Sentences with phrase «friends than a spouse»

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It can be a spouse, a friend, a parent, but it has to be somebody that's far enough away from you that they're not in the super day - to - day — like it can't really be a coworker — but they have to be close enough to know you better than you know yourself.

In San Diego, more than 4,000 military family members are part of a group that helps them make friends with other spouses.

When questioned together, spouses or friends tend to settle for compromise statements rather than to search their own souls.

I like to tell people that prayer is nothing more than talking to God as you would talk to a spouse or a friend.

When this happens, the friendship becomes more enjoyable than the marriage, and the friend is given more love (even if it is philo — friendship love) than the spouse.

Indeed, all too often even a spouse is not really a «friend,» yet there may be no others whose friendship is more than superficial.

You'll find similar responses over at City - Data Forum, along with, «My spouse is more like a room - mate (friend, maybe, I'm not sure) than a lover these days.

But I know that not all women have the opportunity to breastfeed at all, or they must stop breastfeeding sooner than they'd like because they don't have the support they need at work, or from their spouse, or from their friends and family.

Or, if you have a spouse or friend whose threshold for mess is higher than yours, ask them to supervise this one.

Advocacy More than 65 million Americans provide unpaid care to an older parent, a spouse, a sibling, a special needs child or a friend, serving as the nation's largest volunteer health care army.

More than 1.1 million spouses, parents and friends are caring for the injured and disabled who have served in the U.S. military since Sept. 11, 2001, often doing so without a formal support network and putting their own well - being at risk, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

Aside from listing their spouses and family members at each follow - up, participants gave names of close friends who would likely know their future whereabouts; more than 70 percent of these were also included in the study, creating a dense social network suitable for identifying epidemiclike effects.

People who lose their spouse may do better health-wise to confide in a close friend than in a close relative, according to Jamila Bookwala, a psychology professor at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., a researcher who studies and teaches about relationship trends among adults in middle age and older.

Christakis study drew on a subset of those data, a social network that includes about 5000 individuals and more than 7000 of their parents, siblings, spouses, and friends.

It's used in arguments to suggest that you care about yourself more than your spouse, partner, child, parent, or friend.

Your chances of meeting a special friend or future spouse while serving your community are much better than they are at a club or bookstore — when you're passionate about your principles, you're bound to meet like - minded individuals.

Friend Me... Now Put a Ring on It: A Third of Recently Married Folks Met Online, Study Says «He (Dr. Warren) thinks people looking for a future spouse online take more time getting to know each other before getting serious than real - world suitors do.»

Single Christians looking for a spouse, however, will do more than just look for friends.

With Americans living longer than ever, increasing numbers of us will be launched into an old age in which we've outlived our friends, our parents and even our spouses, whild our children and grandchildren have scattered to distant cities.

More than likely, your family, spouse, friends, co-workers, and everyone else won't support your writing career.

Many mentioned having a spouse, child, or friend who is more tech - savvy than them and serves as an inspiration or teacher:

The pet owners also experienced milder stress responses and a faster recovery from stress when they were with their pets rather than with a spouse or friend.

If it is your spouse or partner you are surprising, travel availability may be a little easier to ascertain than if your travel gift recipient is a friend or other family member.

This year's Summer Exhibition, which is co-ordinated by sculptor Richard Wilson RA, celebrates this phenomenon with works by more than 15 two - people partnerships: men, women, man and woman, women who have been men, twins, siblings, friends, lovers, ex-lovers, spouses.

Your spouse would have greater incentive to cosign on a loan than another relative or trusted friend would.

With 70 likes, it was more accurate than a friend or roommate; with 150, more accurate than a family member; and with 300, more accurate than a spouse.

Sharing personal thoughts or stories with a new friend of the opposite sex, feeling a greater emotional intimacy with him or her than with a spouse, comparing the friend to the spouse (and listing why the spouse doesn't add up), longing for the next contact or conversation, changing normal routines or duties to spend more time with him or her, fantasizing about spending time with him or her and keeping conversations a secret from the spouse — all are channel markers that mark the passage of friendship to an emotional affair.

You have not told anyone other than family and close friends what is going on with your spouse.

The collaborative divorce process gives spouses the opportunity to spare their children, family, friends, and others from learning the specifics of why they are separating by resolving their divorce issues in private conference rooms rather than in a public courthouse.

Interestingly, although men expected wives to have more communal strength toward their spouse than toward their best friends, t (18) = 3.35, p =.004, women did not expect husbands to have more communal strength towards their spouses than towards their best friends, t (19) = -.76, p =.46.

In Egypt, there was a significant interaction between relationship type and participant sex, Wilks» Lambda =.75, F (2, 36) = 6.13, p =.005, partial eta squared =.25, such that whereas women reported similar ideals for communal strength towards spouses and mothers and less towards best friends, men reported lower communal strength towards spouses and best friends than toward mothers.

Across both men and women, perceived ideal communal strength toward the spouse (M = 7.70, SD = 1.28) was significantly higher than toward best friends (M = 7.15, SD = 1.44; t (53) = 2.75, p =.008), and perceived communal strength toward mothers (M = 7.50, SD = 1.61) was also significantly higher than toward best friends, t (53) = 2.13, p =.04.

However, in discussing why the «lovers first group» did not differ from the «friends first» group in relationship quality, Barelds and Barelds - Dijkstra stated that the lovers first group may perceive themselves to be similar and concluded, «relationship success may be more strongly related to spouses» perceptions of similarity than to their actual degree of similarity.»

But while couples who saw their best friend as someone outside of the relationship were happier than single people, the study found that those who consider their spouse or partner to be their best friend get about twice as much life satisfaction from marriage as other married people.

You'd rather talk to friends or check posts on social media than watch a movie with your spouse or have a conversation.

When both spouses had gained a degree of the same level, 39.1 % reported a conflict between the spouses, 26.6 % a conflict with the husband's family or friends and 12.5 % mentioned an economic problem as a reference for the WOC (the only group who mentioned economic problem for that), but, when the husband had a higher degree than the wife, 50.0 % reported a conflict between the spouses and 35.7 % a conflict with the husband's family or friends, and finally, when the women had gained the higher degree, 81.8 % described a conflict between the spouses and 13.6 % a conflict with the husband's family or friends.

There are problems when a coworker or friend knows more about your marriage than your spouse knows about your friendship.

The basic premise here is that it's much easier to be friends than enemies with your spouse.

A person has a different relationship with their spouse than with their children, and each of those is different from the relationships with friends or their insurance broker.