Author Archive: Carole Ligi

Friends can be toxic to a marriage. It depends on the couple involved in the marriage and their choices of friends. Being toxic to a marriage may be intentional or unintentional. When a couple is married then they are committing…
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Raising children in an interfaith marriage is a challenge, but is possible. There are a lot of factors involved. How different are the religions? How strong are each of the spouse’s faith and activity? How strong is the marriage? And…
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There are many reasons why single women carry on affairs with married men.  Boredom, excitement, and the feeling of empowerment are a few.  But there is one reason that is seldom mentioned and that is low self esteem.   There could…
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Trust is something that is earned; especially between couples. Once the trust is lost it is extremely hard to regain. That is not to say that regaining trust is impossible, but hard. The two major concerns with trust between couples…
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Deciding to be a stay-at-home mom is one of the most rewarding and challenging jobs of all. But, at the same time it is one of the most unappreciated professions that exist. A stay-at-home mom holds many job titles including…
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Marriage counseling can work, but it depends on the intentions of all of the individuals involved. If both the husband and the wife choose to go to counseling to work on the problems with the marriage and both are invested…
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It is hard enough when you find out that your spouse that you thought that you would spend the rest of your life with is having an affair and now you have to process your own emotions and how you…
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The majority of couples go through periods where their marriage is a no longer the highest priority. At first everything appears to be wonderful on the surface. They danced closely at the wedding, visit and make time for both sides…
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Having an affair cannot only hurt one person it can hurt many. Having an affair is one of the most self-centered acts that a person can do to hurt others. First and foremost if a man or woman is married…
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In ideal cases, yes the father should have equal custody rights to his children. Again, in the ideal case, he has been a part of their lives up to the point of the divorce and hopefully helped in nurturing them…
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When a couple divorces, not only are the property and possessions split up, but often so are the mutual friends. Ideally the former couple can maintain ties, although separate now, with all of their mutual friends when they were married,…
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The term divorce may denote various negative connotations; primarily that a divorce means failure on the part of a spouse in keeping a marriage together.  There are few people, if any, that start a marriage with the intention of that if…
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There are arguments that alimony is archaic and unnecessary as part of a divorce settlement. The reason for this particular argument is that more women are in the workforce and that both spouses work and financially contributes to the household…
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Names identify who each of us are as individuals. Whether a woman chooses to keep her maiden name or switch to her husband’s name is entirely up to the decision of the woman. There is no wrong decision on this…
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It has become more acknowledged that there are different types of marital affairs. The old stereotype of the sexual affair, while too common and equally destructive, is not the only type of affair that destroys marriages. There are also emotional…
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