Understand your spouse better

All women ask themselves at one point "what do men think" and then we spend hours over herbal tea trying to decode their behavior.
All men ask themselves "what do women want" and then they drink a beer and watch a game.
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Breaking the silence

It is excruciating doing something that you love and know that it is the last time you do it.

I had my last flight. Last time I wore the uniform, last PA, last briefing and last time I walk through the airport of Mrs Van CM. I love my job with passion, so this has been a very hard thing to do.

Our blogospheric absence in the past 2 months happened because we are relocating.

Mr. Van was offered a 3 year confirmed location. And when he asked what I thought about it, I listened to my intuition first and rational side later and I said YES honey, of course, let's move to

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Life Simplified - Let's get started!

As I was vowing earlier, I want our life to get simpler, more joy and less attachment to 'stuff'.

I got started by identifying my biggest clutter area and the cause for the hole in my budget: the closet. I open and for the first time I see a simple fact: I have 7 shelves, 2 drawers plus a closet, while my dear husband has been allocated and survived on 1 ½ shelf and 2 boxes. Plus the sizable suitcase he has with him, I say to myself to make it easier to digest. How can a man (him) survive with only 5 pairs of shoes? And how come a woman (me) say she has nothing to wear when she has 50? A mystery that will never be solved I guess… And how come I have been wearing the same pair of jeans for the past month?

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A little domestic experiment...

On one of our latest drives between Dubai and Abu Dhabi Mrs Van came up with the concept of the ‘nagging bracelet’. This bracelet is made out of plastic, thread or whatever you have around your house. It would be passed on from Mr to Mrs and vice-versa every time one of you is nagging.

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Life Simplified

I look around our small one bedroom and all I can see is stuff: pillows in various shapes and sizes; magazines, some recent, some from 2004; cheap jewelry that I never wear(who needs a fur ring?); not only my bridal bouquet, but also the flowers that were given to us from the hotel we spent our first ‘married’ night; stones and sand from various locations; souvenirs from all over; books; shoes, shampoos, carvings, kitchen accessories, and the list can continue for pages. In short, a truckload of …nothing.

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