Can a $700 calendar program save your marriage?
Boy, do I get this. Without a joint calendar, even just the two of us would be DOA—let alone a family with kids. For a price, the digital display happily replaces that smeary mess on the fridge.
We pushed our little birdies out of the nest (yahoo!!) and now live in a 55+ community1 in an exurb where the basics of life are happily all less than 5 miles away. After a few years here, we2 made the previously-unthinkable decision to go to one car. I hung on by my fingernails to that one for several years until it finally just made no sense to have two cars sitting in the garage. When I work, it’s virtually or several flights away; finally it just made no sense to store two cars instead of one.
But we could never do it without calendar coordination. With only two of us sorta-retireds, it’s pretty easy. Add in the thousand activities of kids and it would never work using our Outlook/Google calendars.
So when I saw this digitally-coordinated calendar for the family, it made sense, although the price is likely not for everyone. Read the whole article here (gifted article—you’re welcome): “Can a $700 Calendar Save Your Marriage? Your spouse can’t read your mind. But these products promise to “externalize the primary care giver’s mind.”
And if there’s anything that characterizes the “primary caregiver’s brain,” it’s her sex.
You know who you are!
Average age = 72.
That would be “I.” I hung onto have two cars (= autonomy) for years after it was obvious we just didn’t need them both.