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Hi, everybody! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel, and in today’s video I’ll share our new anniversary ritual – the annual state of the marriage OR our annual marriage performance review. My husband and I just celebrated our 20th year anniversary.  We are not big gift givers.  Nor are we people who have extensive rituals for anniversaries. March is a great getaway month, so we used to travel for anniversaries, but the arrival of children 16 years ago put an end to that. This year we tried something a little different than usual. But one that I think will become a part of our anniversary every year. We did a state of our union evaluation.  OK — I know this sounds a little clinical and therapeutic. But why is it that marriage is the one part of our lives where we don’t devote energy to regular review and fine-tuning?  After all, we take our cars into the shop for regular maintenance, we have annual performance reviews for our job performance, and...