When we look
at marriage from the very practical standpoint of housing, financial means, budgets, debts, and inheritance, it is clear that marriage can not be reduced to an emotional attachment and a distant promise of mutual aid.
«It's almost always a good idea to slow it down and look
at the marriage from five different angles, including what your own role in it was,» says Doherty.
If only my client would step back to look
at her marriage from a different vantage point, she might be able to better appreciate her husband for who he is in their unique relationship.
Not exact matches
But now, for those blessed to be free of family constraints or serious debts, a rising
marriage age and longer career onramps can make the third decade of life seem —
from the outside
at least — like one big party.
At a Sequoia event in October, Schreier likened healthy entrepreneur - investor relationships to the equivalent of a progression
from dating to
marriage.
He's also promised to simplify the tax code for individuals and
from a cursory glance
at his new tax tables, it appears he wants to remove the
marriage penalty too.
There are countless ways to look
at the implications of Amazon's proposed $ 13.7 billion takeover of Whole Foods, that it's the latest salvo in the battle between Amazon and Walmart to be the one place where everyone shops for everything, that it's a disruption to the supply chain model in the grocery business, or that it's nothing more than a
marriage of convenience to save Whole Foods
from the ire of its activist shareholders.
Now that Softbank, and subsidiary Sprint, are no longer officially seeking T - Mobile's hand in
marriage, the fourth largest wireless carrier is back to slinging gibes
at its one - time suitor and launching a referral program to «save» friends and «framily» members
from Sprint.
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Recognition of
marriage serves the ends of limited government more effectively, less intrusively, and
at less cost than does picking up the pieces
from a shattered
marriage culture.
We will preside only
at those weddings that seek to establish a Christian
marriage in accord with the principles articulated and lived out
from the beginning of the Church's life.
If you doubt that, just look
at the startling speed with which ho.mose.xuality has gone
from a crime worthy of committal into a psychiatric ward to being accepted, and now so - called ho.mose.xual
marriage is now being legalized, and the outcasts of society are now the ones who still disaprove of this as being sinful.
from John Eastman, a constitutional law professor
at Chapman University, is chairman of the National Organization for
Marriage:
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..
I see that power
at work in pastoral care for those so alienated
from each other in faltering
marriages that the one can only recoil
from the offered hand of the other.
A lot of us are associated with groups like this, groups that,
at least in our lifetime, aren't going to move away
from traditional Christian teaching regarding human sexuality and
marriage.
In some cases, evidence of past incorrect opinion is sufficient: The CEO of the software firm Mozilla, Brendan Eich, was hounded
from his post in 2014 for a $ 1,000 contribution to a 2008 California referendum campaign against gay
marriage, evidence of a position he shared
at the time with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
• «The road
from Stonewall, June 1969, to Stonewall, June 2011, was a trajectory of greater social acceptance of difference and nonconformity,» writes National Review's deputy managing editor on the magazine's website, describing the scene the night New York approved homosexual «
marriage»
at the famous gay bar where the riot that started the homosexual rights movement began.
Age
at marriage may be a risk factor with respect to divorce, but perhaps the more valid conclusion is in the opposite direction, that high divorce rates scare couples away
from early
marriage.
And as Islamic law forbids a Muslim woman
from marrying a non-Muslim man (although it permits a Muslim man to marry a non-Muslim woman), her
marriage was not a
marriage at all in Sudan, where matters of personal and family law are controlled by religious courts.
And all of these practices —
from prayer to communion to fellowship to reading Scripture — give us glimpses of the day when that union will be realized, when we will all gather
at the
marriage supper of the Lamb.
Thanks to invitations
from Blackstone Fellows and Federalist Society chapters, I've debated
marriage at a couple dozen colleges and law schools.
The Bob Newhart Show turned that idea on its head, showing a man who was only good
at his job because of the support and wisdom he got
from his
marriage.
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).
At 22, she passionately believed the second, public world could enable spouses to keep their
marriage vows, which they brought
from private dark to communal light.
It's likely that you'll be able to rebuild some of the satisfying things you've lost
from your
marriage, if you're both willing to work
at it.»
Let's look
at this just
from the standpoint of se.x within
marriage.
«Most of the inequalities» of
marriage call for redress, Fox - Genovese admits, but she says women's rights (to property, divorce, protection
from marital rape and abuse, etc.) have come
at an «exorbitantly high price.»
Amidst the post-modern confusions, however, Australia is like the rest of the West in that the proponents of «
marriage equality» are
at the forefront of efforts to impose the dictatorship of relativism, in this instance
from Perth to Sydney and
at all points in between.
Jake and Melissa Kircher write about relationships and
marriage at www.holymessofmarriage.com and are the authors of the new book 99 Thoughts on Marriage and Ministry from Group Pub
marriage at www.holymessofmarriage.com and are the authors of the new book 99 Thoughts on
Marriage and Ministry from Group Pub
Marriage and Ministry
from Group Publishing.
In general, the cynical leaders of the backlash» as distinguished
from the true believers
at the grass roots who really do care about issues like abortion, religion, homosexual
marriage, and the rest» are often moderate cultural modernists themselves, but they are perfectly happy to reap the benefits that accrue to them
from red - state Americans losing sight of the material issues that ought to dominate their political imaginations.
So, while I am not convinced either way
at this point, I believe those who are challenging the teaching that those in second
marriages are most often, apart
from some biblical allowances, in sinful situations, may have a good point.
don't we have to stay
at it,
marriage is hard work after all, until all is resolved and everyone is singing
from the same sheet of music?
I tend to think that in itself would be rocky
at first (open and honest communication
from everyone), but you would eventually come to a much healthier place relationship-wise (think of a
marriage).
As for the conclusion of Aidan O'Neill QC, that schools will be within their statutory rights to dismiss staff who refuse to use stories or textbooks promoting same - sex
marriage and that parents who object to gay
marriage being taught to their children will have no right to withdraw their children
from lessons, does that sound
at all unlikely, given the cases of the Strasbourg four, which were considered by the European Court of Justice in September?
This presentation
from Shauna Niequist
at Q Nashville is absolutely fantastic — one of the best reflections on mutuality in
marriage and calling I've seen in years, and a lovely tribute to Shauna's mother, Lynne Hybels.
Researchers
from Aston Medical School in Birmingham looked
at more than 900,000 patients with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes and found
marriage led to higher survival rates.
I have a wonderful husband who forgave me and we love each other and our
marriage has gone
from strength to strength,
at the time i committed adultery i felt strongly that devil was controlling my behaviour it was such a powerful force and yet
at the moment i was ending the affair the Holy Spirit was overpowering and brought me back to my husband and we celebrated our 25 th wedding anniversary last year, i have always loved my husband and didn't ever consider adultery and yet my ex came back into my life and i was weak, but now i am strong and so in love with my husband and know i am forgiven.
Take a look
at ten issues
from that first year or two and you'll find essays on religious freedom, war and peace,
marriage and family, philosophical materialism, literary figures, and theological movements.
Those Catholic spouses who found
from their own experience that the Church's ban posed a serious threat to their own
marriages — and often to a mother's physical and mental health — were forced to make choices that, either way, left them embittered toward the Church, or
at least toward the hierarchy.
This is particularly true of CP's first
marriage, of which I acquired an extremely one - sided view
from a nephew who lived in the house of the couple
at the time when the
marriage was about to be ended by the husband.
Liberal Catholicism has many mansions, and depending on how the term is used, it can sweep in everything
from worldly prep schools «in the Jesuit tradition» to passionately ascetic Catholic Worker houses, everyone
from the all - but - lapsed Catholic who shows up
at Mass twice a year to the devout Catholic who attends every Sunday but felt glad for his gay nephew when the Supreme Court ruled for same - sex
marriage.
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.
Nothing in life is «perfect» but I believe if Jesus is
at the very center of two people's lives, and they are listening to Him, they will not «walk away»
from their
marriage.
We released each other
from the vows we made
at our
marriage with a blessing as we opened ourselves up to the possibility of new relationships, in which we could be whole.
Since the book draws
from the imagery of the seven sacraments — baptism, confession, communion, holy orders,
marriage, healing, and confirmation — stories that center around those experiences are much more likely to strike a chord with where I'm
at creatively with this project.
Most Un-Cool -LRB-... and not in a good way): Karen Swallow Prior
at Her.Meneutics with «An Open Letter to Donald Miller» (Unsolicited
marriage advice
from a complete strange in the form of «open letter» = not cool.
During my sabbatical
at First Things in 2009, I suggested during one editorial meeting that Christians may have to take a step or two back
from the public square, specifically citing the use of clergy as state
marriage registrars.
Nicholas Wolterstorff's recent case for same - sex
marriage, delivered as a lecture
at Neland Avenue Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids in mid-October, bears many of the virtues we've come to count on
from the Yale professor emeritus of philosophical theology: lucidity, an intuitive and easy - to - follow structure, a winsome recourse to down - to - earth illustrations, a light touch, and an obvious personal concern for real, suffering Christians.
You noticed the moment she started her internship
at your workplace that she was just wonderful, nice to chat with, attractive,
marriage material, the bearer of your progeny, and definitely the one God has sent
from on high to satisfy your deepest longing and...