I met my husband December 2006. We became best friends and we began dating in August 17, 2007. We moved in together July 6, 2010. We got engaged December 5, 2010. I bought the domain 20andEngaged.com 2 days later. My first post on the blog was January 4, 2011. We got married 2 years ago [...]
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2012 Recap
We have arrived at the final day of 2012. This has been quite the year for everyone as far as I know. A lot has happened to/for me/us. January The Suze Orman fiasco started the year off with a bang. Her Approved Card was denied by personal finance bloggers everywhere. We gave our 30 day [...]
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Up
As you may or may not have noticed, I’ve been sort of MIA, checking in when I thought I was on the verge of the dreaded D word. So I took a bit of pressure off myself to really focus on what was going on and what could (or couldn’t be fixed). “I wanna read [...]
How Focusing On Myself May Make or Break My Marriage
November has been one of the most tumultuous months I’ve encountered in a while. Really, the past 2 months have been. It’s been constant back and forth and bickering and disagreeing, and not talking, and it’s been so ridiculously stressful. I’ve been pretty miserable to say the least. It’s just been really hard trying to get [...]
Where Do We Go From Here?
I’m finishing up my third week at my new job and I absolutely love it. I’m enjoying the work. I like the people. I cherish the fact that I’m now getting paid weekly (yesterday was payday). I’m able to pay my bills and not freak out like I used to. But in the beginning of this [...]
Back to the Future: Letter From My Former Self
When I got home today, I saw I received a letter from my AP English Literature teacher from 12th grade. I was excited to open it to see what he had to say. When I opened the letter, I was a bit surprised to see it wasn’t a letter from him at all. It was [...]
Loving to Your Maximum
Saturday night, I went out with hubby to celebrate his best friend’s graduation. It was a cultural affair (his best friend is Ethiopian) and went on for hours, but we really enjoyed ourselves. Even though I spent my two nights at his house earlier in the week, I told my mom I was staying another [...]
Marriage Growing Pains
I took a brief hiatus away from the blog for the past 2 weeks. I was in a place where I felt any updates on my marriage and life in general were too negative and were taking the blog in a direction I didn’t like. Originally, I started this blog to document the transition from [...]
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