Marriage and Divorce

How to put positive energy into a marriage relationship. A marriage has many phases, twists and turns that of course is assuming it lasts very long. When my husband and I got married we were both looking for a complement…
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After 25 years of marriage and some serious time as a volunteer counselor, I’ve learned what’s important in staying in marriage relationships long term. The biggest reason marriages hit a dead end is unrealistic expectations. There are so many fantasies…
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Marriage is a large commitment made by both partners to the marriage. Before your friends, a justice of the peace, a minister, and/or your family, as the case may be, you promise to love and cherish your significant other until…
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How many times over the course of your life have you been told, “You just need to accept the fact that…?” A statement like this can leave you wondering if you are being asked to settle for less than what…
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Why would a happy home need to have a husband or a wife boss? Husband and wife should both be adults who understand how to get along and take care of matters in an adult manner. If you are in…
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Positive energy is the cement that will ultimately hold your marriage together. Every marriage needs to be infused with it daily. I think of myself as a positive person. When I wake up in the morning I always look on…
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The transition from fiance to spouse is one that no matter how well-adjusted a person you are, or how well you think you know the person you are marrying, there are always a slew of surprises noone expected. Aside from…
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Marriage is a great blending of two individuals into a relationship. The words that we speak to one another have long lasting effect on how the recipient sees his/her self portrait. Words dictate how people generate their self image. Words…
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In answering the question whether marriage can last forever, I’d immediately  say yes. Although, it seems necessary to take note at the ever rising ratio with in the counter part of marital union before standing in the affirmative aisle. As dissolution…
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Here are some inexpensive ways to make your husband happy! We all like to feel special and appreciated. You are the main source of appreciation for your spouse or sweetheart. If your spouse spends all day at a thankless job,…
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Marriage, the union of two, has been particular surprising to me this past year. That union begins with two, and within a couple of years becomes four. Next thing you know your husband wants you to quit your high paying…
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Jonathan Rauch, author of “Gay Marriage, why is it good for gays, straights and America, has written a passionate and provocative case for gay marriage as the best way to preserve and protect society’s most essential institution. Rauch describes the…
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Men, admittedly, react positively to positive reenforcement. We are like children, just watch us get sick. But in all fairness, I don’t think that men should be given an ultimatum.I have been married once before, to a good Lutheran woman…
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Is marriage really worth it? God created man and women to love each other, to have families, and to grow as people and parents. I’ve been married for almost forthy-seven years and I will honestly say, “Yes, marriage does suffer…
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The waiter came and handed us individual bills. This could be a bad ending to our anniversary dinner, but we both chuckled and I handed mine to my husband. For over fourteen years we had been experiencing confusion with restaurant…
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He loves me, he loves me not. A statement many women ponder when they reflect about the man in their life. Yet, are the words, “I love you”, spoken to us by men, enough to satisfy our own question regarding…
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Being Single or Married Life The decision to get married is one of the biggest decisions any one will ever make.  There are so many unknowns that even though couples may think that they know each other, what they know…
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In most cases, men should do housework. I can think of the rare occasion when a man has a wife who’s chosen title is housewife. She has grown children who have left the house or no children to speak of….
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That people are even still debating whether or not husbands should do housework seems to me ridiculous, almost like contemplating whether or not husbands should get up in the morning and put their pants on by themselves. What comes immediately…
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The challenges of being the second wife As I enter my autumn years, I can say without hesitation as a second wife, my life is a blessing. I have learned much over the past twenty-five “plus” years of marriage, grew…
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All right, brace yourself. I’m going to shock, possibly, half the readers here (being half the readers might be female). You ready? Here it goes: I am a husband and I believe it’s essential that we do the housework. Or at…
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No wonder she left you! I uttered this phrase at least five times the first year I worked as a laundromat attendant. Man after man came in , dropping off his dirty clothes to be washed because he didn’t know…
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Being a second wife holds many challenges that one has to surmount. The foremost challenge is to be able to move out of the hovering shadow of the first wife. Consciously or unconsciously there will always be comparisons between the…
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Longevity in marriage is a principle that seems to have lost so much ground in the last few generations. Marriage has become something that is throwaway! If it gets too hard or doesn’t go the way we had expected it…
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We have managed to obtain the right to vote, fly to the moon, even to have careers and family’s so why can’t we get our husbands to do housework? With all the progress we’ve made there are still some men…
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The best place to begin building a harmonious family is to be a harmonious couple. The parents will set the tone for the family relationships. When you show mutual respect for one another, you express your love with words and hugs. You laugh…
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In years past, a husband did not help raise the kids, clean the house, or do the shopping. Times have changed and men have finally started to realize the importance of being more help in the home. In doing this…
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There was a day, early in the Twentieth-century, before women worked outside the home, before women’s liberation, before President Wilson signed the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution (giving women the right to vote) when men felt that housework was…
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Harmonious families are built by encouraging financial independence and providing a supportive rather than manipulative societal environment for them to thrive in. Our government is failing us in this department both financially and morally. Society would promote harmonious families by…
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Housework is always there. You think you’re all caught up only to look around and see you’ve got to start it all over again. It’s a never-ending cycle of work that never really ends. The reasons why a husband should…
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