The basic formats, topics, and communication skills for newly - marrieds groups and retreats are essentially the same as
for other marriage enrichment events.
Not exact matches
If you're really serious about finding someone to marry right now, you should be using Match.com or something, where you can target based on very specific criteria, and these are
other people who are paid and committed to settling down right now, so if
marriage in the next 18 months is your goal, then Match.com is the product
for you.
The first is that,
for dual income households,
marriage is a form of unemployment insurance: if one partner loses a job, the
other can offer financial support.
Reviewed by local regulators
for almost a year, that local
marriage was only step one
for the Brahma boys, who saw an industry ripe
for consolidation and initiated a strategy to improve margins by buying up brewers, eliminating duplicative operations, cutting excess suppliers, and
other steps that formed today's beer market, which is fragmented by brand but consolidated in terms of ownership.
In his book «The All - or - Nothing
Marriage,» Eli Finkel, a psychologist at Northwestern University and a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, made a similar argument: Modern spouses look to each
other for friendship, sexual fulfillment, intellectual growth — not just financial stability, like they did in years past.
«Electing
for a long repayment cycle can set you up
for debt drag that eclipses
other important milestones in life such as buying a home, preparing
for retirement and saving
for marriage and children.»
Our expectations
for what we want the
marriage to provide us have gotten higher in a lot of ways, more sophisticated in a number of
other ways, more emotional, more psychological, and because of this additional complexity, more of our
marriages are falling short, leaving us disappointed.
Suster recently took to his blog to offer lessons he learned through hard experience as a founder
for others trying to balance starting a company and keeping a
marriage together.
Penelope Trunk, the author of Brazen Careerist: The New Rules
for Success, argues that one of the advantages of the work spouse relationship is its no - strings - attached vibe — it offers the closeness and support of a
marriage, with out any sexual ties, commitment, or
other relationship baggage.
The fact that in western Europe between a tenth and a fifth of each generation never married, combined with a relatively late average age at
marriage for women, implied that fertility levels were normally lower than in
other societies.
Individuals in
other arrangements, such as civil unions, registered domestic partnerships, or
other similar arrangements, that aren't recognized as a valid
marriage under relevant state law won't be treated as married or as spouses as defined in this policy
for federal tax purposes.
Love and all that
other stuff is good and all that
for DATING, but
for marriage?
However, individuals in
other arrangements, such as civil unions, registered domestic partnerships, or
other similar arrangements, that are not recognized as
marriage under the relevant state law, will not be treated as married or as spouses as defined in this policy
for federal tax purposes.
The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like
marriage, except by reason of death or
other grave cause, might be a useful remedy
for our contemporary evils.
Far more extensive change to
marriage laws would be necessary to allow polygamy — in no
other country where equal
marriage for gay people exists has this come up.
For a confessional statement on
marriage to be coherent, the confession must also address all of these
other topics.
He wont lose one single vote
for this decision, nobody that is opposed to gay
marriage would ever vote
for Obama anyway, nor would most moderates that don't really care one way or the
other allow this issue to push them to vote
for the plutocrat.
Considering that (if memory serves me correctly) 50 % of all straight
marriages end in divorce, discriminating against alternative forms of
marriage and lifestyles which might be more solid and long lasting
for others does seem a tad hypocritical.
The
other is the Windsor case — discussed by Carl Scott earlier — in which the majority opinion not only sets aside part of the Defense of
Marriage Act passed with overwhelming support in 1996, but also dismisses and disparages the motives of those who voted
for it.
The Christian leaders had created the app to promote a document that urges opposition to abortion and gay
marriage and support
for religious liberty, among
other positions.
(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay
marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education
for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and
other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.
Really Daniel, I don't know what kind of
marriage you have, but my wife and I do not need one of us to have veto power over the
other in order
for our family to function.
Culturally, young adults have increasingly come to see
marriage as a «capstone» rather than a «cornerstone» — that is, something they do after they have all their
other ducks in a row, rather than a foundation
for launching into adulthood and parenthood.
Teresa Malecka, who had to convince Wojtyla (whom she and
others called Wujek, «Uncle»), that she was ready
for marriage at age twenty, is an accomplished musicologist and the former vice-dean of the Cracow Academy of Music.
Other writers have described other causes: the lobbying for same - sex marriage, the feminists» push for liberation from marriage duties, their legislative victories in getting states to adopt unilateral divorce, the culture's glorification of single moms, and the financial incentives for illegitimacy and divorce that flow from the welfare, child support, and domestic violence bureaucra
Other writers have described
other causes: the lobbying for same - sex marriage, the feminists» push for liberation from marriage duties, their legislative victories in getting states to adopt unilateral divorce, the culture's glorification of single moms, and the financial incentives for illegitimacy and divorce that flow from the welfare, child support, and domestic violence bureaucra
other causes: the lobbying
for same - sex
marriage, the feminists» push
for liberation from
marriage duties, their legislative victories in getting states to adopt unilateral divorce, the culture's glorification of single moms, and the financial incentives
for illegitimacy and divorce that flow from the welfare, child support, and domestic violence bureaucracies.
Right... so they didn't overtly «ask» you, however if you and the
other members are living by «correct principles» then not a big leap to decide
for yourself about the evils of gay
marriage and contribute money yourself... which, in fact... many of you did, yes...?
I see no difference between «plural
marriage» and any
other nutty religious practice... but I do have ONE question
for the Mormons about the topic:
It would be awesome to also hook them up with
other dead - gay - Mormon - converts
for posthumous
marriage.
As an atheist who believes in «Choice» (I dislike the idea of abortion but see the need
for people to be able to opt
for it) and polygamy (
marriage should be
for any number of consenting adults regardless of gender) and believes that the idea of draconian anti-gun measures is anathema as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a person treat
other people nicer then we should leave that person and his beliefs alone.
Some say
marriage is a dissolving institution, just par
for the course in this sea of modernity we're swimming in, and still
others seem to hold it on an impossibly high pedestal, as though one's life doesn't begin until one's wedding day: when you find your soulmate, your «
other half,» you will have found your ultimate fulfillment, the one who will dispel your loneliness forever.
As
for marriage and
other similar stuff, it should be left to the judgement of each educated and capable individual.
(A decision
for same - sex
marriage by a state could as in the case of Massachusetts, preempts the debate in that state, but it is less far - reaching because it leaves
other states to arrive at a different conclusion — unless, as some same - sex -
marriage proponents have claimed,
other states are required to recognize such
marriages under the Constitution's requirement of giving «full faith and credit» to
other states» proceedings.)
I don't know what God thinks, but to me if gay
marriage is about family life and the possibility of raising children (in
other words a desire on the part of gays to be accepted into married life as it exists) then I think it is a good thing
for the same reasons that I think hetero families are good and necessary.
I see that power at work in pastoral care
for those so alienated from each
other in faltering
marriages that the one can only recoil from the offered hand of the
other.
Of course there are
other reasons
for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home,
marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)
To hold that same - sex
marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary
for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of
other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.
«Because the friendship of
marriage results in children, and it is a burden of sorts to raise children, and because society benefits greatly if this is done well, it is usual
for society to separate out the friendship of
marriage from
other friendships, to give it special recognition, and to award it distinctive benefits.»
So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: «Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders;
others do this
for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of
marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.
The real peril
for McLaren comes from Julie's claims that he and the
other Emergent leaders in question did not, in fact, attempt to save her
marriage, but instead took an active role in ending it in favor of a pairing they found more suitable
for their friend and colleague.
C4M's high - profile campaign attracted around 668,000 signatures to a petition which said: «I support the legal definition of
marriage which is the voluntary union
for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all
others.
There are things we have established in our
marriage right from the start that have worked
for us: how we handle money, how we speak to each
other, how we make decisions, how we lead our family together, how we parent, how we work.
We have to learn to change our ways because or
for the sake of our CHILDREN, Mix
marriages are sometimes signs of protest to parents or relatives who hates the
other RACE
These laws were satisfying to those who
for religious or
other reasons believed that
marriage is a union or a contract
for life that can not be dissolved except in the most exceptional circumstances.
A man in his middle years described his hopes
for a weekend couples retreat: «I hope we can achieve that good, close feeling and learn to help
others do better than we've done — we've wasted so much time in our
marriage!»
A true commitment to
marriage gives the grace and strength to gradually overcome individual self - love, to learn to understand the
other in depth, to learn to forgive and to ask
for forgiveness, to be tolerant with the defects of the
other and intolerant with one's own defects.
Myth and fact are inextricably entangled, and a person is not necessarily a more authentic Christian by being more firmly grasped by the one or the
other: «
For this is the
marriage of heaven and earth: Perfect Myth and Perfect Fact: claiming not only our love and our obedience, but also our wonder and delight, addressed to the savage, the child, and the poet in each one of us no less than to the moralist, the scholar, and the philosopher.»
This covenant also takes place when two human beings consecrate themselves to each
other in
marriage or in brotherhood, «
for the consecration does not come by the power of the human partners, but by the power of the eternal wings that overshadow both.»
Dating and especially
marriage relationships can be tools
for showing Christ's love — to the
other person and to those around you.
Santorum, et al., may be interested in
other issues besides abortion and
marriage equality, but
for progressive, pro-equality Americans, he's just another evil anti-gay jihadist from the Religions «Right.»
A frequent «night on the town» — a night when each dresses up
for the
other and they enjoy a «date» — helps to keep romance alive in their
marriage.