Sentences with phrase «making marriage work while»

It takes two to make a marriage flourish, and it's not unheard of for domestic violence to destroy a marriage or for one partner to be willing to make a marriage work while their spouse is off living another life and serving divorce papers.

Not exact matches

I was married to a guy I knew for quite a while and divorced without even trying to make the marriage work.

Selfishness is the main reason marriages break down, and most often statistics show it is one partner that wants a divorce while the other wants to make it work.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

But while his outstanding books on marriage, morality and spirituality gradually became known in the English - speaking world, and his series of works on the post-Conciliar Church made him a hero to committed Catholics, few knew of Dietrich's early writings against fascism and Nazism, written in German but never translated.

But we are committed to investing in our marriage in this way, and so we make it work, even if it's a shared dessert at home after our daughter goes to sleep or a walk at the park with her in a stroller while we talk.

All of which would make me sad if I weren't so excited by what Susan and I are working on — models to make marriage work better for those who want to marry while acknowledging that marriage isn't for everyone (and that's OK — who wants to get «caught up in the hoopla» a la Kim Kardashian)-- and that divorce isn't a failure.

The thought of working on my marriage while managing raging tantrums (my three - year - old, not me), a loud boy who asks four - hundred questions a day, a medical clinic and my parenting education gig, made me roll my eyes.

Making a mixed marriage work is challenging, my kudos to you, the key is to just never give up while learning to have joy in the diversity.

The Minister while responding to questions from journalists at the Abuja National Stadium on Thursday, said a committee has been set up to suggest how the marriage will be effective, promising to make the report public when the committee concludes its work.

While we celebrate couples who are bound by wedlock, we have, as a society, also come to the agreement that all marriages are inherently stifled with conflict and misunderstanding, which is why many of us strive to «make it work.»

Making a marriage work requires compromise and sacrifice, says Jim's dad, while his schmucky son tells his bride - to - be, I think you and I are a perfectly natural, normal thing.

But while the making of that movie's famous shower scene is depicted along with some other brief scenes from the film, Hitchcock focuses more on the filmmaker's marriage and obsession with his work.

Combining Action - RPG elements with Tower Defense gameplay sounds like a marriage made in heaven and while Dungeon Defenders had its execution problems on the smaller iDevices, it proved that the concept can (and for some does) really work.

While this movie illustrates the rewards of working to make a hastily entered into marriage work, there are many pitfalls families may not appreciate.

While I salute you and your wife for making the effort to put your marriage and family back together, it sounds like there is a lot of work to do before this relationship is a healthy one.

Make a list of the valuable things you get from your marriage and work on ways to keep getting them while your spouse is unable to provide them.

Stepping back and making the effort to communicate positively while working through your issues can help speed up the process of restoring a healthy marriage.

While I would normally suggest doing everything you can to try to make your marriage work before you call it quits, with the two of you living in separate states, working on putting a strained marriage back together will be difficult.

While couples counsellors might prescribe some «work» to resurrect the passion in unhappy marriages, those who continue to make each other a priority from the get - go would ideally see spending time together and caring about each other's experiences and opinions as enjoyable.

While we teach a variety of communication techniques, we often use the work of John Gottman, who wrote The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, Susan Johnson, who wrote Hold Me Tight, and Harville Hendrix, who wrote Getting the Love You Want, as part of our tool work of John Gottman, who wrote The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, Susan Johnson, who wrote Hold Me Tight, and Harville Hendrix, who wrote Getting the Love You Want, as part of our tool Work, Susan Johnson, who wrote Hold Me Tight, and Harville Hendrix, who wrote Getting the Love You Want, as part of our tool kit.

While I'm always hesitant to dig too far for an explanation into something that's working so nicely, I was curious about how such a small verbal adjustment could be making such a big difference in an already healthy marriage, so I reached out to relationship coach Adam Maynard for an expert opinion.

While I am no stranger to the resentment, disappointment, and struggles which sometimes result from saying «I do,» working as a therapist has given me insight to what makes (or doesn't make) a healthy marriage.

While it sounds like he is really trying to make your marriage work, I am not living your life.

While we have not always found working on our marriage to be an easy or pleasant process (digging up painful emotions and anger) we have always felt that we were on the right track to making our marriage not only successful, but better than most.

While marriage counseling isn't the answer for everyone, it is usually a great place to work on your marriage and make improvements over time.