What’s the Love Code in Your House?

What in the world do I mean when I say “love code”?  It’s a kind of code that forms from observations you made growing up. The code can be influenced by your parent’s marriage or another relationship you admired throughout your childhood. What you observed can subconsciously – or perhaps consciously – influence how you relate to your husband or children. 

When Mark and I got married we brought very different love codes into our new life together. In my Irish, Italian family, if you were upset...