Sentences with phrase «as a couple becomes»

Fertility doctors foresee an explosion in sex - selection procedures on the horizon, as couples become accustomed to the idea that they can pay to beget children of the gender they prefer.

Spiritual growth in marriage occurs as the couple become co-creators of newness — in themselves, their children, and in broader areas and relationships.

The manner in which love is expressed may change as couples become adjusted to one another, but it seems that as long as the relationship is nurtured properly through communication and commitment, love will continue to flourish.

Discernment Counseling is a short - term (1 - 5 sessions) program designed to help you as a couple become clear and confident about a decision to either separate / divorce, or enter into couples therapy.

Also establishing a relationship as a couple becomes more difficult when you are trying to work together as parents at the same time.

«As the couple becomes more fluent in their sexual language, and safety and trust are built up, a person's hesitancy to try new things may fade,» says Wendi Dumbroff, LPC, a New Jersey - based family and couples therapist.

But as couples become closer and add new dimensions to their lives, the playfulness of sex can get lost.

Not exact matches

According to Inside Weddings, eloping — which had previously been seen simply as a way to tie the knot at the last minute — also became stylish, especially for couples who wanted a more intimate wedding.

In the interim I'd worked for a couple of magazines, but among them I had been the managing editor of the Village Voice, and I had met a man there named John Evans who started out as the classified - ad director, became the publisher.

«We tell ourselves that office spouse relationships can be professional, and feelings will remain mutual and platonic,» says Lara, «However, long working hours and having less time at home, coupled with being involved in the same projects as your work spouse, can all become too intimate emotionally.

Hall brings those values to family culture as well, working with wife Kelly Ring to «become a stronger couple that communicates well and builds alignment on common dreams, purpose, and goals.»

Coupled with greater overall monetary stability, interest rate decontrol may help appreciably to stabilise housing finance flows, especially as household sector investors have become more interest - rate sensitive.

The couple decided to become speculators, buying some of the houses on the cheap, tarting them up (the same open - plan kitchen / luxurious bathrooms as The Property Brothers, but with an OC bent: cheap surfaces that look polished and high - end).

In all likelihood, this will become more of an issue for the market as the rate increases over the next couple of years, if indeed it does.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weaknesAs usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weaknesas measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weaknesas measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

However, a couple of months after, SoftBank decided to abandon its pursuit of merging Sprint and T - Mobile, as constraints in the form of antitrust regulations have started to become hostile and insurmountable.

That has become all the more clear in the last couple of months, as a sell - off in India's currency and a gush of money out of a variety of emerging markets has shown how unstable the world financial system can be.

Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea for half a year with a couple million animals, a temple less than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7 years to complete, and then sacrificing 14 animals a minute for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude living in the belly of a fish for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»

But what happens when one of two things occurs: when the LBGT person wants to be in ministry (and therefore their conduct becomes an issue) or they bring their partner along to church and want to be accepted as a couple?

Sadly, one couple were my friends and then myself and others were quietly dropped as they became part of the royal family.

LoL The Prophet used to, as did all the Prophets before him, go spend a couple days in the cave of Hira» from time to time as we all do go out hiking & camping or to the top of a mountain for a vantage point, reflection, & peace & quiet, & to get away from it all, when it all becomes too much for us to deal with characters like you for instance LoL.

As a mixed - race couple it has become clear that there are «mixed» feeling about our presence in church.

It is sorely tempting to arbitrate over this sacred interplay, to treat it in such a way as to refuse God the opportunity to make use of His special place, to place God outside of the conjugal relationship which then becomes the couple's own territory over which they alone arbitrate.

For as soon as we try to couple them together their independence of one another becomes as evident as their interconnexion.

One of the most difficult experiences of mid-years couples is the reversal of roles, as aging parents become increasingly dependent on them — emotionally, if not physically.

Olson also invoked «fundamental rights» and was queried by Justice Scalia as to just exactly when it became unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage: 1791 with the Bill of Rights, 1868 with the 14th Amendment, or some other date, perhaps after the Court declined in 1971 to review a Minnesota Supreme Court decision upholding opposite - sex marriage requirements?

If these couples remain as parishioners, and if outsiders become members, then an unusual kind of integration takes place.

Some couples become more and more possessive as they face aging and death.

The underlying marital weakness usually does not become apparent until the center is taken away (as the children leave) and the couple must relate to each other in a «psychologically naked» way, as one such couple expressed it.

Persons of the same sex can not marry because they can not do what married couples can, i.e., consummate their union by a bodily act in which they become the common subjects of an act that, precisely as human behavior, is eminently fit both for the communication of spousal love and for the generation of new human life.

Stories abounded of hard - pressed couples for whom the «rhythm method» had failed, and Pope John XXIII's vision of openness to the world had become for many Catholics a desperate desire not to be seen as «old fashioned.»

The solution of the eternal recurrence depends essentially on Nietzsche's conception of the external, independent relation of time to becoming and willing, coupled with his notion of time as infinite and the becoming universe as finite (TSZ 178).

This, when coupled with Whitehead's theory, is highly suggestive of a developmentally - grounded diagnostic scheme, whereby the mental pole becomes increasingly important in the constitution of the dominant occasion as a person develops and matures.

I want to propose a possible solution, but as I wrote it, it became too long to publish in one blog post, so I will spread it out over the next couple days.

I was hopeful early on that we would be able to continue our life as a couple, but as his therapy progressed, Joe became certain that he had to be with a man to be whole and I became certain that I could not stay married to gay man.

About 1971, however, there was a major turn in my pilgrimage as I gradually became painfully aware of the so - called outcome studies reporting the dubious effectiveness of average psychotherapy, whose cure rates barely match spontaneous remission, coupled with the frightening spectre of client deterioration (i.e., patients finding their condition worsening under the care of professional psychotherapists).

The first couple of books start out as typical «solve - this - murder» sort of books (without being gory or cruel or gratuitous, it's more about the story and the characters)-- very satisfying Saturday night read — but as the books go forward, the layers and complex storytelling becomes even more clear and right around book three or four you begin to realise that everything is connected and everything means something and something major is unfolding and OMG MUST KEEP READING.

As marriages become more mutually fulfilling, couples begin to enjoy satisfying each other's needs; at this point they have moved to positive complementarity in the marriage.

11 Cone acknowledged that, in fact, his position is «in company with all the classic theologies of the Christian tradition,» though, of course, with a different point of departure: the plight of the oppressed.12 Biblically, he focused on the redemptive suffering of Jesus (coupled with his resurrection as a defeat of suffering) and expressed the eschatological point that God has in fact defeated the powers of evil even though we still encounter them and are called to fight against them, «becoming God's suffering servants in the world.»

Over the course of the next couple years, as you learn to live in recognition of your fear and guilt, and as you learn to trust that Jesus is leading you to where He wants, you will look back over your life and see how much more liberated and free you have become.

On what grounds should a couple decide that it would be faithful to their calling as Christians to become parents?

As indicated earlier, a vacuous marriage becomes more and more painful as the couple approaches the middle yearAs indicated earlier, a vacuous marriage becomes more and more painful as the couple approaches the middle yearas the couple approaches the middle years.

Yes Gary; Jesus is in you as your savour as He is the savour of the world: In Adam all die even so in Christ is All made alive: But I have seen in the past couple days your words and they are not my Lords at all: Christ is not divided or Bi-Polar: He does not cuss like a sailor one day and then minister to the masses the next: No; Christ is consistent, He is Grounded in His word; those that waver are not stable in anything, even as is written: I truly know now the you truly do have a mocking spirit in you, because again Christ is not Bi-polar: Go re-read you other post and see if they are the words of my Lord, then ask if anyone will be willing to follow you even as you are of Christ: The false Christ comes up along side of the truth Christ to pervert everything that is of God: That is how all these sects are again formed, many started of in the truth, but went out from the Word of our Lord even through Paul now to become their own god: You are now an example of what I speak: Thank - you Gary; In Jesus Name Alexandria:

Here is what one couple wrote for their moments of recommitment; each of them said to the other: «With expectation and joy, I commit myself to you — to the person you are and are becoming; I commit myself to responsibility for my own growth as a person; I commit myself to us — to our growing together as «forever friends.»

Following the wedding, the minister should help the couple become involved as a couple in meaningful church activities.

As same - sex marriage became legal in more and more states and then across the country, evangelicals and others with religious objections have worried about their obligations to accommodate gay and lesbian couples.

Those who are married but unable to commit as a couple or single, divorced or separated individuals who would like to be part of this apostolate are also invited to become facilitators (Adviser Coaches).

I realize this may not be clear or meaninful to some readers and I can't take the space here to go into it other than to say that a good segment of biblical scholarship for a couple decades at least, has properly broadened its pursuits in an interdisciplinary manner, into probing for better understandings of the nature and formative, growth processes of the earliest groups of Jesus followers and how they ultimately became Jewish Christian groups, or started as mixed Jewish / Gentile groups (as via Paul, et al.).

The piece left such an indelible image in the minds of the media and the public as it led network newscasts and became a staple of Jay Leno monologues and Saturday Night Live skits that it would be possible in the future to say and write and broadcast any crazy thing about the first couple and get away with it.

1) Most Americans oppose Obamacare 2) Our President had to lie to get it passed 3) So the Left is here frantically and paradoxically and hypocritically trying couple Religion and State 4) Which confirms just how desperate our government and their media lapdogs have become 5) When I refuse to define poverty you'll know I'm a marxist disguised as a «social justice» Christian (yes... we can tell) 6) Now we can get back to the name - calling and church bashing from folks with a «tolerance» bumper sticker on their car