I feel like my marriage is becoming one of my life’s big accomplishments, that it’s something to celebrate, and that’s not how people around me typically talk about ho-hum marriages that are approaching middle age.

When you skip asking yourself what the purpose of your birthday party is in this specific year, for where you are at this present moment in your life, for example, you forsake an opportunity for your gathering to be a source of growth, support, guidance, and inspiration tailored to the time in which you and others find yourselves. You squander a ch

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