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Love It Burns

March 11, 2015 by Momstart Leave a Comment

Guest Post: Love, it burns

Husband and wife need to talk. Late in the evening when the children have been settled the conversation happens suddenly in the bathroom as two days washing is loaded into the machine. The husband comes in and helps the wife thoughtfully, even though he too has had a hard day he understands that his wife works hard too, raising his sons and daughters. This is a team effort, this family he tells her and wraps a hand around her from behind and kisses the back of her neck. As the husband does this he realizes its been years since he pulled such a move and is surprised when his lovely wife grips his hand, hers is cold, and turns to face him, still holding his surprised hand and squeezing it a little too tight. We need to talk.

So the drama unfolds just there in the laundry, the dirty clothes lying at their feet while she says it isn’t working, she wants out. She invokes the bushfire metaphor. It is time to leave now before the burning front sweeps through and leaves them smoldering ash, another statistic in the wake of love’s destruction, too stupid to leave when they had the chance. Don’t let us become another example of people too blind to get out of their own way, who let ignorance and pride bring them down.

No the husband says. Not so fast. Look what we have here, don’t you remember the way we used to be? It can be like that again. And the children, they are beautiful and we have a responsibility to them. At least to try. To try to fight, stay and fight, the husband says. Ok, so we have fallen into rough patch, but that’s natural, there is tinder here for a fire to burn, he admits, but only if we let it. Only if we ignore the first signs. Only if we let the sparks go unchecked, but now we’ve admitted there’s a problem we can get the buckets of water and the hoses and we can put the small fire out before it burns us down.

The husband is persuasive, and he does have valid reasons the wife thinks, maybe she was too quick to jump ship. It’s not as bad as it seems. So the couple continue, move on with their lives and put out small fires as they arise, stamp on the sparks that come flying over the fence into the back yard, all the while fatigue grows, because the battle for love is long and arduous, takes resilience and composure. But fixing the tiny problems is distracting. Their eyes looking down for small fires while the sky above fills with dangerous black smoke so when the real fire finally arrives they are still there, they haven’t run and they don’t have the energy left to fight.

Does this sound like you or someone you know? Foolishly pushing forward with a marriage that should’ve ended long ago? Staying together for the kids is one of the most powerful reasons that people stay in toxic relationships. But the reality is that it can often be worse for them to grow up in a household where the love between parents has faded. It can often be better for all involved for the parents to live separately. To chose the lesser evil, as it were. So if this sounds like it might be you then you should consider looking into getting some help from professionals like those at many of the firms who deal with Family Law in Sydney .

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Is There A New York Cuisine?

August 6, 2013 by Momstart Leave a Comment

Is There A New York Cuisine?

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The Melting Pot of the World has been simmering away for almost 400 years now, spiced with the new flavors of a never-ending stream of migrants. This nickname for New York City can be traced back to a playwright called Israel Zangwill in 1908 and came about because of the city’s intense mix of immigrants from across Europe. The same can still be said today, with Chinese and Mexican immigrants as common as Irish or Italians were in the 19th century. But how is this ethnic mix shown in the city’s cuisine?

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Across the world the image of the brash New Yorker is synonymous with donuts and bagels. Neither would the crime scene be complete without New York-style thin-crust pizza (expect an earful if you’ve come expecting Chicago deep-pan pizzas). But these American foods are of course indebted to that same history of immigration. The ever-present street foods that make cheap holidays in New York, bookable through holiday comparison sites, still a viable option are hamburgers, pizzas, hot dogs, bagels and pretzels. Of these staples only the hamburger has a real claim to have been invented in America. Pizzas are of course Italian, while hot dogs, bagels and pretzels are the legacy of an influx of German immigrants at the turn of the 20th century.

Nonetheless street food trends are always changing. The surge of Middle Eastern falafel and kebab vendors is catching up on the burger market while Japanese ramen restaurants (noodle and meat broth) have continued to grow in popularity ever since the first Instant Noodles hit the streets. Mexican ‘tacos’ have taken a road trip from Los Angeles to hit the Big Apple while towering plates of African-American ‘soul food’ feature across Harlem and The Bronx. “Koreatowns” are challenging Chinatowns for precedence across the city.

Despite the civic pride in the history of immigration and integration in New York, no distinct cuisine has been born. And that is part of the adventure – when so many cultures are weaved into the City That Never Sleeps, you can sample a different cuisine at every meal.

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