Category: Marriage
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Blending Families: Straightforward Answers For a Complex Issue (Part 2)
In the previous article in this series we talked about the importance of taking time and being patient while your newly blended family adjusts. In this segment we are going to address the next major issue on the list – discipline, as it seems to be the one that causes the most issues in…
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Blending Families: Straightforward Answers For a Complex Issue (Part 1)
Being a parent is a very involved and often highly pressured situation. But remarrying another parent after a divorce, and blending two pre-existing families into one cohesive unit, can feel like rocket science by comparison. However, complex and challenging as it may be, blending two families doesn’t have to be a source of…
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Marriage Statistics – Truth is Even Scarier Than Fiction!
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.…
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Happily Ever After And Other Myths About Marriage
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)…
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Marriage versus Living Together – What Are The Facts?
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…
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His & Hers: The Differing Perspectives Of Marriage
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.…
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Does The Health of Your Marriage Affect The Health of Your Baby?
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…
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How To Handle The Fallout From Your Spouse’s Affair
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,…
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All’s Fair In Love And War – How To Fight Fairly (Part Three)
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,…
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All’s Fair In Love And War – How To Fight Fairly (Part Two)
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…