Marriage and Divorce

Marriage requires team work. This is especially true when it comes to resolving conflict. The absence of a team approach to working through differences can lead to problems that grow worse over time. Blaming is a frequent symptom in marriages that lack team work….
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In a family where traditional Christian values are in place, the leader of the home is the husband (father). It is often misunderstood that this position of leadership is in someway meant to glorify the man. This was not the…
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The Key To A Successful Marriage Is Learning To Forgive Through Acceptance Is your marriage locked up tight because you need to forgive your spouse? When our marriage becomes locked up and a spouse has thrown away the key, nothing…
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Should couples live together before getting married? Yes. Do you test drive a car before you buy it and plan to drive it for only five years? Yes. Do you get three opinions before having any surgery? Yes. Do you…
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Can a cradle Catholic ever find happiness with a dedicated Presbyterian? That was the question I asked myself thirty years ago. The answer was of vital importance because, besides myself, I had to consider the future welfare of my four…
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If you have married well and married wisely your spouse may likely be your best friend, someone you always turn to in times of hardship and times of joy. Throughout the twenty five years of my marriage to my best…
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True love is the fluttering of your heart every time he holds your hand, the way his eyes haze over when he looks at your face. This gives way in time to a deeper understanding and respect for each other,…
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Marriage will be uplifting and will send positive energy throughout your life but only if the husband and wife wants it to be. There are a lot of factors that go along way in developing a healthy and vibrant marriage….
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As a child, I did not witness the greatest example of marital relationships. There was much turmoil within my household. Tough economic times, insecurities and the simple lack of productive communication, all contributed to a dysfunctional marriage between my parents….
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Why respect is crucial to the success of a marriage? Respect is the key to keeping a successful, loving marriage! Watch what and how you speak your words to anyone because they are crucial to how a spouse or others…
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Getting married soon? Take the time before the marriage begins to ask some serious questions about money and financial management. If you both know the answers to these questions, then you will be in a better position to handle situations…
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So many marriages fail because the two individuals entering into the union do not understand the difficulty marriage entails. I am in my seventh year of marriage bliss and it has been six years, ten months, and sixteen days of…
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Marriage is a blessing. It brings joy and happiness, comfort, and intimacy. Living, breathing, and planning a future as a couple is a wonderful experience. Marriage also requires commitment, hard work, and most of all, respect. Life can bring a…
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Unfortunately there is no clear cut way to delineate household duties in today’s society. What, with layoffs, job changes, hours worked and such it is nearly impossible to assign one task to one person. So…  I have found that delineation…
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In order to be a good husband you need to communicate and share your feelings with your wife.  After being married for awhile it is easy to forget that your partner can not read your mind. Sharing your feelings with words,…
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Being married is very, very hard. You only need to look at statistics to see that nowadays 50% of all marriages will eventually end up in divorce. 50%! That is an outlandish number. How do we as couples start out…
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Many people are mistakenly under the impression that a long and happy marriage is built on sparks and feelings, when in reality the key to a long and happy relationship is to build it on hard emotional work and commitment….
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In this day and age, making a marriage work takes more than just sheer desire at times. With do it yourself divorces and multitudes of single friends abounding, it’s much easier to scrap what may seem to be a hopeless…
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Despite modern-day’s innovations and conveniences, including ongoing technologies in just about every area of our lives, not much has changed regarding the division of labor in households between husbands and wives. For most, it continues to be a foregone conclusion…
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Requiring spousal consent for a married woman to have an abortion gives manipulative and abusive men a weapon to use against women. In a healthy marital relationship, a woman is thrilled to tell her husband she is pregnant. The birth…
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There’s the cooking and the dishes to do, then you’ve got the sweeping and mopping, oh wait-let’s not forget to scrub the toilets and showers. The list is long, and when you’ve got children the list is endless. Think about…
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Your marriage seems like it’s going to explode. It’s a veritable time bomb. You must hurry and find a marriage counselor. But hold on. Slow down. You’re at a critical juncture. Make the wrong move, cut the wrong wire, and…
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Maintaining close friends is important to a marriage because it helps a person remain rooted in who they are. It is easy for one to lose who they are once they become married because so many things change in their…
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Restraining orders otherwise known as an EPO ( Emergency Protective Order) are seldom effective in keeping a violent spouse away from their intended victim. Actually in most cases it puts the woman at more risk due to the fact the…
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A marriage is all about sharing. Whenever two people get married, on an unconscious level they are accepting that from this day onward they are going to share each and every aspect of their life with one another. Life after…
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My husband cheated on me, and our marriage has survived! Admittedly, he did something which I understand that few cheating husbands do he came to me early in his “cheating” and essentially admitted/confessed to me that he was a one-woman-man…
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If your husband or boyfriend spends all of their spare time playing video games, rather than spending quality time with you or your family, here are a few fun ways to get his attention: #1: Smash, bury or hide his…
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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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Mothers are determined to “help” their married children survive relationships. Why do mothers interfere with your marriage? They have been there and done that and want to save their children from the pain and hurt of having to repeat their…
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Can a relationship survive without sex? Most likely. Can it survive without intimacy, not truly. Sex is so easy to find. On any given night or day there are millions of personal ads, phone sex lines and escort service to…
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