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    I Love You ... I Love You More!: 10 Secrets for a Successful Marriage and a Satisfying Life
    I Love You ... I Love You More!: 10 Secrets for a Successful Marriage and a Satisfying Life
    I Love You ... I Love You More!: 10 Secrets for a Successful Marriage and a Satisfying Life
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    I Love You ... I Love You More!: 10 Secrets for a Successful Marriage and a Satisfying Life

    By Robert H. Scott Jr.

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    A happy and successful marriage doesnt just happen. It requires communication and a plan. In I Love You I Love You More!, author Robert H. Scott Jr. presents ten insights that will help couples enjoy a happy and successful marriage and satisfying life.

    Based on his experiences during his nearly forty-five-year marriage to his wife, Sandra, who died after a battle with cancer, Scott communicates the qualities of a sound marriage. In I Love You I Love You More!, he discusses ten important insights against the backdrop of the issues every marriage faces during the cycle of life, including:

    Living life day by day Addressing the joys and challenges of children and marriage Understanding how careers affect marriage Growing old Dealing with illness and death Tackling legal issues

    As Scott reflects on his marriage to the love of his life, he imparts valuable insights to all couples seeking meaningful and satisfying relationships.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMar 21, 2011
    ISBN9781462004201
    I Love You ... I Love You More!: 10 Secrets for a Successful Marriage and a Satisfying Life
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    Robert H. Scott Jr.

    Robert H. Scott Jr. earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Kenyon College and a law degree from Duke University. Scott is the author of How to Keep What You Make: The Secrets of Money Management.

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      I Love You ... I Love You More! - Robert H. Scott Jr.

      Copyright © 2011 Robert H. Scott Jr.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4620-0419-5 (pbk)

      ISBN: 978-1-4620-0421-8 (clth)

      ISBN: 978-1-4620-0420-1 (ebk)

      Printed in the United States of America

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      Dedicated to my wife, Sandra Lou Carroll Scott (1943-2009).

      My only love, my constant companion, my very best friend, and the most loving parent to our children. I miss her every day and with all my heart. May she be at peace and waiting for the day we are together once more when it is time for me to join her in the one last adventure in the cycle of living that we all share.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter One A Life Well Lived

      Chapter Two What Makes a Marriage a Success?

      Chapter Three Living Life Day by Day

      Chapter Four Marriage and Children, the Joys and Challenges

      Chapter Five Careers and Marriage

      Chapter Six Adolescence to College

      Chapter Seven Growing Older, Dealing with Empty Nest and Aging Parents

      Chapter Eight Challenge of Illness

      Chapter Nine Legal Issues as We Grow Older

      Chapter Ten Dealing with Loss of your Life Partner

      In Conclusion

      Introduction

      The day before Christmas Eve, with us at her bedside, my wife of nearly forty five years passed away peacefully from advanced cancer, diagnosed only two months before.

      The loss of my only love, constant companion, and best friend brought with it more grief than I could have ever expected. Even though we had known from the day of diagnosis that her condition was terminal and that we did not have much time left, we thought we had more time than we did. The estimate was maybe two weeks the day she died – but we had only a few more hours. Knowing the end was near did not take away the enormous shock of losing her that day, not only for me but for my two adult children.

      This book is not, however, just about loss or grief or moving on. It is instead a story of an enduring love which hopefully will help others to have the kind of relationship that Sandy and I had in our life together. Sandy’s was truly a life well lived and our marriage a great joy and success.

      This story is also intended as a caution, particularly for young women, about dealing with their health and with the health industry to protect themselves and their families. A warning too for their partners and families, to be alert to the things that are too easy to overlook as we all lead our busy lives.

      The title of this book is from how my wife and I closed nearly every night of our marriage. While it became a loving routine, after her passing I have continued to say these words to her each night and will do so the rest of my life until we are together once again.

      It is my desire to pass on lessons we learned in a long and loving marriage; hoping it will benefit others in living their lives. While it is a very personal story, the lessons are ones that anyone should consider to have a lasting relationship and to have a truly successful life.

      Chapter One

      A Life Well Lived

      My wife, Sandy, was a teacher. No, not just a teacher, she was an educator in the truest sense of that word. She cared deeply for her students and went far beyond what was required of her to make sure that they had the support and direction they needed as they moved from childhood into adulthood. It was a pleasure to hear her talk about her students and to see her in the classroom, on the playing fields, and in their everyday lives.

      She gave to her students the kind of love and attention she gave to me as her husband and to our two children as they grew up and as they became adults. No student or family could ask for more. Despite only a one day notice, and in the midst of a terrible ice storm, over three hundred parents, teachers, students, and friends, many coming from long distances, braved the storm to attend her visitation. It was humbling and heartwarming to see just how much she had touched the lives of others.

      We developed early in our marriage a rules of thirds for our life together and while this was only a very rough plan of how we wanted our lives to go — and we found lives never go as planned — we were fortunate how much did work out for us. Our plan, if given a full lifetime, was to spend the first third getting our education, the next third raising our family and working at our careers and hopefully earning and saving enough to enjoy the last

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