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Nagging in Marriage Is More Common Than Adultery But Can Also Lead to Divorce Ken Mac Dougall bit into the sandwich his wife had packed him for lunch and noticed something odd—a Post-it note tucked between the ham and the cheese. He pulled it out of his mouth, smoothed the crinkles and read what his wife had written: "Be in aisle 10 of Home Depot tonight at 6 p.m." Mr. Mac Dougall was renovating the couple's Oak Ridge, N.J., kitchen, and his wife had been urging him to pick out the floor tiles. He felt he had plenty of time to do this task. "I thought the note was an ingenious and hysterical way to get his attention," says his wife, Janet Pfeiffer (whose occupation, interestingly enough, is a motivational speaker), recalling the incident which occurred several years ago. Nagging—the interaction in which one person repeatedly makes a request, the other person repeatedly ignores it and both become increasingly annoyed—is an issue every couple will grapple with at some point.

a spark of understanding My first encounter with Unitarianism.By Bernadette Siegel Fall 2009 In late December 1945, my husband Arthur and I were living in San Francisco where he was a doctor stationed with the Coast Guard. We had been married the previous August. But the Coast Guard needed a doctor on weather tender, and Arthur was scheduled to ship out on December 31. Her name was Mariel Hoffman, and I immediately liked her for her warmth, intelligence, and naturalness. I don’t remember the name of the film, but I do remember the newsreel. I was quite taken aback and wondered what in the world could have affected her so much. In all my twenty-two years, no one had ever said anything remotely like that to me. Twelve years later I joined a Unitarian church. Bernadette Siegel read this story to the congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno, California, on November 18, 2008, when she lit a candle in honor of her eighty-fifth birthday.

Pope Francis Calls Christian Fundamentalism As 'Not Healthy' Prepare to hear more howling from conservative critics of the Holy Father. Pope Francis has called out Christian fundamentalism for being ‘not healthy.’ Photo of Pope Francis from Agencia Brasil, a public news agency, via Wikimedia Commons. Pope Francis attacked Christian fundamentalism as “not healthy.” On Friday, La Civiltà Cattolica published remarks that Pope Francis made in November during a meeting with the leaders of men’s religious orders. “It is not a good strategy to be at the center of a sphere,” the Pope stated. Ah, thinking. Pope Francis referred to a letter written by Father Pedro Arrupe in which he spoke of poverty and how “some time of real contact with the poor is necessary.” “This is really very important to me: the need to become acquainted with reality by experience, to spend time walking on the periphery in order really to become acquainted with the reality and life – experiences of people,” Pope Francis continued. Fundamentalism is dangerous.