Sentences with phrase «in making their marriage work»

Too much suffering occurs because couples simply have not had the resources to guide them in making their marriage work.
I am reading this post for the 3rd time in 2 weeks and I can see the simplicity in making our marriages work.
Giving your spouse your complete attention and acting like you want to be there shows that you are invested in making your marriage work, says Gunzburg.
The world's leading researcher in making marriage work, Dr. John Gottman, states: «Happily married couples aren't smarter, richer, or more psychologically astute than others.
As an experienced couples counselor and expert in his community, James shared his thoughts on the fundamental necessities in making a marriage work and the toxic pitfalls that couples have to avoid at all costs!
As Celello writes in Making Marriage Work:
She also works as a supervisor in the Make Your Marriage Work premarital program.
Everyone knows that having a healthy sexual relationship between a man and a woman is an important aspect in making a marriage work.
We are living in a period when marriage is available to everyone, but in which we are no better prepared to make relationships work, yet we are expected to succeed somehow in making marriage work.
Compatibility is very important in making a marriage work.

Not exact matches

When the company acquired LinkedIn for $ 26.2 billion in 2016, PCMag made several predictions about the ways in which a Microsoft and LinkedIn marriage could work, like Microsoft leveraging LinkedIn in order to give users access to expertise within Microsoft apps, such as Word and PowerPoint.
«After a long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband,» she said in a statement.
Make hard work your favorite words, whether at work or at home or in your marriage or wherever your definition of success takes you.
It could also have a positive effect on womens» employment and careers by making it easier to balance work with home and childcare obligations — since men in heterosexual marriages still often aren't doing their share on that front.
My life was turned upside down a couple years back in a situation that led to the dissolution of my marriage, I also work in animal rescue, which brings me constant anxiety that animals I know and care about may not make it, and frequently the actual crushing pain of losing them.
If they are all adult and do not engage in the act of marrying children, and if plural marriage works for them and make thems happy, what possible difference does it make to anyone else?
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.
If your analogy were to work in the same way, you would have to make marriage the third corner — husband, wife, marriage NOT husband, wife, inlaws.
And the idea that, as a wife, I would need to «become passive» or smaller or somehow less in order to make my marriage work is damaging and wrong.
Given the close association of the sexes in modern working life, men or women need to observe delicate respect for the commitments of married colleagues; carelessness here could make them responsible for the collapse of a marriage and the destruction of a family.
But this part of her argument raises another question: If people's love for their children can motivate them to make heroic efforts to be good parents after divorce, couldn't the same amount of effort be expended to make many of the marriages work in the first place?
I am not saying that marriages between people of different faiths never work at all, or that simply being a «Christian» guarantees that we will make good choices in our marriage or that we will be exempt from divorce.
The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!
In less prosperous and less romantic times, Christians have viewed marriage in more pragmatic terms as God's good gift of providing a partner with whom to work and live and make lovIn less prosperous and less romantic times, Christians have viewed marriage in more pragmatic terms as God's good gift of providing a partner with whom to work and live and make lovin more pragmatic terms as God's good gift of providing a partner with whom to work and live and make love.
But while his outstanding books on marriage, morality and spirituality gradually became known in the English - speaking world, and his series of works on the post-Conciliar Church made him a hero to committed Catholics, few knew of Dietrich's early writings against fascism and Nazism, written in German but never translated.
i don't think he's in the business of making our marriage work by me turning off my brain or my wife turning off hers.
However, as we look around today and ask what conditions seem on the whole to make for happiness in marriage, we are driven to the curious conclusion that the more «civilized people become the less capable they seem of lifelong happiness with one partner» (p. 135) For a marriage to work requires that there «be a feeling of complete equality on both sides; there must be no interference with mutual freedom; there must be the most complete physical and mental intimacy; and there must be a certain similarity in regard to standards of value» (p. 143).
But we are committed to investing in our marriage in this way, and so we make it work, even if it's a shared dessert at home after our daughter goes to sleep or a walk at the park with her in a stroller while we talk.
Society and cultural norms and history have made marriage something that seems totally normal, when in reality, only certain types of people and certain types of personalities are going to be naturally able to make marriage work.
Also, if you want to come up with a better model for marriage, you're going to have to make some judgments about what works in general.
All of which would make me sad if I weren't so excited by what Susan and I are working on — models to make marriage work better for those who want to marry while acknowledging that marriage isn't for everyone (and that's OK — who wants to get «caught up in the hoopla» a la Kim Kardashian)-- and that divorce isn't a failure.
Doyle isn't the only one who thinks it all rests on the woman's shoulders, or so I learned by reading the illuminating book Making Marriage Work by Kristin Celello, newly out in paperback; I now understand why we consider marriage as something to «work» on (although it wasn't always seen that way; it used to be a «duty») and why saving a marriage is «women's work» — that's how it has been presented to women for Marriage Work by Kristin Celello, newly out in paperback; I now understand why we consider marriage as something to «work» on (although it wasn't always seen that way; it used to be a «duty») and why saving a marriage is «women's work» — that's how it has been presented to women for decaWork by Kristin Celello, newly out in paperback; I now understand why we consider marriage as something to «work» on (although it wasn't always seen that way; it used to be a «duty») and why saving a marriage is «women's work» — that's how it has been presented to women for marriage as something to «work» on (although it wasn't always seen that way; it used to be a «duty») and why saving a marriage is «women's work» — that's how it has been presented to women for decawork» on (although it wasn't always seen that way; it used to be a «duty») and why saving a marriage is «women's work» — that's how it has been presented to women for marriage is «women's work» — that's how it has been presented to women for decawork» — that's how it has been presented to women for decades.
KatesWorld40 — I think anyone, female or male, who is continually disrespected in a marriage / relationship should look probably needs to leave (assuming attempts to work with the offending party to make things better hasn't worked).
One of them copped to initiating an affair thinking that maybe if they could just get it «out of their system» then they might be able to make the marriage work in other aspects.
And the promotion of «traditional» marriage will continue to make people unhappy, first because there is no such thing as «traditional» marriagemarriage has been changing since humans created the concept — and second because the model doesn't work for about half of us, probably more as many people stay married in name only just to get health benefits, etc..
I think it's great people are able to make marriage work, to compromise and rely on one another for support in life and with children.
But if we're really talking about - honest - to - goodness, down - and - dirty, I'm - committed - to - doing - what - it - takes - to - make - this - relationship - work commitment, then shouldn't a couple that takes commitment seriously be able to work through infidelity — in whatever incarnation it comes to them — and keep their marriage intact?
Astro: If they go through the process of asking whether marriage is working for them without the fear and shame that the sacred cows produce, they'll still probably have some soul searching to do and maybe a lot of pain to go through, but it would be less than it would be otherwise and they'll probably end up in a happier place if they can make that decision free of that fear.
A few years ago I made the explicit decision to structure my days and workflow so I didn't need to work in the evenings because to the surprise of no one, working every night was seriously detrimental to my marriage!
It may be the stress of the childhood relationships to divorced parents, the expectation that marriages can easily end in divorce, or the loss of a close and confiding relationship with two parents who have made a marriage work that account for these findings.
This is a generation that is used to this idea that everything is in beta, that life is a work in progress, so the idea of a beta marriage makes sense,» the study's author, Melissa Lavigne - Delville, told me.
Time crunch: The amount of time couples devoted to marriages in prior eras doesn't cut it today; now, you need to invest more to make it work.
In 1971, seven years after their wedding, Cosby's wife, Camille, remained committed to making their marriage work despite the distractions of Hollywood.
Between juggling kids, career, housework and husband, it would seem the life of a working mom would make for a strained marriage, but the opposite may be true, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Family Psychology.
So my question is, do you think a marriage or a relationship / friendship like that could work if both are open and upfront about the terms and boundaries of the relationship, and both are content to cohabitate (sic) in an arrangement like this because we make each other happy and we love each other in our own way, but we're not in love with each other?
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Dr. Gayle Peterson's Making Healthy Families website has been given Honorable Mention for the Peter Markin award by the Association of Marriage and Family Therapy «The Markin Family commends the work of Dr. Gayle Peterson, whose website www.makinghealthyfamilies.com, has been developed in the spirit and true desire to outreach to families and the community.
In a Psychology Today article titled «What Makes Marriage Work,» Gottman writes that communication is key to a lasting marriage, even if that communication means Marriage Work,» Gottman writes that communication is key to a lasting marriage, even if that communication means marriage, even if that communication means arguing.
It has also helped my friendships and marriage by not trying to make everyone else in my life my listening partner — which was not working so well!
If you're offended by this Parenting Marriage idea, I invite you to tune in again next week and just listen to some of the ways people have made this arrangement work.
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