Scuse the wait, folks.  As it was when she grew up in the frozen North, the Naughty Bride's been off on Spring Break, only to find an avalanche upon her return.  Luckily, this is sunny Southern California, so the white stuff is all paperwork.  Bad paperwork.  Mean paperwork.  Buzzkill paperwork.  Not naughty, not sexy, not fun.  But it's the same at your house, so we won't dwell.  

A couple of weeks post-break, The Naughty Bride finds that her desk is still unshoveled and the issues with our current marital climate remain.  To wit, newspapers are reporting that the economy is so bad, divorces are actually down because no one can afford attorneys anymore.  That's good news for realtors (keeps houses off the market) and bad news for marriage therapists (still beyond most marriages' means), so we here at Naughty Bride HQ are revamping the site.  Instead of playing around with wedding etiquette and poking fun at the day's bridal news, we'll be offering tips and tricks for staying together... and poking fun at the day's bridal news.  

Call it a second honeymoon at home, if you will, in the middle of a long marriage.  After all, like The Naughty Bride and the man we call her First Husband, we've been together a while, us here at Naughty Brides and you out there. 

And why not mix metaphors?  This time, as always, but never more so than when we've just been reminded of the tax advantages to filing jointly, the trick is to make ourselves forget that the marital bed is our lifeboat.  So grab a paddle and let's get busy.  First ones to smooch on the beach, win.