Sentences with phrase «early marriage couples»

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So, extricating oneself from another couple's failing marriage early on when they've asked us to help them doesn't seem like the right decision for someone who I know lives a Kingdom life.

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.

Based on her experiences in counseling with young married couples, Miriam Jolesch summarizes the developmental tasks of early marriage:

For couples in the early stages of marriage, it is reassuring to know that a marriage, like Rome, isn't built in a day.

During the early years of marriage, with or without children, a couple faces its most difficult developmental task.

Throughout the early months and years of marriage, it is important for couples to exercise the virtue of patience with each other, recognizing that growth takes time and struggle and living together.

As indicated earlier, a vacuous marriage becomes more and more painful as the couple approaches the middle years.

A couple which is deprived of the cohesion of shared religion in their early marriage should not give up.

One couple in their forties agreed: «We've changed radically in our theological ideas, since the early days of our marriage.

In fact, I've known more than one Christian couple to break up early in their marriage because of major sexual repression issues that stemmed from the guilt associated with sex.

The couples married in a Christian marriage would be doing what they have always been doing since the earliest days of the Church: entering into the «holy estate» of matrimony, the physical and spiritual union created by God upon the making of a public covenant by the bride and groom through their vows.

As the study notes, «Without the institutionalized rules of marriage, cohabiting couples may perceive threats to their relationship earlier than married couples.»

She has also taught in the Early Childhood Program at Oak Grove School and currently sees individuals and couples as a Marriage and Family Therapy intern at Community Counseling and Education Center in Santa Barbara where she recently completed Parent - Infant Coach Certification.

Earlier this month, Nebraska State Senator Tony Fulton (R) introduced a bill that would give judges the option to send married couples with minor children to marriage counseling before granting a divorce and require marriage counseling in divorce actions where no minor children are involved and where one spouse believes the marriage should be saved.

The early leader in the state pro-marriage movement, Louisiana set off a national debate in August 1997 by enacting a law that permits «covenant marriages, «26 whereby couples promise to stay married for life and renounce their legal right to a no - fault divorce.

McGuire's group earlier this year launched a «Courage Fund» to benefit town clerks who refused to sign marriage licenses for gay couples.

Earlier this month, a town clerk in tiny Volney, Oswego County, said she could not provide marriage certificates to same - sex couples.

In contrast to their failed drive for a marriage bill two years ago, the advocates envision a short, disciplined and intense run - up to a vote in the State Legislature, raising the prospect that gay couples may be allowed to wed in New York by early summer.

Proposal 8 was put on the ballot in response to a decision in May by the California Supreme Court, which ordered the state to begin processing marriage licenses for same - sex couples... Advocates of same - sex marriage in New York have found a loyal supporter in Mr. Paterson, who directed all state agencies earlier this year to recognize marriages between homosexual couples that were performed outside the state.»

The study, involving 174 couples, is the first long - term investigation to compare different types of early marriage intervention programs.

Many couples report they are happier by their 35th anniversary than they were in the early years of their marriage.

Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton deliver remarkably nuanced performances in Loving, a late»50s / early «60s - set true life story of a mixed race couple who's illegal marriage became a landmark case in the United States supreme court.

His latest started on a higher rung, but still ascended: early concerns about an overly pat single - couple divide gradually evaporated, as savage supporting turns from Imelda Staunton and David Bradley tie knots in what might seem a placid endorsement of marriage.

We just mentioned The Girl on the Train earlier today when talking about the Liam Neeson movie The Commuter — Girl is based on the novel of the same name by Paula Hawkins, and follows a woman whose problems haunt her after she is pulled into a mystery involving a couple that she imagines to enjoy the perfect marriage.

America's oldest interracial couple, Edith (age 96) and Eddie (age 95), face challenges early in their marriage as fate tries to tear them apart.

One early September afternoon, Yosef and Mariam, young Ethiopian immigrants who have spent all but their first year of marriage apart, set off on a road trip from their new home in Peoria, Illinois, to Nashville, Tennessee, in search of a new identity as an American couple.

An earlier Supreme Court ruling that partly invalidated 1996's Defense of Marriage Act prompted the tax agency to decide that same - sex couples married in any U.S. or foreign jurisdiction that recognized gay marriage could file tax returns Marriage Act prompted the tax agency to decide that same - sex couples married in any U.S. or foreign jurisdiction that recognized gay marriage could file tax returns marriage could file tax returns jointly.

Like so many young couples, my wife and I adopted Maxy early in our marriage, sort of as a test run before we embarked on the adventure of parenting children.

Two years earlier, at Roche Court sculpture park, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, the couple had shown together for the first time in their marriage: he with a dozen huge, rusted steel pieces from the series called Flats, made in 1974 in Canada with the aid of a crane; she indoors with a sequence of vibrantly coloured canvases painted with architectural forms not far distant from his.

From the beginning of their marriage, Irene and Hyman had collected art for their own pleasure, but his particular interest in sculpture led the couple to an early appreciation of the British school of sculpture, headed by Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, that emerged in the aftermath of the war.

Proponents of the bill hope to decrease the divorce rate through earlier intervention, giving couples an opportunity to repair their marriage.

An early news update from The Newark Star - Ledger begins, «The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled today that the state Constitution entitles same - sex couples to all the legal benefits of marriage, but by another name.»

In the early days of divorce law, couples seeking to end their marriage had limited legal recourse.

Many divorce mediators have asked themselves if they could have helped a divorcing couple through mediation a year or two earlier, when the couple was struggling but was not yet giving up on their marriage.

The Association for Couples in Marriage Enrichment is one expression of a movement that began in the 1960s but had its roots earlier.

While no can predict everything that will happen in a marriage — it's understandable that Kris Jenner may have had no idea her husband of 23 years, Bruce, would transition into Caitlyn — there are many familiar and contentious issues in a marital arc, such as chores, kids, finances and sex, that can and should be discussed early and often as couples move from childfree dual - earners to (perhaps) dual - earners with kids to empty - nesters and all the variations in between.

Concrete marriage research shows that couples who respond effectively to each other's bids early in their relationship and continue that positive behavior throughout their relationship are more likely to remain happily married.

It's normal for a couple in love to want to do everything with one another, especially early on in dating or marriage.

The study is intended to help diocesan marriage preparation programs be more effective in counseling engaged couples about what to expect in married life, according to Gail Risch, one of study's authors and a member of the marriage and family center of the Jesuit - run university in Omaha, Neb. «Although the early years of marriage involve much that is applicable to marriage in general, there are experiences, needs and issues unique to the first five years,» the study says.

Mentors become important sounding boards as young couples face the inevitable challenges of marriage during these early years before the problems become deeply entrenched.

Early in a marriage, couples may feel that to stay in love they need to agree, be quiet, not fight.

Intensive and successful engagement with Minister for Justice, all politicians in the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) and the wider public to ensure that at least full civil partnership based on marriage was enacted as opposed to earlier proposals (which continued to be supported by those opposed to change for same - sex couples) for a civil partnership model based on informal cohabitation with no conjugal status for same sex couples and limited protections.

• More couples than ever before are seeking relief from couples therapy (American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy) • Author is the Dating Doyenne for iVillage and writes the column «Dating After 40» for More magazine • Amatenstein has provided relationship advice for VHI, BBC, Lifetime, Inside Edition, Regis and Kelly, The Early Show, CBS News, and many other programs • Contributors are the most well - known marriage counselors in America, including: Dr. Judy Kuriansky, Dr. John Gray, Dr. John Gottman, Dr. Warren Farrell, Dr. Harville Hendrix, Dr. Ruth, and more Combining the best advice from the best counselors across the country — couples on the brink of divorce finally have the answers thMarriage and Family Therapy) • Author is the Dating Doyenne for iVillage and writes the column «Dating After 40» for More magazine • Amatenstein has provided relationship advice for VHI, BBC, Lifetime, Inside Edition, Regis and Kelly, The Early Show, CBS News, and many other programs • Contributors are the most well - known marriage counselors in America, including: Dr. Judy Kuriansky, Dr. John Gray, Dr. John Gottman, Dr. Warren Farrell, Dr. Harville Hendrix, Dr. Ruth, and more Combining the best advice from the best counselors across the country — couples on the brink of divorce finally have the answers thmarriage counselors in America, including: Dr. Judy Kuriansky, Dr. John Gray, Dr. John Gottman, Dr. Warren Farrell, Dr. Harville Hendrix, Dr. Ruth, and more Combining the best advice from the best counselors across the country — couples on the brink of divorce finally have the answers they need.

Now together a lot in our senior years, we believe many older couples would benefit from the skills we have learned in Better Marriages because old age brings serious but different stresses from those we experienced earlier.

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A list of the reasons couples break up would consume hundreds of pages, since the straw that breaks a marriage's back can be almost anything, including seemingly trivial disagreements that would have been ignored in the earlier stages of the marriage.

On average, she reports, cohabitors begin living together at an earlier age than marrying couples, but «when couples are compared by the age at which they move in together and start taking on the roles associated with marriage, there is no difference in divorce rates between couples that lived together before marriage and those that didn't.»