Marriage and Divorce

As it was once said: one doesn’t have to be happy to be married every minute of every day, but one should be happy that one is married every day. Love for someone is always constant, but love itself is…
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I am blessed to have a spouse who understands what big deal money can be in a marriage. She also benefits from a personal experience of living in a home during her formative years in which money was not plentiful….
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Marriage is wonderful, delightful and blissful, but what about the things no-one tells you about marriage. Does anyone tell you that you now have to share. Well that’s all fine and dandy, if you’re used to sharing. What if you’re…
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The day of romance, February fourteenth is quickly approaching. What husband, might be looking for ways to romance his wife. Some husbands might even wish to start a romantic gesture and celebrate the same way each Valentine Day.Wait! Why wait…
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Being a newlywed of ten months now, I have sobered into the reality of a world that is far from that of the fairytale life I dreamed up as a child. As a blossoming teenager, I spent many of my…
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Our marriage has been one surprise after another. We married and had our first child at age fifteen. My first surprise was the day I realized that my husband was controlling and demanding. Life was not what I had expected…
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My husband and I are celebrating our sixteenth Wedding Anniversary this month. The question is marriage really worth it? My answer would have to be yes. As a young girl, I grew up with parents that had a good marriage….
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Marriage is a relationship that involves sharing of responsibilities. When two consenting adults vow “to have and to hold” each other; they also agree to handle all challenges that would come their way. Sharing is one very important aspect of…
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All your relationships will have varying degrees of intimacy attached to them, with those who are closest to you being the recipients of your most personal thoughts and feelings. The level of intimacy in a relationship is usually what really…
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Whether it has been one year or twenty-five years together, married couples around the world are often trying to find ways to inject a little more love and romance into their relationships. After a certain period of time, it is…
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I grew up in the 50’s. My mom was the June Cleaver of Oakmont, and my dad worked long hours to support us. I remember my mom bustling around the kitchen getting dinner ready, doing laundry, vacuuming, taking care of…
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Change Managment Over time, people change. That is an inevitable fact of life. But, we also have to wonder if we can trust our own memories as our mental capabilities fade. What defines us as people is how we deal…
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You can’t just ignore it. You have no choice: one way or the other, you must deal with a jealous partner. An initial reaction to being asked to recommend a method of coping with a troublesome person might be: Why…
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Sometimes the most obvious things in life are the things that people struggle with the most in their daily lives. Should people share their feelings in marriage? Sure. Do they? Not always. It would seem to make sense that one…
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“What was I thinking?” Has this question ever crossed your mind when your spouse asks you for the millionth time where the sugar is? Or wakes up for the third time this week in the mother of all moods and…
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It can be argued that marriage really cannot be “defined” by anything. Even a modern understanding of marriage is a construct of current Western thought processes. It is true that marriage cannot be universally defined by religion. The reason for…
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Some level of jealousy is not uncommon in relationships, but it should still not be accepted as “just part of the process.” Coping with a jealous partner can be very uncomfortable because it can create a tug-of-war that involves time,…
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Human beings are not always equipped to satisfy absolute conditions yet we tend to cleave to ideals for better or for worse. “Better” can be a tough or sweet pill to swallow depending on our dream states and “always” is…
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Jealousy is very common in relationships. It can cause problems if the jealousy isn’t dealt with. However, it isn’t always easy to take care of in a positive and productive way. Still, it can be done. Nearly all marriages or…
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As the George W. Bush Presidency in the US pushed for a Constitutional amendment to define marriage to be a “sacred institution between one man and one woman,” the backlash of that misguided campaign woke the American public to a…
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You never marry your dream man, really. You see, the trouble with the Dream Man is that he is a Dream. He does not really exist. Even when you think you’ve found him in real life, and even if you…
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Love holds no one prisoner. Our idea of jealousy has become smeared with falsity these days. Relationships have become disposable and our homes have become flooded with everything we do not say and everything we do not do. I have…
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When it comes to marital difficulties there are no simple black and white answers. A marriage fails because one partner or the other doesn’t see eye to eye or becomes far too emotional to see reason and refuses to work…
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Sadness and despair are inevitable for a child when they experience the trauma of divorce, a situation that leads to one of the parents leaving the family home. helping children deal with this emotionally upsetting scenario is no easy task…
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It is a scientific fact that children do ENORMOUSLY better in joint custody arrangements. The only reason this is resisted by the existing for-profit divorce industry is there are easily $50 billion in annual legal fees in custody battles and…
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Are you crazy? Of course he should. Only way he shouldn’t is if he’s a deadbeat loser. And only the courts can ever prove that. And in a lot of cases, the father looks less than he really is. For…
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Divorce is never easy. It is important to realize that there is a certain grieving process that all family members are going through, and your preschooler is no exception. If we consider how emotionally confusing this is to us as…
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Teenagers feel just as much stress and confusion regarding divorce as adults do. They usually suffer from feeling of sadness, frustration, and anger. Given the right support, your teen will be able to express their feelings, grieve their loss, and…
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Fathers should have equal custody rights in divorce cases when he does an equal share. It all depends, during the marriage if the father dealt with his children as much as the mother and shared the work and education. It…
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It was around this time four years ago that I had to tell my children their father and I were divorcing. I will give you a brief sypnosis on how the divorce affected them in the moment they were told,…
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