Tag: Marriage in Michigan
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Planning To Marry Your Affair Partner? Not a Good Idea! (Part 3)
Thank you for joining us again for this four part series on why affair partners often make for poor spousal choices. We get it – it seems so obvious! You have such a good time together and you seem such like a great match. Why wouldn’t it be a match made in heaven? Well,…
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Planning To Marry Your Affair Partner? Not a Good Idea! (Part 1)
Why do people have affairs? Ask that question and the answers you’ll get will probably be more varied than pebbles on the Michigan shoreline. Some will tell you it’s the thrill of doing something illicit, others will argue for the need to be loved in a loveless marriage, while there are those who will…
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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…
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All’s Fair In Love And War – How To Fight Fairly (Part One)
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…
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10 Warning Signs Your Marriage May Fail (Part Two)
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…
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Don’t Become Another Divorce Statistic (Part Two)
In the first article in this two part series on avoiding divorce in your second marriage, we looked at the first three items on our list. Don’t remember them? Here’s a quick refresher: In order to avoid becoming another divorce statistic you and your spouse should 1) Make time to be together, 2) Focus…
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Don’t Become Another Divorce Statistic (Part One)
The idea that you could get marriage help from your divorce attorney may seem strange, but in truth, there is no better place. After all, we have talked to thousands of couples over the years whose marriages have failed, and we have noticed certain common themes along the way. For example, couples whose…
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Helping Your Spouse Through A Midlife Crisis
A midlife crisis, as it is commonly understood, is a major shift in how a person perceives and reacts to the world around them. This usually occurs anywhere from one’s late thirties to early fifties. It tends to be brought on by major events in life, like the death of a parent, or a milestone…