Sentences with phrase «ending of a failed marriage»

Only two and a half years ago, the house - builder Keith Rocheville was overweight, unemployed and going through the bitter ending of a failed marriage.

Not exact matches

While Carrie and the gang returned from Abu Dhabi to their failing marriages, stressful careers, complicated sex lives and the tedium of motherhood — all of which were miraculously resolved by the time the credits rolled — La Vie en Rose returned with a real fairy - tale ending.

If you end up divorced, it means you didn't try hard enough, you don't know what commitment means and you're putting you own happiness before your family's — or all of the above — and that's why you have a failed marriage.

I once saw this video on youtube from an anti-marriage advocate who said that statistically more than half of marriages fail (not including murder, suicides, and those who end up in institutions), and the other half that decides to stick it out makes a sport out of making each other miserable by fighting like Israelis vs. Palestinians.

If we had new marital models, like contracts, we'd still get the longevity we seek in our marriage (whatever length the couple decides) without the stigma of a «failed marriage» when the contract ends (assuming the couple chooses not to renew).

The majority of marriages fail, either ending in divorce and separation or devolving into bitterness and dysfunction.

But Holly Dustin, manager of End Violence Against Women, believes the home secretary is continuing to fail the three million women across the UK who experience rape, domestic violence, forced marriage, trafficking, or other violent behaviour each year.

The marriage was in trouble — undermined by the pressures of academic life and a failed course of fertility treatments — and it ended soon afterward.

Milo is distraught over the end of a relationship and a failed acting career, while Maggie is unhappy in her marriage to nice guy Lance (Luke Wilson) and periodically unfaithful while also avoiding the pregnancy that Lance wants them to have.

Mostly, this is a dramatization of a collection of events in Nelson Mandela's life, from his time as a young lawyer and ladies» man, to his failed marriage, to his pursuit of power in the African National Congress, to his long relationship with the woman who would become Winnie Mandela (Harris, Skyfall), to his life in prison, and ultimately to the makings of the democracy in South Africa that would elect him and ultimately end the oppressive reign of apartheid in the tumultuous nation.

The second section of the book narrates (via «postcards» addressed to the book's subject) Parker Ervick's own story of her failing 17 - year marriage and her quest, like that of Božena Němcová, for a happy ending.

She has lived a harried life of failure, failed career, failed marriage and is at her wit's end until she meets a traveling male nurse who begins to change her world.

Author of three books, When All Else Fails: The Real Cost of Ending a Marriage, Win - Win Custody Solutions, and California Family Law: A Layman's Guide, Ron Supancic offers his clients the newest choices in family law.

A state can end up spending a lot of money on food and social services when a marriage fails.

First of all, the probability of affairs ending in marriages is not very high — between three and five percent, and many join the 75 percent of second marriages that fail, a rate half again as high as first marriages.

The majority of marriages fail, either ending in divorce and separation or devolving into bitterness and dysfunction.

In Gottman's acclaimed book, Why Marriages Succeed or Fail he uses a metaphor of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (depicting the end of times in the New Testament) to elaborate on his theory of couples communication.

Research by Dr. John Gottman — who spent sixteen years studying what makes marriages thrive and fail in his «love lab» at the University of Washington and who famously possesses the ability to predict with over 90 % accuracy whether a couple will end up divorcing based on watching them interact for just 15 minutes — found that happy couples don't necessarily have less conflict in their marriage than unhappy ones.

Keep in mind, half of all failed marriages end in the first 7 years.

Bill Ends Funding of Failed Abstinence - Only - Until - Marriage Programs, Funds International Reproductive Health Care at Highest Levels Ever

Long term marriages end in divorce because the inhabitants of these failed relationship are hopeful that they can find another relationship of happiness of just baste in the joy of being free to be themselves without having to submit in tolerance to the soon to be divorced long term marriage partner.

In my opinion, the biggest reason almost half of marriages end in divorce is because couples fail to ask each other the right questions BEFORE they get married.

In Gottman's acclaimed book, Why Marriages Succeed or Fail he uses a metaphor of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (depicting the end of times in the New Testament) to elaborate on his theory of couples communication.

This concern about the consequences of divorce, especially for children, has more and more couples and sociologists searching for ways to establish stable and satisfactory marriages that are more likely to succeed than to fail... and end in divorce.

More than half of all first marriages end in divorce; 60 percent of second marriages fail.

Nationwide, first marriages have 50 % failure rate, second marriages fail about 65 % of the time and 75 % of all third marriages end in divorce.

So when a spouse begins to invest more time and energy online and fails to keep up his or her end of the household bargain, it could signal a lesser commitment to the relationship itself — because another relationship has come between your marriage.