Marriage and Divorce

I definitely think a husband and wife, who both work, should share the housework to make a marriage successful. If both people do not share the household chores, there will be resentments, tempers will flare, fusses, equality problems, burnt-out feelings,…
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Modern divorce rates suggest people often fail to consider all the factors involved in being married, including age.  When one person is older than the other, the importance of that factor increases. People call them May-December marriages.   In most cases…
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The quantity of folk having affairs these days is staggering, married women affairs is extremely hard to a person who is hunting for it and will go to great lengths to try it. The issue is that many of those…
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If sharing housework with my husband was the key to a successful marriage, I would have been divorced a long time ago. He would have divorced me. I hate housework. I have tried to explain to my husband that we…
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Mental illness is often a very silent and hidden disease. Some women never find out that they married a mentally ill man until the vows have been taken. The men these women dated are gone and the metally ill men…
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Television likes to believe that it is a great educator over a number of areas. The thought is that it is trying to convince itself, rather than the general public. One element of this is the way that it represents…
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The question who should control the budget in a family has been a question asked over and over again. This can be a very difficult decision for some family’s based on the age of the Man and Women that are…
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As a Christian, I occasionally hear sermons about the topic of gender roles in marriage.  My ears always perk up whenever a pastor chooses to address this issue.  Many religious leaders claim that the reason for so many broken families…
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When you ask if marriage is really worth it I have to say no because I have been there two times. The first marriage lasted for twenty years and the second one for almost ten years. I feel like even…
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Redemption. This is a word used to describe someone who has been saved from something. Being saved from destruction, or making a mends for past sins and now the person making a mends have a euphoric feeling of self-salvation. Let…
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How to be a better wife? Do we as men wish that we had a better wife? If so, I imagine that the problem is within us as men more so than with the woman that we chose to be…
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Marrying someone older than yourself? There are factors to take into account, some serious, others not so. For myself I am dangerously close to the area where someone older than myself can only be found in the local church (grounds…
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Thy name is woman… Two days. Two days of total bliss…that’s what I was fortunate to experience on a recent weekend getaway. Reminiscing about it now, I think I speak for a majority of women when I say that we…
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My mother used to say to me often, men are must like babies. I did not think much about that statement when I was younger. I could have cared the least bit about a man. My mind was on climbing…
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When is the right time to start having kids? This question is one that can be answered in several different ways, and I say, “When a man and woman has agreed they want to have a child, then it is…
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We Shall Live and Die by the Sword, Obey the Last Command are statements best associated with soldiers. So any one pitching the marriage tent with some one in the military that have the above statements as a defining guide…
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How to Build a Healthy Marriage With over fifty percent of marriages ending in divorce, it seems the secret to a healthy marriage has escaped the majority of the population. That is because building a healthy marriage takes a great…
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Marriages are made in heaven. All of us have heard this repeated a million times, but the fact is that marriages may be made in heaven but they have to be dealt with by mere mortals, like us, on Earth….
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Marriage after 15 years is a test of time. I love my husband on so many levels. My emotions for my husband run wild. I love this man, I crave this man, I need this man like a drug. We’ve…
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To build a healthy marriage, begin with a foundation of respect. Once respect is set in stone, friendship should frame your love. That’s what a healthy marriage does, but even soul mates must maintain what they build up. Otherwise, the…
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Just as building a healthy body requires the right amount of food nutrients and exercise, building a healthy marriage requires same: the right attitude, planning, and actions. Marriages fail for many reasons, most of which are unnecessary, and could have…
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Charles Swindoll wrote a type of marriage manual years ago entitled: One Brick At a Time. In his helpful little book, he outlined characteristics that served as invaluable building materials for any healthy marriage. I’ve since misplaced that handy dandy…
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A healthy marriage is the goal of everyone entering this union. Marriage requires hard work, trust, love, respect and the understanding the once single individual has now become part of a team. It is important to have faith in one…
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How To Build A Healthy Marriage Building a healthy marriage should start long before any “I do” is uttered, as healthy marriages are greatly dependent on the motivation of the couples involved, and their reasons for wanting to get married….
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Couples have to work at keeping their relationship alive. You may as well spend the time to make it alive and happy. Happiness doesn’t just happen. You have to set your mind on achieving it. When both partners are determined…
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Marriage: Fantasy Versus Reality Have you read a book or watched a movie with a married couple in it and said to yourself That’s what I want my marriage to be like. Everything is perfect! Fantasy has a nasty habit…
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Planning to build a healthy marriage (or a happy family for that matter) is a decision, not an accidental realization during the couple’s mature years or during the time when the marriage is crumbling into pieces. In fact, the building…
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Before you had children, as a couple, you could stay in bed until noon on a Saturday, forget to eat dinner and stay out having fun until all hours of the night. You could actually speak to each other in…
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You married “til death do us part”. Well before death usually comes retirement. It is unusual for a couple to retire at the same time, usually one spouse retires before the other. How do you survive the change in your…
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The most important part of any marriage is a good basic foundation. Without a stable foundation the marriage is sitting on shaky ground. In order to have a healthy marriage constant nurturing must be given to the relationship on a…
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