Sentences with phrase «at divorce as»

If we look at divorce as just being another step or stage in our life cycle, then we can view it as just another process in our aging.

In this didactic and experiential workshop attendees will look at divorce as a developmental crossroad; a moment of tension between past and future with transformative potential.

One that can set the tone and ensure that both parties will look at divorce as a distant and unlikely scenario?

For these reasons and so many others, it's best to not look at divorce as an answer to a hurting marriage; to instead seek out other solutions to divorce.

If we only look at divorce as the measure of success or failure in a relationship, then we would declare a 2 year marriage and a 42 year marriage to both be failures if they end in divorce.

Not exact matches

That financier's soon - to - be ex-wife at the time found his diary, which was filled with writings about encounters with Wood, who was soon - to - be divorced as well.

As Hitched.com editor Steve Cooper put it in a rebuttal to the Facebook divorce stories, this has been the case since the times of our caveman friend Blaaarggg: «I'm sure at some point during the Stone Age a woman was frustrated because her mate wouldn't step away from the fire and come to bed.

So at least once a year, or in the event of a major change in your life — such as the birth of a child, divorce, inheritance, retirement, or job change — you should sit down and revisit your investment plan.

The fact that these records are gathered without the government having any reasonable suspicion or probable cause justifying the seizure of data is so divorced from the domain of reason as to be incapable of ever being made lawful at all, and this view was endorsed as recently as today by the federal government's Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight board.

33 — Divorced deeply troubled woman — stupidly agreed to $ 1600 / month in child support (son was 9 at time); should have fought this as this was based on old income and not what I was really making.

I am aware that Jesus said you could divorce as long as at least one of you had already commited adultery.

But at that time I had been married for seventeen years, and as a Protestant I had already asked God to forgive me for the divorce.

he IS grasping at straws since the singel parent thing wasnt an issue... secondly... you apparently need to go to school and learn that there IS a difference between a woman and a man and that children benefit from BOTH... and hwo a man loves a woman as nature intended... its people like you who are reason for high divorce rates in USA, because they don tknow what love or marriage is..

Their integrity has been undermined by the easier forms of divorce at the same time as there has been a spread in the practice of cohabitation between men and women without the legal form of marriage.

The loose use of evangelicalalso results in frequent headlines declaring that evangelicals divorce, engage in extramarital sex and do other un-evangelical things at more or less the same rates as the general population.

... The Jews (just like the church now) got flippant concerning divorce... I feel Jesus didn't have to mention homosexuality because the Law was clear to any Jew at that time... Paul had to mention it because he was an apostle to the Gentiles who I think were more prone to homosexuality behavior... I'm though not as learned as you... just my thought after 15 years of thinking about this issue... The church has a sacred duty to all... even gays... we need a unified loving answer to give them... but it must be the truth... because only the truth can set us free...

Thomas More, who is beheaded at the end of Wolf Hall, famously opposed Henry's divorce, remarriage, and presumptive title as Head of the Church in England.

We must admit to the hypocrisy of condemning divorce while at the same time condoning as «marriage» a relationship that is little more than a cynical armistice, a mutual state of boredom, an arrangement of legalized prostitution, or an excuse for the continued subjugation of women.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

Some may have chosen a life of difficulty and waywardness to help others seek more clearly - as some who go through painful divorces allow others to see how working at marriage is prefereable.

As much as we might like to at times, we can't divorce our inner, individual spiritual lives from our outer, communal material liveAs much as we might like to at times, we can't divorce our inner, individual spiritual lives from our outer, communal material liveas we might like to at times, we can't divorce our inner, individual spiritual lives from our outer, communal material lives.

As one priest told the Board, «It's like being divorced by your wife, fired from your job, and evicted from your home all at once.»

If you're going to divorce yourself an exterior moral source at least have the brass to go the full route and say there's no such thing as right and wrong.

Instead of acting as apologists for the divorce culture, West and Hewlett propose a Parents» Bill of Rights, a kind of work in progress outlined at the end of the book and on flyers abundantly distributed during their book tour.

No other generation has seen — or felt — the firsthand impact of divorce as much as millennials: Boomers divorced at unprecedented rates starting in the 1980s and «90s.

They might be further upset to read how Jane Schaberg, professor of religious studies at the University of Detroit Mercy, interprets Christ's injunction against divorce as an open invitation for men to beat their wives; «Interpreted in this rigid fashion,» she writes, «this prohibition bas... condemned women and men to the alternative of an intolerable bondage or a life of isolation and sexual repression.»

Marriage is rough... period but if you lean on God at all times including the good and the bad then He (God) will get you both through anything in your marriage... TOGETHER... not divorced as our ME FIRST culture is now all about.

The sexual integrity of women is upheld in the discussions of lust (Mt. 5:27 - 30) and divorce (Mt. 19:3 - 9), and the inclusion of sexually immoral women in the Kingdom is noted for the preaching of both John the Baptist and Jesus (Mt. 21:31 - 32).41» The mention of four women from Old Testament as ancestors of Jesus; the healing of the Cannanite woman's daughter (15:21 - 28); the parable of the ten virgins (25:1 - 13); the anointing at Bethany (26:6 - 13); and the women at resurrection of Jesus (28:1 - 10) all obviously shows Matthaean interest on women and the concept of «Universalism».42

The cultural changes that Fuchs and Reklis have in mind are increasing individualism, growing preoccupation with individual fulfillment, wider tolerance for divorce as a solution to marital problems, and more general acceptance at all social levels of the high rates of out - of - wedlock births and single parenthood.

Chair of the Accord Coalition, Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, said: «Accord is regularly made aware of qualified teachers who are excluded from jobs at faith schools, including serving members of staff who are forced to leave their post for behaviour deemed to go against a school's religious tenants, such as for seeking a divorce.

People are as free to ignore the verses from Matthew as they are to ignore the verses on divorce in Mark, but let us at least acknowledge that the words exist, out of respect for Christ Jesus, the Word Incarnate, whose every syllable is meant for our good.

It has also been used to great advantage in singles groups, divorce recovery groups, young people's groups, parents groups, marriage enrichment groups, pre-marriage groups, marriage counseling groups, therapy groups of women and men, professional conferences, and as a demonstration at any workshop or conference on human liberation.

In fact, Bultmann is at pains to divorce what he calls the historicity of the cross from the crucifixion of Jesus as an event in the past: «The real meaning of the cross is that it has created a new and permanent situation in history.

As for the integrity of family life on a monogamous basis, Malachi's protest against divorce bears eloquent testimony to Israel's developing conscience: «And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand.

Under no circumstances will the King be free to divorce the Queen to whom he is married, the wife of his deceased brother, and thus make the mother as well as the daughter into incestuous women... Before I would approve of such a divorce I would rather permit the King to marry a second woman and to have, according to the examples of the patriarchs and kings, two wives or queens at the same time.»

In each section, we will look at the value of these rights from a humanitarian perspective, and then how the right can be misused and abused when divorced from God and the Gospel, and how churches are guilty of this as well.

Partly because of the growing acceptance, individualization and even romanticization of a «divorce culture» in America, approximately half of all first marriages — and at least as many second ones — do not endure.

And he repeatedly calls into question the «family values» hype that seems to sustain the GOP: «Conservatives are divorcing at the same rate as liberals.»

Margaret, who had divorced Henry's father, Jeremiah, years before, worked a late - night shift as a registered nurse to hold the family together, and because she could not rule her kids the way she liked, it was successfully argued that Henry's reckless energy might be more safely harnessed at football practice.

Every break - up from school yard fights to divorce to WWII... and seem to have a similar start of unnecessary, clearly avoidable «miscommunication» In whose universe with so much at state financially, etc... two sides couldn't communication as mature human beings.

O'Hara apparently told the mother - of - two that he was divorced as he seduced her over cocktails at sunset.

But as research indicates, childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, despite numerous studies that indicate marital happiness plummets in the first year or two after the birth of a child and sometimes never quite recoups.

I will try to find a husband,» she told the divorce judge when he asked her if she planned to get a job (but stated later online that it was a joke: «I joked that since I am great at being a wife and mother, and if that's my main skill, as they define it, then perhaps I could look into being a wife again, if they so insist!»)

All dads — whether stay - at - home, single, co-parenting or full - custody divorced dads — are likely to hear comments rife with judgment, such as, «Are you babysitting today?»

You said: My comment above on FB was prompted by friends whose kid is SO entirely dependent on his parents to sleep at night, that he is depriving them of their couple time and their desperately needed sleep, and as a result, they are constantly frustrated, at odds with each other, and left feeling helpless and misunderstood and «joke» about divorce.

Cohabitation still isn't as respected as marriage is (at least in the States — I'll be writing about cohabitation elsewhere soon), but if it were, would marriage still matter; single people are still stigmatized, divorced people are damaged and few of us are relationship anarchists.

So where to from here, I feel at our stage divorce is less of an option, for financial reasons, so we just live under the same roof as we always have done.

Two years ago, M. Christian Green, a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University and a former lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, wrote that divorce doesn't just affect a couple and their immediate family — friends, neighbors and entire communities are impacted as well.

As Astro and Danielle Teller write in their book Sacred Cows: The Truth About Divorce and Marriage, «the narrative is, true love, if it exists at all, by definition exists with the person you said «I do» to.

After all, there are many high - earning women who have married men who don't make as much as they do, such as Bethenny Frankel, worth $ 22 million at the time she divorced former hubby Jason Hoppy, worth $ 475,000.