Sentences with phrase «even good marriages»

Even good marriages generally have some room for improvement, so enrichment seminars and retreats are often helpful.

Even the best marriages will get stuck in too much distance or too much intensity and blame.

My Save My Marriage Today system will strip back the lies you have been told and teach you fundamental values, communication, and relationship skills that will not only bring your marriage back from the brink of divorce, but will give you a solid foundation from which to build an even better marriage and future that will GUARANTEE you will never face the searing, body - numbing pain of a marriage crisis or breakup ever again.

Three of the liberated women found shelter with relatives, but the other nine were delivered to Wittenberg, where Luther worked to find housing, and even better marriages, for them.

We have known for decades that even the best marriage preparation is not enough to adequately prepare couples for the reality of marriage beyond the wedding ceremony.

Not exact matches

As for gay people — the only thing you think they are destroying is the sanctity of marriage — and they don't even need to be involved in that conversation — straight people are doing a good enough job in that department (50 % divorce rate)... marriage is taking a hit in the respectability department... but it's not because of gay people.

I once found a old book that said gay marriage was good for the soul, it had a lot of outdated infromation in it and im not even sure who wrote it.

Even late in the 20th Century, fundamentalist inst / itutions still opposed miscegenation «Although there is no verse in the Bible that dogmatically says that races should not intermarry, the whole plan of God as He has dealt with the races down through the ages indicates that interracial marriage is not best for man.»

«He who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better» (1 Corinthians 7:38).

Those who claim otherwise are the wolves in sheep's clothing as even the Mormon's do good works (don't drink / teach no sex before marriage etc...) but they do not believe the gospel and are not saved.

I've had conversation after conversation after conversation with women who struggled with their sexuality even after getting married — even though the marital bed was sanctioned and holy and they were with a good man, many women I know struggled with wanting sex, struggled with not feeling dirty for wanting it, struggled with being able to have a healthy sexuality within marriage.

Often the fact that someone related by blood or marriage still cares is the only thing in life to which a patient clings — and this holds good even if he displays apparent indifference or antagonism to anyone and everyone.

Those who know from within what marriage may demand are often unimpressed with the claim of the celibate that his way of life is renunciation for the service of the higher good, even when it is conceded to be innocent altogether of any unconscious homosexuality.

Of course, even simply scientifically, we know that there are millions of egalitarian marriages that «work» very well.

If your marriage is like mine, this means that the complementary differences between you and your spouse often fall into gender stereotypes (I am more emotional; Dan is more even - keeled), but not always (Dan is better at nurturing relationships than I am; I am more competitive).

He rooted this realism in the writings of St. Augustine on the observable presence of sin wherever men live and act — even in the courts of law, even in marriage, to name two of the better human institutions.

If the need - satisfaction path to greater intimacy is to be a useful one to a couple, it is important for them to recognize that some needs can not and should not be satisfied, even in the best marriage.

Yet Gregory does not deprecate marriage, he even echoes Paul's dictum: «Better be married than burn with vain desire» (1 Cor.

Within most Christian communions, for example — even those which do not view marriage as a sacrament — there remains an idealism about marriage and a feeling that second marriages are never quite as good as first ones.

By the Parable of the Good Samaritan, we see race, religion, and even marriages as minor doctrines — but we see love in action as the major emphasis.

She tells us to simply relax and accept the disestablishment of marriage while asking law and government to stand ready to pick up the pieces for children, women and even men as best they can.

Yet in Marriage: A History, Coontz identifies promoting good marriages as a worthy goal, even though she opposes social policy that would enforce this goal and exclude same - sex couples.

Man... healthcare reform, a black man in the Oval Office... twice, a trouncing in the last election that momentarily shattered their alternative reality bubble, the striking down of DOMA and more states legalizing gay marriage, whites soon to be less than 50 % of the US's population, and now even the Pope is calling bullsh!t on their philosophy... it's like every conservative nightmare is becoming reality, and we'll be better off because of it.

Two astute observers of contemporary marriage conclude: «It can be a good marriage even if the partners don't find heaven in bed.»

One of Wallerstein's surprising and encouraging findings was that even people who had suffered terrible abuse or neglect in childhood could still form happy and satisfying «rescue» marriages — marriages that healed the hurts of the past and enabled people to raise their children lovingly and well.

God defined marriage, eh??? — Well... even if you believe iin the imaginary being... the «Bible» was written by men over many years... in some cases we aren't really sure who even wrote the books that were chosen to be in it (there were a bunch of writings not included)...

They enable one to cheat in marriage, or on examinations, or in business, or on income taxes, all the while appearing to be a decent, patriotic, even God - fearing person who, like all sensible people, wants only his share of the good things of life and would never do any harm to anybody.

their [bodily] sexual union therefore can actualize and allow them to experience their real common good — their marriage... as an intelligible common good even if, independently of the spouses» will, their capacity for biological parenthood will not be fulfilled by that act of genital union.»

Hooper concurs and even holds — contrary, I think, to the best evidence — that Lewis's later marriage was never consummated.

Adultery does come with consequences you're right because it nearly destroyed my marriage my husband, me as a Christian and as a person who has suffered anxiety and panic disorder all my life, but even that is being dealt with now and both me and my husband believe this is the glory of God turning a bad situation round for his glory as our marriage is better than it ever was and my health has improved, Jesus forgives.

Cheerleaders do a good job of praising you for the win and encouraging you even when you lose, but marriage takes a little more than that.

Instead, a lot of us struggle with feelings of worthlessness, impurity, and shame, even well into our adult lives and our marriages.

Is America now more morally sensitive, more well structured in its laws and practices insofar as it accepts publicly avowed homosexual behavior; constructs laws that protect homosexuals from the criminal penalties formally attached to homosexual acts; and allows for civil unions or even gay marriages?

I wondered if you two feel that pressure to always be the best marriage in your church, the happiest, the glowiest, the everything - is - wonderful - even - when - it's - not «example.»

Because of their obedience to God, because they have sown in tears and joy, I am reaping that harvest of love and faithfulness, of a good marriage, of faith, of questioning, and of knowing even seemingly mundane things like how to breastfeed and fight fair.

Even in the best of human institutions, of which marriage can serve as a supreme example, there can be damage when somehow the intention to share life fully is absent.

As soon as your daughter's belief in fairies and leprechauns starts becoming a threat to women's reproductive rights, people's marriage rights, separation of church and state, and even the environment we live in, then we'll start caring about her idiotic beliefs as well.

A break in one connection, such as attachment to a stable community, puts pressure on other connections: marriage, the relationship between parents and children, religious affiliation, a feeling of connection with the past, even citizenship, that sense of membership in a large community which grows best when it is grounded in membership in a small one.

Well Doogie, even if SCOTUS doesn't come around this early, the momentum is obviously in favor — as I am sure we will see more and more states join the ranks of those that have already adopted gay marriage.

Teachers say that many non-Christians think a Christian education better prepares them for the world of urban life, international economics, love marriages and democratic political life than the available alternatives, even if they do not want to convert.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

Even for those women who enthusiastically embrace marriage and motherhood... a substantial part of their lives is without a husband and / or children... Furthermore, the traditional message to women is tenuous at best — all it takes is a single tragic phone call for her to be dropped from that demographic.

What I'm saying in all this is that even though we go through times of strain in our marriage because of deconstruction, we behave as though it is transitory, a passing storm, and that we will weather it and come out of the other side better and stronger.

But even then, the acceptance of children outside of marriage comes with a caveat: in this case, the most resourced assure everyone else that all family forms are valid, children are resilient, and can thrive just as well in single - parent families as in married families» and then turn around and admonish their children that they should never, never have children outside of marriage.

Even well - mated partners in marriage know that if they look upon each other as «someone who can provide me with the setting I need for beauty,» something goes wrong and sex becomes «routine.»

The sexual revolution we really need will be built, then, on a better sense of what happens even in marriage if sex is to remain creative.

Even though legitimate sexual activity can not be limited to marriage, Russell thinks that under certain conditions marriage can be the «best and most important relation that can exist between two human beings» (p. 143).

But even if I didn't, even if I believed same - sex marriage was a sin, I could never, in good conscience, throw my support behind a law that would put my gay and lesbian neighbors behind bars for being gay or allow businesses free range to discriminate against them because of their orientation.

If you were happily married and that marriage led to an increased sense of well - being, would you want to know if your spouse was cheating on you, even if that knowledge would make you less happy and act in perhaps unhealthy ways?

He condemns ho - mos - exuality even though it is a natural practice (feel free to disagree all you want, but that argument will go nowhere), and his idea of a good marriage is a 13 year old girl being given to a 40 year old man as payment for a land deal, with her bloody sheets being used as a receipt of a good deal, and if she isn't a vir - gin (she could have been ra - ped, or her hy - men could have burst while riding a horse or something) she is to be stoned to death on her parent's doorstep.