THIS WEEK'S DEAR JOHN LETTER!
Dear John,
My wife and I lost our oldest son in a car accident two years ago. He would have been a senior in high school this year. We've gone through the grief of this horrible situation in such different ways. I've gone out of my way to do more things with our other children. I'm more involved and have devoted myself fully to being as close to them as possible. My wife has become very distant. Just as she gets better, something will pop up that pulls her back under. His birthday, Christmas, Back To School and worst of all the anniversary of his death. These things are spaced out about every few months, so just as she comes up for air from the last tidal wave, another one hits. I've tried to be there for her, but sometimes it feels like she wants to pull me under with her. I'm completely lost on this. We've tried counseling, but it's not helping. I'd like to find a way to be there for her and be there for our other children, but at this point I'm the only one there for our daughter and son at most times. My wife's mother is concerned and so am I. I know this is not the kind of fun “Dear John Letter” you'd like, but I could use some help on this. I've tried everything I can think of, so I'm hoping that someone else who has been through this may reply on your Facebook page. I would be very grateful. I'm afraid that this may eventually lead to the end of our marriage, but I'm even more concerned that it may lead to my wife taking her own life.
Signed – HusbandNeedsHelp
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National Professional House Cleaners Day
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National
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Recent
video footage from Wales shows a bride who ended up brawling in a
field on her wedding day with shocked onlookers watching the carnage.
The fight appears to have broken out after the ceremony and footage
shows the new bride rolling around on the grass with another person.
The bride is still dressed in her white gown and veil. On the ground
nearby, another guest appears to be passed out, with reports saying
she was “drunk and asleep.” Shocked guests watched the chaos with
one shouting “call the police.” The clip went viral after being
uploaded to Reddit with a post revealing it happened in Swansea. It
was captioned “Yes, that's the bride brawling in the meadow.”
South Wales Police were called to reports of the disturbance and
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“Nomadland” won the Golden Lion Award at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Just to be clear, the Golden Lion Award is not affiliated with Golden Lion Grocery Stores. (https://bit.ly/32tmktv)
New York Times movie critic Ben Brantley is stepping down. (https://bit.ly/2RqBFEF)
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Travelers left behind nearly a million dollars at U.S. airport security checkpoints last year. A Transportation Security Administration report said travelers lost $926,000 at 75 airports in the year that ended in September. Much of the lost money came from people emptying their pockets for security scans. The paper says the largest sums were lost at airports in New York, San Francisco, Miami, Las Vegas and Dallas.
Older adults who want to take a crack at the newspaper crossword or try a new recipe may want to do it first thing in the morning. A small study (by Canadian researchers) found that adults between the ages of 60 and 82 were less distracted and better able to perform cognitive tasks between the hours of 8:30 and 10:30 AM than in the afternoon, when their brains started “idling”.
Although you’d probably get a bigger kick out of attending a concert or spending a week in Italy, people still mostly opt for items over experiences — because the value of items is more easily quantifiable. Researchers surveyed people before and after they made purchases. Beforehand, they rated life experiences as making them happier and as a better use of money than buying objects. But study subjects still tended to choose to buy objects over experiences. Then, despite picking items, most said they still believed the experiences would have been a better choice.
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CHINA
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one-year-old daughter hostage while her husband was ordered to a bank
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Port St. Lucie man was arrested for giving his girlfriend a “violent
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