This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford.

At self-work we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world

and what to do about them.

I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work.

Hi and welcome or welcome back to self-work. I'm so glad you're here. I want to thank all the people who've been writing me, emailing me.

I've already gotten several just this month of July. I'm so glad to get to know who you are, where you listen, what's going on in your life,

so that I know better what kind of podcast you might want to listen to. Thanks so much.

I'll give you my email a little bit later and it is confidential by the way.

Today we're going to be talking about marriage or long-term partnership.

Long-term commitment is the focus. I'm going to tell you a little bit about my own personal life,

how I met my husband, what the circumstances were,

when right before our 24th wedding anniversary,

I wrote a blog post that went much to my amazement

wildly viral on the Huffington Post. We're going to talk about that blog post,

whatever press reaction there was to it, and I'm actually going to read it to you.

It just so happens, and you might have heard this on a previous podcast, but I have published

this little blog post, and it's available in book form now. It's called

Marriage is not for chickens. But we're going to talk about the actual items in

some detail. Basically what marriage is and what marriage is not. And then

lastly we'll hear from a listener who wrote in about having crippling anxiety

and a diagnosis of generalized

anxiety disorder and wanted to know what she should do. So if you're considering a

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