November 2008
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Ready, set, panic!
I got married on the 12th of September and knew it’d be a while before I got to rejoin my husband in the UK. And even though we’ve done it before and I knew how miserable it’d be, I wasn’t really prepared for HOW miserable. Look, it sucks. Everyone keeps asking you what married life is like and you’re sitting there thinking that if you don’t see your spouse...
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Help End the Widow's Penalty
I’m posting this everywhere I know, but especially here, when I know so many readers of mine are immigrant spouses who could potentially find themselves in this precarious legal position one day. (Though, I truly hope not.)
There is a rule in the US commonly known as The Widow’s Penalty. Essentially, what happens is that people who are legal immigrants via marriage are being...
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Justify My Love
The thing to understand about my husband and I is that we literally met face to face for the first time only about one year ago. (Actually, one year ago yesterday, exactly.) That’s fast for anyone, and because we live on different continents, we’re still really not in the habit of being an item around anyone but ourselves. There’s a reason we chose to get married with only the...
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Stephen Fry has criticised "sneering"... →
haha… I think I love you, Stephen Fry.
