Marriage and Divorce

Q. What is the point of some couples not marrying, especially when they have been in long relationships? People meet, feel attraction, love, sex, have children, and stay with each other as a couple. But they are not married and…
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Marriage between two faiths is a very interesting to be honest. So far, the marriages in my family have been interfaith at best.There were only two marriages on my side of the family where both spouses were of the same…
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Open marriage, the modern interpretation of which is to have one’s individual room for personal growth and for developing outside friendship, is a controversial term. This term arises the questions of trust, identity and equality between each partner of a…
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Theoretical Background of Marriage Counseling  What is marriage counseling? Is marriage counseling different from individual counseling? The answer depends upon whom you ask. For the most part, marriage counseling is different from individual counseling because marriage counseling involves a family…
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Ahh, it’s the holiday season again! The time of giving and families, togetherness and warmth. For some, it’s a time of stress and guilt. Whether your spouse has a tendency to over do it a little over the holidays or…
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I have not been in an open marriage-but my parents have. When I was three years old, my parents (let’s call them Don and Jennifer) were close friends with another couple (let’s call them Carl and Karen). They were all…
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A little openness goes a long way. But there are times when even a little can go too far. Open marriages are mutually agreed upon situations where a couple allows relations sexual and otherwise to occur with persons outside the…
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Whether refusing to give up smoking is grounds for divorce is a matter of personal limitations. If you are a nonsmoker married to a smoker, how does your spouse’s smoking affect you? Does it make you sick? Make your home…
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In the beginning of time it was said by the Lord that living with a person that you are not married to was wrong and we never really understood what the big deal was about. Now as time has went…
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While marriage is one of the most sacred relationships any of us will experience in our lives, some of us make the mistake of not protecting that relationship from the temptations of the world. Having an open marriage leads straight…
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Love is something special. It goes far beyond being a emotion that can be defined in terms that everyone can understand. When you express your love for someone, you find it hard to truly convey all the feelings that you…
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Marriage will not last when commitment is only one-sided. This is because a marriage is a relationship that requires full commitment and dedication, not only by one person, but by the two persons involved. That is precisely the reason why…
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Commitment to marriage should be an equal partnership having both husband and wife equally vested in the relationship they have chosen to enter into as partners for life. Many times couples are lucky enough to respect one another to realize…
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He was my male best friend. She was my female best friend. He wanted to get married but I wasn’t ready. I cared for him and we were intimate but I wasn’t in love. She had been in very bad…
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No marriage comes with a manual, it has to be worked at and it has to be a joint effort or it will come to an end. When one partner seems to be making all the efforts to keep the…
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The honeymoon stage can last a lifetime if two people are truly in love and are Soul Mates. Since so many people marry someone before they truly know them, this usually is not the case. Two people date and spend…
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Should parents who arealways arguing stay together for the sake of the kids? Q. I think people who are arguing all the time and giving a negative impression of family life to the kids watching them…are better off separated and…
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There are many conditions that must be met before you can speak of a great sex life. A man and a woman nowadays go to bed and have sex in a very casual manner; they may not even know each…
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A True Testimony of an Open Marriage First, I want you to know that I am an open-minded person. I am a junior-level psychology at University of Wisconsin-Platteville. I have had the opportunity of listening to people while “spill their…
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First we must take a look at the commonly accepted definition of pornography or “porn”. According to the dictionary, pornography consists of  “obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit” And goes on…
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People are taught early in life what a marriage is supposed to be, from the handsome prince, through to “happily ever after”. As teenagers, they daydream of the perfect date with the perfect date. She, of the buckteeth and he of the…
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What happened to courting your spouse, marrying your spouse, and then having kids? Marriage is supposed to be between two people willing to share their lives with one another. What happened to the joy of waking up to someone who…
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Gary Chapman’s book entitled “The Five Love Languages” has helped thousands of readers around the world understand how to fill the emotional tanks of those they love. His work continues to fill a niche all its own and his unique…
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Have you ever used the phrase “it seems like only yesterday”? If you have uttered those words in regards to your wedding day or several years after your honeymoon, then you are obviously enjoying marital bliss and an extended honeymoon….
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Marriage is a commitment made between two people to love, honor and cherish one another, through all that life brings their way. Both people are necessary to make the marriage a success and avoid the all too familiar failures that…
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Marriage can go through so many stages and where the honeymoon stage is typically bliss, other stages of marriage can be so much more blissful. The honeymoon stage of marriage is a thrill; hormones are high and each partner is…
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When commitment is one-sided, a marriage ends up either being a marriage in name only, or not a marriage all. This is because marriage is a relationship, a covenant that two people make with each other. Where no covenant exists…
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Ever wonder how some couples still seem to be on their honeymoon years after they were married? How do some couples manage to keep that spark alive after so many years of being with the same person? Remembering why you…
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It is said that, “Romantic love is chemically induced temporary insanity.” If you accept this as a truism, what do you do to maintain this blissful insanity after the chemical endorphins wear off? If falling in love begins with a…
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There are many occasions, often in the glitzy show business world, where a highly-publicized marriage is obviously a one-sided affair. A wealthy, older sexually-obsessed person marries a much younger, financially-obsessed mate. For instance, in 1994, 27-year-old ex-stripper Anna Nicole Smith…
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