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xoxo
QJen
ANOTHER special thank you to Beth!! Beth has been the most active reader on the blog. 🙂
Check out Beth’s sites..
http://betulaworldpress.com
https://bethsfloraphotography.wordpress.com/
I love the photographs that Beth has! Do you know she has a whole section on the rain? What?! Seriously Seattle peeps I know you are flocking there especially since we have had such little rain lately!!
Tola has been the TOP commenter this week!! I love how you talk about Love and the prayer of Jabez! #EnlargeOurTerritory
Check out Tola’s site — https://tolawrites.wordpress.com
TOP referer of the week!
Thank you Stephanie for referring me! I love how you are leading a gluten-free lifestyle & how you talk about managing a lifestyle for people with a chronic illness.
WOW- I’ve spent the past several days celebrating my birthday! I used to sulk on my birthday and not appreciate the universe giving me another year on this wonderful planet but now I’m learning to feel the joy. Have you ever felt guilty about celebrating yourself or having fun? I usually think wow I should really be working right now. Someone recently said to me “Jen just feel the joy instead of rejecting it”. Those few words were super profound for me. Why do we feel guilt or think we don’t deserve to enjoy the moment? This is a struggle for many people so you are not alone. If you are one of the super fabulous people who don’t feel guilty or don’t think they should be working then you have gotten to a place where a lot of people haven’t. So Kudos to you!! When I begin to feel guilt or thinking about how I should be working then I just say to myself “feel the joy” and it snaps me back.
What did I do for my birthday? I went to a Macklemore concert!!! I’m a bit obsessed with him. I love he speaks his mind and celebrates equality. It was actually Amazon’s 20th birthday & their concert but I pretended they were celebrating me– I mean they were right they kept saying “happy birthday”. 🙂
I’ve been meeting some super fabulous people lately. For 4 months I’ve been focused on making friends & now people are flocking to me to be their friend. Pretty cool right? IMHO I’m the most amazing friend to people so why not flock to me?
Okay so this post is a bit of me patting myself on the back. haha. But I’m feeling the joy!
Dear Jen, My wife and I have been clashing on certain aspects of our life. One aspect is she is never appreciative of the flowers I buy her. When I come home after a long day of work and put flowers on the table she will turn to me and say why did you buy those flowers; they will be dead in a few days. I’ll bring her chocolates and she will just set them aside. She will then nag me about how my clothes are still in the laundry basket or I need to still go through the mail. We then get into an argument because I just bought her home chocolates or flowers and she doesn’t even acknowledge it. I think she is being ungrateful but I don’t want this to be a wedge in our relationship. Any advice would be helpful. Thank you for the support and I think you blog is inspiring, funny and real. Chase
Hey Chase-
Thanks for the compliments that is what I’m striving for- as well as helping people around the world with relationships. I know exactly what is going on here. This will be life changing for you. 🙂 You guys have different love languages!!!
~~~wait seriously that’s it??? i know what you are thinking!!!~~~
Maybe I need to write a blog about love languages but you are Gifts and your wife is acts of service!!! Many people go through life with their “love cup” unfilled because they don’t know the other persons love language. The way she feels loved and appreciated is through you doing “acts of service” for her. Acts of service can be cleaning, cooking, laundry whatever you do for her. I’m acts of service and the best thing my hubby could do for me is to help me with certain things because I lack energy.
You are “receiving gifts”- for your love language and what this means is you love to receive and give gifts. Now the gifts don’t have to be huge- it could be simple things but it just will fill your love cup up. You definitely need to discuss the love languages with your wife. You need to learn how to speak her love language of acts of service & vice versa. You don’t want to go your whole life & leave your wife’s love cup unfilled. 🙂
here is the website for everyone to take the quiz….to find out what YOUR love language is!
Comment in the comments of what yours is!!
xox
QJen
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Special thank you to Beth & Paul for being my followers of the week!!!
Pauls site is- http://photopaulm.com
Paul has spectacular photography on his site! I am especially fond of his night photography!!
Beth- your site isn’t showing up for me but if you put it in the comments I’ll add it
xoxo
appreciate the support!!
Dear Jen, I’m dating two guys and only one knows that I’m dating the other. I’m not a liar by any means but I have had to not exactly tell the other one I’m dating anyone else. We aren’t exclusive so I didn’t feel like it was a big deal by not saying anything. I’m beginning to feel guilty for not saying anything. I know I need to make a decision on who to pick. I know I can’t continue anymore to date both. I am extremely conflicted on what to even do. Can you please give me words of wisdom or advice? Thank you! Stephanie
Hi Stephanie! Thanks for writing for advice- this is super complicated now let’s figure this out. You need to ask yourself a few questions.
The guy that doesn’t know you are dating anyone else- don’t you think you wouldn’t lie to him if he was “the one”?
The guy that does know you are dating someone else don’t you think you respect him more since you had the respect to tell him?
Respect is huge in a relationship & needed.
Give yourself a deadline to figure this out by and be up front with the guy who already knows. The guy that doesn’t know is most likely going to be irate if he finds out now. You are going to have to figure out if you now want to be honest with him but just know it won’t go well. What guy wants to be second place or share with another man? Just human nature there to be upset. I just have this feeling that the guy you respect the most and you are upfront with will most likely be your front-runner. 🙂
xoxo
QJen
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Hi Jen, Listen my wife is NOT domesticated whatsoever. I think the only issues we have in our marriage is she doesn’t like to cook or clean. Any suggestions on getting her to do those things? I need to live in a clean home and have dinners on the table a few times a week. appreciate it, Rob
Hey Rob-
If it makes you feel any better I’m not domesticated at all either. Honestly why don’t you hire a college girl to come in and clean twice a week. It is cheaper than paying for a professional housecleaner. I once hired a college girl to do all the chores and cooking for me. She was like my wife… lol… I had dinner on the table for my hubby and the house was cleaned. She only came over 2 times a week for 2-3 hours… it was well worth the $10 an hour. Don’t you think?
Thanks!
Jen
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Hi Jen, Going into my relationship that I’m in I always knew that my boyfriend was allergic to cats but maybe I was in denial. Things are getting serious and I’m having feeling that it is either going to be the cats that are going to need to go or I’m going to have to break things off with my boyfriend. He doesn’t come to my apartment because he says he will sneeze and it would be a disaster. I may have gotten into a situation that I can’t get out of. thanks, tiff
Hey Tiff-
Love is rare! Girl it is hard to find a boyfriend yet alone love!! You know I’m a HUGE cat fan but that pales in comparison to the true love you can experience. If he isn’t “the one” & you know that –then break it off and find someone who isn’t allergic. There are a billion people out there but of course love is rare!!!
LET me explain–I’m definitely contradicting myself here. I’ll put it to you this way- if he is the one then you know what you have to do about your kitties. Find out what about cats he is allergic to and either find a new cat that is hypoallergenic or give your kitties to your BFF or family member. If he isn’t the one then don’t waste your time & make having a man who isn’t allergic to cat a priority on your list for finding a man. You really don’t want your future hubs to be on meds for the rest of his life right?
Xoxo
Jen
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Jen, I have been dating a boyfriend for about four months and he constantly is worrying about what I’m doing on my cell phone. I’m not a teenager, I am 30. I think to myself this is a red flag right? Why in the world would he care? I also caught him holding my phone once and of course he was probably looking through it. What are your thoughts? Thanks, your fan
Hi Your Fan! And super flattered by that. Speaking of “Fans” since living in seattle I’ve had to buy 3 fans bc it randomly got super hot!!! Now it is 70 degrees and I’m thinking why did I just buy those. Okay back to your question- girl you have been dating him a whole 4 months…. I think you know what to do. If he is worried about what you are doing on your cell and possibly looking through it then I think he has security issues and definitely trust. I think you need to communicate with him and let him know that cell phone snooping is off limits. This is your call on this one- but 4 months is a super short period of time in our life but when you are in it – it definitely feels MUCH longer.
xoxo
Jen
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I love how in one neighborhood in Seattle the crosswalks are rainbow!!! I love being able to be in a Seattle that is extremely open. It doesn’t seem like people judge one another as much as on the east coast. It is kinda like whatever goes— goes!!
Last week Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood decided to have rainbow crosswalks to support their primarily gay neighborhood. It was trending on Facebook and twitter! How awesome right? There has been hate crimes in Capitol Hill lately & what a great step by community leaders to take a step & support the gay community. When you hear this doesn’t it just make you feel like humanity is headed in the right direction?
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