Michael and I have been married for a whopping 3.5 years and although that isn’t a ton of time to rack up the marriage knowledge, I have learned a few lessons over the past few years. Lessons about partnership, partnership and parenting, compromise and love. But, the biggest lesson I’ve learned, so far, is this, that a happy marriage comes down to one thing…vegan potato salad! Yep, the key to a happy marriage is vegan potato salad. Or maybe it’s what the vegan potato salad represents. Life isn’t always easy and marriage can sometimes bear the brunt of the chaos. Sometimes we get on each other’s nerves, sometimes we watch TV from opposite ends of the couch when we could be cuddled up next to one another having meaningful conversations. Sometimes we get distracted by bills and chores and work and runny noses. We get too wrapped up in our to-dos and forget to show each other how much we appreciate one another. That’s where vegan potato salad comes in. It represents what I’ve decided to coin as “little bits of every day appreciation.” Those things you don’t really have to do, that are pretty small in the grand scheme of effort, but that […]
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