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Why Bother Relating With the In-Laws?
By Terese Luikens | | Family
Why Bother Relating With the In-Laws? The first time I met Les and Berniece, my future in-laws, Luke, whom I’d eventually marry, hadn’t yet proposed to me. Like so many others of that era, the 1970s, we simply cohabitated. We’d driven my Volkswagen bug from Idaho to Colorado, camping along the way and bathed in…
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Why Bother With Womanhood
By Terese Luikens | | Family
Why Bother with Womanhood? For the longest time I wanted to be just like my older brother, Bruce. From my perspective, it looked like boys had more fun and freedom than girls. They whooped, hollered, and wrestled without a…
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Why bother getting along?
By Terese Luikens | | Family
Why bother getting along? After a girlhood spat with one of my sisters, my mother once told me, “If you can’t learn to get along with your own brothers and sisters, you’ll never get along with anybody else.” But it made more sense to my pubescent mind that the offender apologize rather than…
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By Terese Luikens | | Relationships
Why bother to stay married? August 2, 2020, my husband and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary. We rafted down the Payette River, climbed Mt. Borah and camped under the canopy of the Dark Sky Reserve in Central Idaho. For ten days we soaked in the sunshine and marveled at the starlight. When we married…
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