In the words of Mark Twain, “Truth is scarier than fiction,” and in the case of marriage today, this quote certainly applies. It’s common knowledge that the divorce rate has been slowly rising for years, but that is only one of several surprising and rather disheartening facts about marriage in this day and age.…

  In almost every Disney movie, whose plot centers around a beautiful princess falling madly in love with a prince she met only moments before, the entire movie tends to deal with the events that lead up to the wedding day. After a few magical sing-a-longs (usually accompanied by blue-birds and mice in tiny clothing)…

  With divorce rates rising at an alarming rate, and statistics for the success of second marriage so disheartening, is it any wonder than more and more couples are choosing to forgo tying the knot in favor of simply living together?  After all, with the prospect of a messy and possibly expensive divorce on the…

  In 1972, sociologist Jesse Shirley Bernard put forward the theory that within each marriage there are two separate marriages – the husband’s marriage and the wife’s marriage, and that the husband’s marriage is invariably better than his wife’s. These were controversial claims at the time that they were made, and met with much resistance.…

  Most couples, when planning for a future with children, spend a great deal of time preparing for sleepless nights, dirty diapers, and toys underfoot. They read up on the safest car seats, the latest crib designs, and investigate pediatricians with more thoroughness than an online data-miner. But the one aspect of their future family…

  There are few things more awful for a married individual, than discovering that their spouse was cheating on them. However, once the affair has been exposed the biggest issue is going to be deciding how to deal with the fall-out. Do you get divorced or try to make it work? If you stay together,…

  In the first and second sections of this series on fighting the right way in your marriage, we looked at the first five items on our list of ways to make fighting a constructive process, instead of a destructive one. Marital fighting is normal, and can even be healthy for a relationship. The difference,…

  In the previous segment we talked about the importance of fighting in a productive way that is the least harmful to your marriage. If you didn’t read it, and aren’t sure why a marriage needs “fighting rules” in order to avoid divorce, we suggest you go back and read this. We discussed the first…

  In the previous two part series on things people wished they had known before getting divorced, one of the things we mentioned was fighting. Fighting is often viewed as the cause of a failed relationship, but as we pointed out, it isn’t fighting that makes marriages fail, it’s how you fight that matters. So…

  In this two part series we are looking at some of the more common reasons people’s marriages end up in divorce court. Often it’s issues that start small and seem to be ordinary, everyday problems. But like so many things in life, if you don’t deal with them, they become major problems. Problems that…