Sentences with phrase «demands of a new marriage»

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Critics further insist that terms like «commitment,» «vulnerability,» and «care» as used by the new reformers are, when compared to the vows demanded in the marriage rite, both extraordinarily limited in their content and vague in respect to the matter of duration.

This involves expressing his love and respect for her, creating opportunities for continued sharing on as many levels as feasible in light of the new demands of parenthood, encouraging her to maintain at least one satisfying interest outside the home and the marriage, and taking over the parenting role regularly to give his wife a «chance to come up for air,» as one young mother put it.

The playwright and activist turns 80 on Thursday and neither recent illness nor the glow of a new marriage has softened the urgency of his demands.

Tom Duane, the only openly gay New York state senator, says that Ruben Diaz Sr. is being «a little bit of a bully» by demanding that Democrats swear to him in writing that they won't try to pass a gay - marriage bill.

The two cozy up while in New York attending their son's graduation from college, and they take this one night stand back home as Jake begins to miss all of the reasons he fell in love with her all over again, now stuck in a marriage with the gorgeous but demanding Agness (Bell, What Happens in Vegas).

In reality, the government is most likely to study whether there is any real demand for the opening up of civil partnerships to opposite sex couples or whether, in the alternative, civil partnerships should be closed to new entrants as was done in the Republic of Ireland after they enacted same sex marriage after their historic referendum.

Very often, the monotony of daily living, which is a fact of life, includes the demanding management of unfinished business from the first marriage, for example, when a new husband stumbles in his perhaps unsought role of stepfather to his second wife's children, or when a mother finds herself in a tug of war between her children from the first failed marriage and the expectations of her new husband.

While the following principles are not a formal or comprehensive attempt to capture all of the actions that public and private institutions could undertake, they offer a framework of recommendations [23] that, if implemented, would eliminate pervasive biases against marriage without placing significant new demands on the public purse.

In second marriages, the climb becomes even steeper when a spouse finds himself caught, for example, between the financial demands of a former wife, who is the custodial mother of his children, and his new wife, who believes the first wife is just being greedy.