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These are passion fruit flowers. They generally bloom for a day, and I haven’t seen them this close to one another before. It feels like an amazing visual representation of passion. As with gardens, you need to nurture, water, weed, and enjoy your relationship. You have to make time for your marriage. It doesn’t grow […]

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About this blog: I am a LMFT specializing in couples counseling and grief and have lived in Silicon Valley since 1969. I'm the president of Connect2 Marriage Counseling. I worked in high-tech at Apple,...