Sentences with phrase «at making a marriage work»

In between, there is Cuba, where Ernest and Martha play at making their marriage work, and it is the only point at which Hemingway & Gellhorn itself feels less than fully vital.

For most people who made a good faith effort at making a marriage work, a divorce is like surviving the death of a loved one.

Not exact matches

Make hard work your favorite words, whether at work or at home or in your marriage or wherever your definition of success takes you.

At his New York Times blog, Ross Douthat has been doing a yeoman's work, making me almost regret my critique of his essay on gay marriage by offering a patient, sophisticated case for preserving the «ideal» of heterosexual marriage.

Derek says the themes on the album include battling cynicism («Everything Will Change»), coming to terms with who God made you to be («Eye of the Hurricane»), Jesus» nearness to those who are disenfranchised («Closer Than You Think»), unity among the divisions of the church («A Place at Your Table»), the hard work of marriage («The Vow»), and God's great love («Love Part 3»).

I am not saying that marriages between people of different faiths never work at all, or that simply being a «Christian» guarantees that we will make good choices in our marriage or that we will be exempt from divorce.

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 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.

It seemed like a good way to make a marriage work, switching the roles at some point.

By understanding the powerful and often conflicting forces at work as you take on fatherhood and a family, you'll increase your prospects for pulling through and coming out the other side a stronger man, with a stronger marriage, and a family that makes all your efforts and sacrifices incredibly worthwhile.

Now that I look back at their marriage, however, I see that this was the way they made it work.

Hello every body my name is Cynthia Morgan, am from United Kingdom England, I just want to share my experience with the world on how Dr iayaryi, help me, I got my love back and saved my marriage... I was married for 3 years with 1kid and we lived happily until things started getting ugly and we had fights and argued almost every time... it got worse at a point that he filed for divorce... I tried my best to make him change his mind & stay with me because I love him so much and don't want to lose him but everything just didn't work out... he moved out of the house because it was a rented apartment and still went ahead to file for divorce... I pleaded and tried everything but still nothing worked.

In his best - selling book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, John M. Gottman, Ph.D., describes «marital masters» as «folks who are so good at handling conflict that they make marital squabbles look like fun.»

I hope to do three things: first, look at the value and the challenges that immigration has brought and continues to bring to the UK; second, lay out where I think the Government is getting hold of the wrong end of the stick; and third, suggest some areas that Labour believes need to be addressed in making migration work for everyone, especially in relation to the labour market, the EU, sham marriages and the push factors in international migration.

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.

Shepard had Bell on the first episode, and listeners got an inside look at their sweeter and more difficult moments, as well as exactly what makes the duo's marriage work so well (spoiler alert: There's a story about what Bell did when Shepard's dad was sick that will make your heart melt).

In a 2016 interview with PEOPLE's Jess Cagle, she said her divorce from Marc Anthony was «the biggest disappointment of my life so far... I felt like at that time I had lost my way a little bit, of who I was in trying to make the marriage [work].»

Elena, Good response to the reporter... I don't know if the following is useful to you: I had a horrible marriage to an American woman who made my life a living hell, I worked hard to provide for her, we had a high standard of living and I worked from home, allowing her to stay at home with our children; but nothing was ever good enough for her.

I Give It a Year has a novel premise at its core, which is, «What happens when the typical rom - com couple of the funny, loveable man and the alluring, romantic woman actually try to make marriage work when they barely know each other?»

However, Gruwell's ailing marriage, disapproving father (Glenn, Training Day), and a jaded school administration prove to be daunting adversaries to her plans, and she must make a choice to continue to work overtime to provide an adequate education to her young minds, at the expense of her personal life and possibly her future career.

The links between marriage, battery, sexual harassment, rape, prostitution and sexual humiliation in the home, at work, in pornography, in brothels and in the streets, must be made in order to fully grasp the unequal treatment of women by society and thus the law.

BLUF: at the end of the day, after hours of work, like you said, ``... helping people make the best choice for a huge investment» such as marriage is just as detrimental as having a transmission replaced when it will cost more than the car.

(which BTW, we laid the groundwork for, as the generation before us laid the groundwork for Gen Xers) But the similarity you have with other generations when looking at Gen X is that you greatly underestimate us and the value we contribute — and that's okay — getting it from both ends and not being able to depend on the «insitutional systems» (like family, marriage, or work) for support like the generation before or after us has made us VERY strong.

Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown presents key examples of Frankenthaler's work, beginning with those made in that first summer at Hofmann's studio school, but focusing on the period from the late 1950s through 1969, shortly before her marriage to Motherwell ended.

The resolution implied that man - made climate change was responsible for impacts on global women, stating «food insecure women with limited socioeconomic resources may be vulnerable to situations such as sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage that put them at risk for HIV, STIs, unplanned pregnancy, and poor reproductive health.»

And here's some more value that we bring to the table: you can edit your Prenuptial Agreement or Marriage Contract for a set period of time afterwards for FREE, you can read a comprehensive and regularly updated eBook about Prenuptial Agreements and Marriage Contracts in Ontario (to better understand your legal rights and entitlements and how Prenuptial Agreements and Marriage Contracts work and what they're all about), and you can read the mandatory signing instructions at the end to make sure that enter into the Prenuptial Agreement or Marriage Contract properly.

We are, by no means, perfect at this but we do keep working at these sound principles that make the Better Marriages program so valuable.

This workshop — for couples at any stage of relationship, married or not — is based on The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman, PhD.

Couple friends can also provide insight and ideas about what makes a marriage work (or doesn't), and they can offer emotional support, says Kathleen Deal, PhD, professor emerita at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and author of Two Plus Two: Couples and Their Couple Friendshwork (or doesn't), and they can offer emotional support, says Kathleen Deal, PhD, professor emerita at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and author of Two Plus Two: Couples and Their Couple FriendshWork and author of Two Plus Two: Couples and Their Couple Friendships.

At some point in your marriage, there is a high probability you will reach a point where temptation hits at the exact same moment you feel you have worked hard to make money your spouse takes for granted, worked hard to care for a mate too ill to meet your sexual needs, worked hard to stretch a dollar year after year for a partner who won't even buy you a bunch of flowers on your anniversarAt some point in your marriage, there is a high probability you will reach a point where temptation hits at the exact same moment you feel you have worked hard to make money your spouse takes for granted, worked hard to care for a mate too ill to meet your sexual needs, worked hard to stretch a dollar year after year for a partner who won't even buy you a bunch of flowers on your anniversarat the exact same moment you feel you have worked hard to make money your spouse takes for granted, worked hard to care for a mate too ill to meet your sexual needs, worked hard to stretch a dollar year after year for a partner who won't even buy you a bunch of flowers on your anniversary.

Regardless of the manner in which you choose to air your differences, having a ratio of 5 - to - 1 where the positive feelings and actions outweigh the negative generally results in a satisfying marriage, according to John Gottman, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington, and his co-author Nan Silver in the «Psychology Today» article «What Makes Marriage Workmarriage, according to John Gottman, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington, and his co-author Nan Silver in the «Psychology Today» article «What Makes Marriage WorkMarriage Work?»

I stopped going and we decided to make it work - once again - for a short wile it was great - then again pornography got in a way - and a major distance — we would spend evenings without talking at all - It is very lonely marriage for me - but I do beleave in the commitment and the fact that everything is possible if both people are willing to work to make it - I know I do - and he knows I do.

If she is not on board, making your marriage work will at best be ah uphill battle.

Look for common ground instead of focusing on complaints, suggests John Gottman, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington, in his book «The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.»

His depression was a defense mechanism in the sense that it protected him from looking at his own subjective agency in choosing whether or not to make his marriage work.

Dr. John Gottman, marriage researcher and author of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, found the happiest couples responded to their partner's attempts at conversation and connection 86 % of tmarriage researcher and author of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, found the happiest couples responded to their partner's attempts at conversation and connection 86 % of tMarriage Work, found the happiest couples responded to their partner's attempts at conversation and connection 86 % of the time.

In The Seven Principles That Make Marriage Work, Dr. Gottman has a list of repair attempts that may feel unnatural at first but provide you the vocabulary to naturally repair conflict before it harms your mMarriage Work, Dr. Gottman has a list of repair attempts that may feel unnatural at first but provide you the vocabulary to naturally repair conflict before it harms your marriagemarriage.

In his best - selling book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, John M. Gottman, Ph.D., describes «marital masters» as «folks who are so good at handling conflict that they make marital squabbles look like fun.»

I am guessing you are wanting to make some changes in how your marriage or relationship is functioning, to reconnect or to work through troubling issues that you haven't been successful at getting through on your own.

She regularly speaks at Hope Lutheran Church and guides the «Principles for Making Marriage Work» for which she is a certified educator.

And when you're ready to learn more about the research that informs these methods of connection, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work will give you detailed information about how Dr. Gottman arrived at his conclusions.

«Gottman and Silver (coauthors of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work) bring the quantitative, physiological metrics - based methods pioneered in Gottman's «Love Lab» at the University of Washington to the topics of trust, betrayal, and infidelity.

In The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, Dr. Gottman describes a study in which couples were observed at home, noting that «happily married couples noticed almost all of the positive things the researchers observed their partners do for them... unhappily married couples underestimated their partners» loving intentions by 50 percent!»

In his best - selling book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, John M. Gottman, Ph.D., describes «marital masters» as «folks who are so good at handling conflict that they make marital squabbles look like fun.»

It's time to take a good look at marriage and understand what it really takes to make this type of partnership work.

We were featured by Oprah.com, Dr. John Gottman spoke to a sold out crowd at Town Hall Seattle, and the revised edition of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work reached # 2 Best Seller in Marriage on Amazon.com in its first week.

In his best selling book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, John M. Gottman, Ph.D., describes «marital masters» as «folks who are so good at handling conflict that they make marital squabbles look like fun.»

Under no - fault, spouses have grounds for divorce when they agree that they can no longer make their marriage work, yet neither spouse is at fault for this breakdown.

Coupled with Diane's organization of the event (I found out less than a week before and she helped me figure out how to get there and make it work, and I was living in MD with a deployed military spouse and our 1 year old son at the time), your internet mission for Power of Two, Dr. John Gray's explanation of hormones / physiology on how we cope with stress differently, and Active Relationships Life and Resiliency Skills Training... I started up my own business to do marriage education.

As an experienced couples counselor and expert in his community, James shared his thoughts on the fundamental necessities in making a marriage work and the toxic pitfalls that couples have to avoid at all costs!