By Alisa Bowman
AKA
How to Build a Bridge
Years ago, a young kid who took art classes from my mom told me that his mother’s favorite expression was, “Build a bridge and get over it.”
At the time I was in my early 20s. I had no idea what that expression meant. Then lots of life happened during the next 20 years. Now I understand it completely, especially when it comes to human relationships and particularly when it comes to marriage.
Many times the idea of fairness is like a huge ravine that separates you from a happy marriage (and happiness in general). There you are on one side of the ravine. There’s your ideal marriage on the other. In between is fairness, and it has got jagged rocks and lots of white water that is freezing cold and filled with piranha. (I’m pretty sure piranha are... More...
