Sentences with phrase «first failed marriage»

Blending families challenges the most dedicated spouses who must often deal with the leftover problems of the first failed marriage.

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.

Not exact matches

Donald Trump ascribing responsibility for his first two failed marriages to working «like, twenty - two hours a day» brought to mind Adam Smith's invocation of the «invisible hand» in his 1759 work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

Shackelford, 62, wrote that he had had «numerous affairs going back to the first two years» of his marriage and that the couple had «significant problems in their marriage for years, including three rounds of marital counseling that failed.»

If you're not putting your marriage first, becoming too emotionally enmeshed with your child, or not letting your kids fail, you're going down the wrong path.

Here's one of the first in a new series of ads from the Human Rights Campaign that feature prominent New Yorkers in politics and theater / movies making a pitch for the passage of a same - sex marriage bill, which failed in the Senate last December.

The Marriage Equality Act came up for its first and only vote in the Senate in 2009 and failed by a margin of 38 to 24.

His first marriage failed, partly as a result of the death of a daughter, but his second marriage and relations with his two children have been more enduring.

He was the first Republican in office ever to say so openly, and with the force of freshman Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his aides, the marriage bill was closer to reality than it had been since a failed vote in 2009.

Earlier: Marriage - Equality Bill Fails in State Senate 24 - 38 Related: Same Sex Marriage Follies: How Gay Activists Helped Turn The State Senate Blue in the First Place [NYM]

Senator Savino says if the bill comes to the floor, as Cuomo and women's groups desire, it would fail, just as same sex marriage was voted down the first time it came to the floor back in 2009.

Older Russian women are wiser, having first - hand experiences of failing marriages and hard realities of life as a single mother in a society that perceives an unmarried female as deficient.

In his first comedy special, the popular comic actor and musician reveals edgy, honest tales of his failed attempts at being a gangster, his humble roots, marriage, fatherhood and his thoughts about Eminem.

He abandoned his children from his first marriage, Danny (Adam Sandler), a failed pianist, and Jean (Elizabeth Marvel).

But don't be mistaken — the film very much has Ford's steely and militant glamour, especially as it relates to Adams» character Susan, a gallerist and Los Angeles society type whose marriage is on the brink of collapse, and who interprets the manuscript of a violent novel by her first husband, Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal), as a metaphor for their own failed relationship.

Once a noted guru thanks to his successful first book, a cancelled television show, a failed marriage, and now, a second self - financed publication have whittled away the reputed personality to a mere shadow of his former self.

Hilburn chronicles Cash's early hits such as «Folsom Prison Blues,» his foray into television in the late 1960s with «The Johnny Cash Show,» his failed first marriage and his deep love for June Carter, as well as his drug addictions.

Working in photography, as well as video and installation, her projects have documented same - sex marriage and used first - person accounts to surface the «experience of living in a country that constitutionally protects the rights of LGBTI people but often fails to defend them from targeted violence.»

If the scheme is intended to give safety net protection to vulnerable cohabitants then it would fail if it required couples to have first gone through a marriage / civil partnership type ceremony or registration.

Even though all the statistics are stacked against second marriages — even more fail than first marriages — with lots of hard work and love, success is possible.

Susan and I talked about how the book came to be, and our own experiences with societal judgment based on our marital choices — a late first - time marrier (43), Susan was barraged with questions by people wondering what was wrong with her whereas I, a twice married and divorced woman, was seen as someone who «failed» at marriage (twice!)

Census Bureau data suggests that second, third and subsequent marriages fail at greater rates than first marriages.

Emery's key messages to parents are: «Children whose parents put them first from the start have a tremendous advantage over those whose parents can not separate their feelings about their failed marriage from their feelings about the coparenting (sic) partnership that will last the rest of their lives», page 6 and «if you can be a parent first, even while facing all the challenges and changes in your life, then your kids will be free to be what you want them to be and what they deserve to be: just kids.

Second marriages — and blended families — fail more frequently than first marriages because of the problems associated with the blending of families.

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 marriFirst 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 marrifirst marriages.

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

I still feel the sadness that my first marriage failed.

Much of Gottman's earlier work, summarized in his first book What Makes Marriage Succeed or Fail?

First thing to keep in mind: whether or not you feel your wife has been clear in the past, or is even clear now, there is one truth to keep in mind: Everything you do or say, or don't do or say, is being carefully analyzed by your wife as proof of a failed marriage or as hope for the marriage.

Gottman, author of Why Marriages Succeed or Fail, and coauthor Joan Declaire focus first on the parent (a «know thyself» approach), and provide a series of exercises to assess parenting styles and emotional self - awareness.

Knowing the 33 indicators and paying careful attention to the guy you are thinking about marrying in the early stages of your relationship can save a failed marriage from happening in the first place.

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

And so we got real accurate, for the first time, observational research information about what makes marriages succeed or 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.

The numbers are even higher in some Western states like Nevada and California where over 60 % of first marriages fail.

Other studies show that more than half of marriages that fail do so in the first seven years.

To look at divorce positively, one must first understand that a failed marriage is not about failing in life but about life changes and growing apart.

Your first task in this reconstruction is to put your failed marriage behind you and deal with any residual feelings of grief, anger, or guilt.