Marriage and Divorce

Marriage Vows My parents were married in 1941, on a beautiful October day in a pretty old church in Stratford, CT. My mother had to be as pretty a bride as there ever was, my father the handsomest groom, joining…
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Message boards and forums on the Internet and in magazines that invite discussions on marital success, secrets to marital satisfaction and marital disappointments, have some of the busiest and liveliest exchanges you could see anywhere. You commonly come across in…
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Successfully getting a separation agreement requires work on the part of both parties to a marriage, and the more the couple can decide between themselves, the less they will have to pay for the agreement to be put into place….
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You wait in anticipation for the big moment as your hands begin to sweat. Your nerves are a wreck, and your stomach begins to turn flips the moment you walk down the isle. The church is packed as the preacher…
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Marital longevity, like so many precious traditions and ways, has been sent to the back seat of life. The more years that pass and the less people from the older generations that are around, the more the traditions of the…
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Ever since the dawn of civilization, a man’s worth is a measure of his status and success. Traditionally, this was defined by a man’s capacity to support himself and his family, be it through hunting, fighting or farming. Nowadays, while…
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The balance between career and family is very delicate. I love my wife and daughter, I would do anything for them, go to the ends of the earth….but I love work, and I love my job. My wife has been,…
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Ideally, no child would be brought into this world without two parents who wanted him or her desperately. However, this is often not the case. If you truly feel that you are not ready for a child, then you should…
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Yes, I believe working men should have to do some form of chores be it housework or yard work. After all working women have to do chores, plus take care of the baby, plus work so…the men can tough it…
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The male tendency to childish behavior, in my opinion, is not that much different from the female tendency to childish behavior. We grow up but carry our child within ourselves. That child brings with him or her and keeps tucked…
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Hopefully, no one bases real life marriage on marriage scenes portrayed on television. Thirty minutes once a week of a marriage is no where close to eight hours, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year. Real life does not…
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Work is a great part of what we do for our family. It is perhaps better to think of looking for balance between work time and home time, rather than work and family. What happens when one or both of…
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This may have been a good notion in its day of conception, when humans only lived a very short time. Men and women worked hard to just stay alive. Couples didn’t spend a lot of quality time together. Most of…
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A Sunday; for some, it is a day of rest, after a long hard workweek. For others, the day of repentance, a day of forgiveness, a day of faith. For others, it’s the enjoyment of spending the day watching football….
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Parenting and being a wife, especially when coupled together, should be ranked at the top of the list for most difficult jobs on earth. As if that is not enough to deal with, how about those hormones that lash out…
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When it comes to the division of chores and bills in a marriage it often helps to not have preordained roles and responsibilities. The most successful marriages seem to be the ones where both parties pitch in and share the…
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Matrimony has a way of complicating things more than you ever thought possible. Now, marriage is a beautiful thing. It’s supposed to be a symbol of a lifelong commitment that is based on love, but it is not all sugar…
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Marriage can bring both the best and the worst out of all of us. With the changing times, however, some people are finding it hard to draw boundaries when it comes to things such as who pays what bills and…
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There are no perfect people, therefore there are no perfect relationships. The best that we can hope for is to find the person that is perfect for us, as imperfect individuals ourselves, and build a healthy and happy relationship with…
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For women who are fortunate enough to have a man who is able and willing to be the sole breadwinner for the family, it should be a priority to coordinate your husband’s career and home life in the most comfortable…
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Often times in the accelerated pace of today’s society, families are discovering more reasons to separate. Each family member plays a specific role in the home; however, as the traditional perception of home gradually drifts toward extinction, families tend to…
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One of the most important decisions you will make in life is to find your personal faith. The second most important decision that you will ever make is finding your life partner. Life can get extremely complicated, when you find…
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In America today, we have many reasons to be grateful for the work that our enlisted men and women are willing to do to serve our country. It doesn’t matter if we agree with the reasons for their work or…
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It can be very difficult to handle when your spouse is overseas in military service. You never really know if this person is safe and they are going to come home safely. Dealing with loneliness connected to their deployment is…
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A great marriage makes both partners feel happy, secure, and accepted. Love is the foundation for a good marriage, but to make it great, there must be other elements involved as well. Respect Mutual respect is the most important element…
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It is a very normal thing in a long-term relationship to wonder if your woman really loves you. As the years go by, daily life can get busy and those things that once shouted your love for one another from…
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Most people look forward to, and go into, marriage believing many myths. The problem is often that the definition of marriage is lost. Brides and grooms alike are looking for love, fulfillment, roses and happily ever after. That’s not what…
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With millions of fish in the sea, how can a girl choose the one for her? Mr. Right may not always pop out among the crowd. In fact, Mr. Wrong is often the most persuasive, the loudest, and the most…
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In the past century, marriage has gone through many changes and transitions. What began as a hallowed institution to be honored and even desired above almost anything else has become something that may have been virtually unrecognizable by our forebears….
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Men are, by their very nature, less sensitive than women for the most part. In prior generations, a woman wouldn’t even have considered trying to make him into a closer rendition of themselves by incorporating things such as emotions or…
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