Marriage and Divorce

Marriages between introverts and extroverts can succeed. The fact is that marriages are not based on personality traits or preferences, but on communication, trust and commitment. An extrovert is someone who thrives in a crowd and will seek them out….
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Marriage, what a dynamic and combustible subject. Marriage can be a blessing or a bust, depending on how each person involved treats it. Matrimony is of extreme importance to a happy existence. If you can achieve success in it, you…
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When I married my second husband I knew what he was like to a degree but has become worse over the years. Maybe some of you think well “Serves you right you knew what he was like ” but love…
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The easy way out is to say “Yes!” of course. This is also the way to answer to allow people to justify a decision that will quite likely impact their lives and futures forever after. A couple living together without…
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Anyone who assumes total compatibility in his or her relationship based on simply dating a person is building a marriage that’s doomed to fail. It doesn’t matter how many nights you sleep over, or how many weekend trips you make…
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In order to have a healthy and long-lasting marriage, there are three questions that each partner should ask themselves on a regular basis. 1. “What do I bring/contribute to this marriage?”2. “Why would my spouse want to continue to live…
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Are you not getting any help around the house from your spouse? Is it a constant battle trying to get your other half to do their share? And if your obligation is to stay home taking care of the children;…
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Changing your spouses behavior also known as the project or the road to a sure divorce. Changing anyone, or wishing to change assume that you, the one who want to change the other is somehow superior. Only you wouldn’t use…
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Yes, Yes, A Thousand Times Yes! Much like securing a long-lasting career requires prior experience in a similar field/area of study, a great long-lasting relationship should have the same criteria. It’s pretty important to know the person you’re involved with,…
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I was in my twenties in the 70’s and while I never thought of myself as an overly religious person, I did consider myself to be spiritual. I was in college, meeting a lot of people and found myself looking…
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Living with someone before marriage decreases the odds of getting married. It may work well for a select few, but overall, it is a recipe to disaster. I suppose I could use a religious argument about premarital sex and breaking…
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Couples should definitely live together before marriage. Biblical and moral issues aside, it’s an important learning experience and an exercise everyone should endure. When not living together, it’s easy to hide aspects of your personality, whether it’s on purpose or…
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Couples should live together before getting married. It allows each partner the time and opportunity to become more bonded and secure within the relationship environment. However, before this decision can be made, there are many things to consider. Will she…
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I believe in cohabitation before getting married, which is in direct contrast of one of the basic tenets of my religion; because as a Catholic, the church’s viewpoint is that it is a sin to test-drive your relationship. While I…
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Marriage is a commitment two people make to each other. Exchanging vows, we promise to love and cherish “till death do us part”. A ceremony of beautiful words whispered at the alter. God, friends and family as our witnesses. So…
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We are in an era where relationships have a new meaning, a more personal meaning, gliding away from all of those old roles that society or religion dictated. However finding a balance in this new formulation of what a relationship…
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Reconnecting with your spouse IS THE KEY to a happy marriage. What do you get when you pair two bulls together in one corral? An awful lot of head butting! A Marriage in this predicament will most likely head straight…
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In today’s world some marriages are given up on that are still quite salvageable. Others drag on long past their expiry dates. Not everyone knows when to give up and when to keep trying. There is no formula, no hard…
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Many people have asked me the secret to a long happy marriage. After forty plus years and starting out as teenagers I think I can come up with some clues as to how we made it and are still very…
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The secret to a long lasting marriage is one thing: adjusting to inevitable change. That secret also has a corollary. Resistance to change can bring struggle, and the struggle comes when one or both of the partners in a marriage…
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When I first learned of the affair, a friend who had also experienced this told me it would take a year until I felt “normal” again. I looked at her in disbelief and prayed that she was wrong. I remember…
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A very sad marriage is also a sick marriage. The feelings of loneliness were always present even when we were together. If we tried to talk we ended up yelling, accusing, blaming each other for all the hurt each of…
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It is one of the most difficult decisions one will ever make in life whether or not to divorce. To effectively end what was once your security and all your hopes and dreams for the future can be gut-wrenching and…
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In this day and age I believe it is very important for couples to live together before getting married. In the past, the role of the husband and wife was clearly defined. The husband worked to support the family, while…
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So you want to have that perfect, always in love, never bitchy, never nagging, happy go lucky wife? LISTEN UP BOYS! That hot, foxy, confident, sex machine that you married can get wore out, squeeky, and oughhhhhh… even rusty after…
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Marriage as an afterthought is like buying a pair of running shoes for your son and presenting them to him at the finishing line – or halfway down the track. Pointless. Increasingly many couples are choosing to skip the marriage…
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We met when I was 23 and she was 24. Three and half years later we married. Almost two years later our beautiful daughter was born. And I really couldn’t be happier! I know exactly what can produce the right…
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When a couple is weighing the decision to live together with or without marriage as their goal it is not a matter of should or shouldn’t. Every couple is vastly different and there are entirely too many variables within each…
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In my opinion all couples should live together before getting married. The old stigma attached to living in sin’ is a thing of the past and in modern society a person can live with their partner free from shame. As…
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No, couples should not live together before getting married. Because living together is shacking, and unbiblical, couples should wait to live together after they are married. So often couples who insist on cohabiting before marriage, never commit to marriage. They…
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