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Marriage at Home More than a Place to Rest Your Head
From the editors
Caryn D. Rivadeneira
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When my husband and I began our search for a new home two years ago, we started with a bare bones list of things we thought we were looking for: a "cute" house with a couple bedrooms, a couple bathrooms, a separate dining room, and a nice backyard for the dogs we knew we'd gather. So we sifted through listings with these items in mind. As we actually began to see some of the houses on the market, however, our list expanded rapidly. Not only did we want a backyard, we wanted it fenced in. Not only did we need two bathrooms, but if the bedrooms were upstairs, one bathroom had to be up there as well. But we found that even if a house had all these qualities, one more thing had to be in place: we were looking for a feeling.
Everyone I had talked to about buying a home said that when we found the right one, we'd just know. To the less sentimental types, this may sound like too much "hocus-pocus," but it made perfect sense to me. I knew that our home would be more than just a place to put our stuff and rest our heads. It would be a place where we would live out our lives—and grow our marriage.
We tend to think of marriage only in terms of who and when and what and how and why. We rarely think of it terms of where, at least in a concrete sense. But every couple's home—be it a house, an apartment, a lean-to, or a palace—plays a crucial role in their marriage. For in those rooms, decisions are made, fights are fought, laughs are enjoyed, and memories are created.
With this issue, MARRIAGE PARTNERSHIP celebrates the role that a home plays in a couple's relationship. Cindy Crosby shows us the power of beauty in a couple's home in her interview with interior designer Terry Willits on page 32. In "Are You Ready. … for Retirement?" (page 78), financial expert Scott Kays explains how buying a home contributes to your retirement planning. And, as always, in our advice columns, MP's stellar relationship experts—Les and Leslie Parrott, Louis and Melissa McBurney, and Gary and Carrie Oliver—answer readers' questions on how to improve their marriages and make their homes more enriching places to live.
Our home has been just this for us. After six weeks of looking, we just knew we had found the house for us. It was everything we had hoped and prayed for. And after two years in it, though nearly everything in it has changed (our list just kept growing), the feeling's still there.
Caryn D. Rivadeneira
Managing editor
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