Sentences with phrase «believe marriages work»

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this is a great post.my partner and i [do nt believe in marriage] have lived together for a couple years and are completely open about money, debt & finances.we both have separate personal and business accounts, but share an account and money.we have been open since day 1 and it works really well for us.

Those who claim otherwise are the wolves in sheep's clothing as even the Mormon's do good works (don't drink / teach no sex before marriage etc...) but they do not believe the gospel and are not saved.

Obviously, I'm a big advocate for mutual submission in marriage, as that is what I believe those biblical passages ultimately teach and this is what works best in our marriage, but more important than adopting a single household model — either patriarchal or egalitarian — is adopting the posture of Jesus Christ, who emptied himself of power and took the role of servant.

If the marriage dies sexually, then before one partner or the other can justify an extramarital affair, I believe that he or she is bound to seek outside help and to work on that sick marriage.

But I still believe there's a lot of work to do, especially when the Church tends to place a disproportionate emphasis on marriage and families.

But I have also started to see in my marriage to my own wife, that unless you believe that your relationship can get better, and work toward that goal, it will only get worse.

But be careful believing marriage is work.

Fighting what he sees as the vacuous definition of marriage as a purely private relationship of love, Blankenhorn urges readers to work toward resurrecting marriage as a public institution designed to uphold what he believes is the birthright of every child — to have a mother and a father.

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!

As they worked through this change, Jason and Alise discovered that there was much more holding their marriage together than pulling it apart, and they began to work in their faith communities to bring about a greater understanding of what the others actually believe and to bring about a better dialog between atheists and Christians.

Wesley runs through several options, including same - sex relationships (which he believes are a violation of God's design), mixed orientation marriages (which he believes may work in some cases, but probably not his own), and celibacy.

... The marriage is working quite well for us both and I believe the big winner is the fans.»

Sixty - two percent believe they bicker less with their better halves over how to raise the kids; 55 percent are glad they don't have to worry about working on their marriages, too; and 38 percent feel freer to follow their own dreams.

Most of us agree that divorce isn't something that should be entered into lightly — especially if we have young kids — but most of us believe it needs to be an option because sometimes a marriage just isn't going to work and staying together for the kids isn't healthy.

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.

«I worked alongside her in the marriage fight, and I believe she was incredibly eloquent and incredibly effective.

«In my 25 years of conflict - resolution work, I've come to believe that working on communication to fix a struggling marriage is a waste of time...

If you consider that her position is not absolutely fine, I believe it's not a big trouble as most of women, concentrating on marriage with a foreign man, are ready to shift the work position or even remain at the house as caretakers, devoting themselves to the marriage, marrried man, daughter.

Despite his marriage to Amelia Warner, many believe that Jamie Dornan and his co-star Dakota Johnson are pushing the boundaries of their work relationship.

For instance, it's shown time and again that Marlo's husband, Drew (Ron Livingston), lives in a state of exhaustion that runs parallel to his wife's, and we're supposed to believe that his fixation on work, which has driven a wedge into their marriage and sex life, would also keep him from asking any questions about the night nanny.

«I might say, parenthetically, I believe there are national security and common security aspects to the whole globalization challenge that I really don't have time to go into today, so I'll just steer off the text and say what I think briefly, which is that as we open borders and we increase the freedom of movement of people, information and ideas, this open society becomes more vulnerable to cross-national, multinational, organized forces of destruction: terrorists; weapons of mass destruction; the marriage of technology in these weapons, small - scale chemical and biological and maybe even nuclear weapons; narco traffickers and organized criminals, and increasingly, all these people sort of working together in lines that are quite blurred.

«The great majority of divorced people believe that one or the other of them could have worked much harder to save the marriage.»

We believe a healthy marriage needs work daily.

It is refreshing to read a book about marriage written by people who don't just believe in marriage but actually understand how it works.»

Without being able to name it or describe it I believe these ideas were at work in my marriage.

Most of us agree that divorce isn't something that should be entered into lightly — especially if we have young kids — but most of us believe it needs to be an option because sometimes a marriage just isn't going to work and staying together for the kids isn't healthy.

But they also believe the best chance of making a marriage work is to first establish their own identity and independence.

I am a bilingual Spanish - speaking Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who believes that therapy is a process in which I work together with my clients to make positive changes in their lives.»

Dr. John Gottman, a well - respected psychologist and marriage researcher, believes «working on your marriage every day will do more for your health and longevity than working out at a health club.»

Your husband is likely to cooperate with you to work on your marriage if he values you and believes he can help the relationship, according to relationship coach Jack Ito in «How Can I Get My Husband Back?»

Standard marriage counseling is designed for two people motivated to work on a marriage they believe is improvable.

I am, of course, a champion of trust and commitment in a marriage, and I believe they are required for making marriage work.

Believing that there was a higher power helping them didn't make these individuals feel that sense of loneliness that we would expect when someone wants to save a marriage to a spouse that does not seem nearly as committed to working things out.

Others believe that the less feeling - focused, more structured and results - oriented nature of online marriage counseling can actually be beneficial, as it provides couples with leadership and sound guidance via methods that have worked for other couples.

Though we are a society with a high divorce rate, divorce is not considered a good thing, or even a neutral event, rather, it may believe the person didn't try hard enough to make the marriage work.

For women who have traded the boardroom for the nursery but now believe their marriage may not last forever, my advice is to get back to work as soon as possible.

If your spouse did not believe that getting divorced was possible under any circumstances, s / he may never have been motivated to work on your marriage.

Some of them can't afford counseling, some simply don't believe in its benefits, but marriage therapy is proven to work and has saved lot of relationships.

Believe you can improve your marriage, and work to do so.

For your own sake, if you are the type of person who believes in the institution of marriage and never imagined yourself as part of the divorce statistics, then personal integrity would suggest you explore working through your marital problems, even if it's infidelity.

You truly believed that you and your soon to be ex-spouse agreed on all the major issues and that you could work collaboratively to end your marriage in a respectful way.

At Novus, we believe in creating emotionally intelligent relationships, where both people take an active part in building a relationship or marriage that works for both.

You may file a complaint if you believe a licensed Counselor, Social Worker or Marriage & Family Therapist has violated the law, rules or ethical standards governing the practice of social work.

As a psychologist and marriage and family therapist I believe that helping couples restore, rebuild, and reconnect with their partners pays dividends far beyond the couple - the work can influence an entire family, sometimes, for generations to come.

It seems like a silly question, but marriage counseling, much like any other type of counseling will work, only if you believe it will and if you apply yourself.

At Marriage Solutions we believe if you're going to put your relationship and money in the hands of a professional, you should know that the therapist is working from a clinical approach that has been researched, tested, and demonstrates positive results.

According to the co-founders of Divorce Solutions U, they believe in marriage, but when it does not work, women deserve to go forward to create happy lives for themselves.

I thought that if my husband was not on board it would never work, this program has taught me that it only takes one to transform a marriage and I believe it.

The question on marriage was, «How can I make my marriage work when my wife and I no longer believe the same things about the LDS Church?»

If you believe that the problems in your marriage can be resolved, then you should work toward that solution.