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Mike & Liza's Marriage Ref: Juice Fast Fight

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Dear Mike & Liza, My hus­band recently watched a doc­u­men­tary and now wants to go on a 60 day juice fast.  Which means…of course…he wants me to go on a 60 day juice fast too. We have 3 kids under the age of 16 and I still have to make pan­cakes and pack lunches and cook dinner […]

 

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Mike & Liza's Marriage Ref: Christmas Tradition Trouble

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Dear Mike & Liza, My new hus­band has 2 boys from a pre­vi­ous mar­riage, aged 9 and 12.  I have no chil­dren.  This is our first Christ­mas together with the boys.  I hoped to incor­po­rate some of my fam­ily tra­di­tions into our Christ­mas this year, like open­ing one gift on Christ­mas Eve, a spe­cial Christ­mas breakfast […]

 

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Mike & Liza's Marriage Ref: Whose Parents Are Worth More

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Dear Mike & Liza, My hus­band has made a lovely, thought­ful, per­sonal and quite frankly expen­sive gift for his par­ents this Christ­mas.  When I told him I plan to spend the same amount of money on my par­ents he said he didn’t see why that was nec­es­sary.  He says the par­ents will never com­pare gifts and […]

 

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Mike & Liza's Marriage Ref: Hubs Hates Her Hobbit Habit

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Dear Mike & Liza, My favorite book of all time is the Hob­bit. I have read it every year since I was ten years old… some­times twice a year. (I’d tell you how many times, but then you could do the math and fig­ure out how old I really am.) I have sev­eral collector’s edi­tions of […]

 

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Mike & Liza's Marriage Ref: Cruise Scrooge

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Dear Mike & Liza, My hus­band and I bought a cruise for our fam­ily to enjoy in Feb­ru­ary. We planned to present it to our teenage chil­dren for Christ­mas. I want to get my chil­dren lots of lit­tle cruise related gifts — new swim­suits, flip flops, sun­glasses, etc so they will have presents to open […]

 

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Mike & Liza's Marriage Ref: Crafts Or Cash

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Dear Mike & Liza I’ve been work­ing on craft projects to give as Christ­mas gifts.  They are gifts for neigh­bors, teach­ers and co-workers. My hus­band says he is embar­rassed by these presents and would rather give the cash equiv­a­lent.  I say small gifts, made by hand and given with love are the best.  Would you rather […]

 

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Mike & Liza's Marriage Ref: She Has Status Update Envy

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Dear Mike & Liza, I used to think my hus­band and I were “nor­mal.”  I thought we had a pretty full and fun life.  I see my friends on Face­book are out to din­ner.  They’re at par­ties.  It looks like con­stant fun fun fun.  My hus­band says he’s not going to get off the couch just […]

 

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Mike & Liza's Marriage Ref: Counting Coins

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Dear Mike & Liza, My hus­band pays with change.  We went to a fast food place the other day and our total was $8.16.  He paid the whole thing with change.  He counted it out and put it on the counter.  I told him I would be more than will­ing to take all the change to […]

 

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Mike & Liza's Marriage Ref: Forced To Have Fun

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Dear Mike & Liza, My hus­band keeps push­ing me to have a “Girls Night Out.” This doesn’t sound appeal­ing to me at all. I think he read that doing this will make me hap­pier and more ful­filled. I’ve tried talk­ing to him about this, but he just can’t seem to let the idea go. Now […]

 

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Mike & Liza's Marriage Ref: Put Out By The Pooch

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Mike & Liza, We got a puppy about a year ago.  When it was lit­tle and cry­ing all night, my hus­band thought it would help if it slept in the bed with us. Now, it’s not a cute lit­tle puppy any­more and we have a 50 lb mutt right in between us with its head on […]