Category Archives: Love/Romance
20th Anniversary Playlist
Posted by Jonathan Sherman in :: 52 Love Songs Project,Love/Romance | February 14, 2012
Every anniversary Kara gets a new playlist on (back in the day, kiddies, we called them “mix tapes”) of songs I collect throughout the year that represent how I feel about my baby. I generally try to pick songs based on real committed love and not just cheesy love songs. I load these on CDs and we listen to them throughout our day date on our anniversary as we drive around and then she keeps them in her car to listen to throughout the year as she wants.
Here’s the playlist you can listen to in the background as you do your work today. I would love to hear your recommendations, too. Thanks.
Be sure to follow our 20th Anniversary Year-Long Celebration here.
GrooveShark didn’t have the following songs that are on Kara’s playlist that I highly recommend:
- Lovesong, Adele (the one above is a cover of her cover of The Cure’s original song)
- Things We Said Today, The Beatles
- Gold to Me, Ben Harper
- Me & You, Michael Reno Harrell
Our 20th Anniversary Year-Long Celebration
Posted by Jonathan Sherman in >> Marriage Transformation,Love/Romance | February 13, 2012
You know how business’ celebrate their 10th, 20th, etc anniversary of being in business all year long? Well, marriage and family is more important than any business so Kara and I decided today that we’re going to make our 20th Anniversary a Year-Long Celebration instead of just on our anniversary date itself and stretch it out throughout 2012 with various big and small celebrations, activities and parties. Woo hoo!
January | February | March | April | May | June January 19th: My wife Kara’s blog post “20 Years” — A touching and funny tribute of our life together Yes, it made me cry. Best gift I’ve ever received! Wow! I’m tearing up, folks, sap that I am. What a touching (and funny) review and tribute of our life together. Thanks, baby! BEST anniversary gift I’ve EVER received. January 30th: Decision to make this a full year-long anniversary celebration. February 12th February 14th February 18th Moab, UT hiking trip Marriage Enrichment Weekend Retreat Park City overnight date WaveRunner Date Horseback riding on the trails of Sundance Marriage Getaway, Aspen Grove, UT. I highly recommend these Marriage and Weekend Getaways. They are affordable, insightful and fun. Alaskan Cruise Las Vegas overnighter Concert in WendoverWhat are your favorite anniversary ideas, stories and memories? Please share them with us in the comments below!
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February
KSL Channel 5 live interview of our 20th Anniversary Year Long Celebration. Woo hoo!
Dinner at Franck’s. French cuisine. Our third anniversary there. Kara’s a real foodie, a culinary genius and appreciates fine food like no one I know. She knows what all the fancy words on a menu means that no one else understands. It’s fun to listen to her describe how certain foods are made and the history of certain methods or techniques.
March
March 30, 2012: Kara and I went to the “Keeping the Love Alive” Date Night Seminar.
By Michelle Weiner-Davis, best-selling author of Divorce-Busting, hosted by StrongerMarriage.org
Michelle is one of the key leaders in my field and has greatly influenced the Solution-Focused work I do with my clients. It was great to learn from her again. Kara and I both enjoyed her presentation. And after I introduced Kara to my new fav find: Rusted Sun Pizzeria (num!) with the most amazing calzones and spumoni for dessert.April
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What are your favorite anniversary ideas, stories and memories? Please share them with us in the comments below!
2 Decades 240 Months 1,044 Weeks 7,305 Days 175,316 Hours 10,518,975 Minutes 631,138,519 Seconds And counting… And to think some fool said to me that my wife and I were “lucky” to have such a great marriage. Yeah, right. That’s what it is: “luck.” Luck my eye. Our great marriage is time put in, work done, study done, lessons learned, bad habits undone and good habits hard-won. Don’t you dare cheapen my kick-ass marriage by calling what we have CREATED “lucky.” Might as well call Warren Buffet’s wealth luck or Michael Jordan’s skill luck. But, if you call working your butts off to a commitment and never giving up “luck” then I wish you all the best luck in the world! Any of my clients who have done The GREAT Relationship Work can also well attest that their accomplishments had nothing to do with luck, but with choice, commitment, and LOTS of hard work. Their turn-arounds and transformations didn’t “just happen” and didn’t come cheap. Their relationships are GREAT because they were EARNED the hard way, the old way, the only way—doing the right work the right way and refusing to cut corners. Excellence only.20 Years is…
“Lucky” My Eye
Past Anniversaries
GR Masters: Kristian and Rachel Anderson
Posted by Jonathan Sherman in >> Marriage Transformation,:: The Great Relationship Masters Project,Love/Romance | February 1, 2012
Not too shabby this… Kristian Anderson made this birthday video for his wife Rachel before he died of cancer. It went viral as did their story. I’ll let the vids tell their story better than I can…
Train Serenades Kristian and Rachel with “Marry Me” & Oprah Covers Medical Costs
Their Wedding Video
Kristian’s Funeral
I tip my hat to this wonderful couple who were in their short time in this life together truly GREAT Relationship Masters. Their reunion in the next life will be all the sweeter for both the joy and the suffering they experienced in this life. Peace and blessing to them.
“Create Your GREAT Relationship Brand” Workshop
Posted by Jonathan Sherman in Love/Romance,Marriage Tips,Seminars and Workshops,The GREAT Relationship | September 23, 2010“Create Your GREAT Relationship Brand” workshop/fireside this weekend. Hope to see ya there! http://ping.fm/qN59A
We humans must be trained to develop relationship mastery. While we are the masters of our dogs, they are the masters of actually practicing the highest virtues we only say we hold dear.
Ben Stein, in his classic deadpan humor, nails it:
“No matter what the problem in life dogs are the answer… Did you lose your job? Horrible. But that just means you have more time to spend at home with your dog… Your dog doesn’t need a master with a big job. He needs a friend… Take the first step to recovery right now: Get a dog.”
“When I Said I Do” Clint Black & Lisa Hartman-Black
Posted by Jonathan Sherman in Love/Romance,Marriage Tips | February 29, 2008Few “romantic” songs have anything to do about real, lasting, committed love. This song epitomizes what The Marriage Academy and “greatness in relationships” is all about. Enjoy.
Peace,
Jonathan