnosed with leukemia, the basement floods, our spouse is in an automobile accident.

Life happens.

In the inevitable fall that follows, in the best of worlds, we land upon a web of connection.  Connection with friends and family, but most importantly with our spouse.  It is what catches and cushions us in those unavoidable falls. (Read more…)