Sentences with phrase «larger issue in the marriage»

Missed expectations are one large issue in marriages, and helping set and manage expectations for newlyweds is a great effect of marriage counseling.

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Instead, I think the big issue for women (and much less so for men) is their lack of confidence in their ability to fulfill their life - goals, which is why marriage, family, and the extremely fraught issues of sexuality loom so large in our cultural politics.

The emails Cuomo sent yesterday give a very early clue to an argument he would likely make if he indeed decides to take a step onto the national stage: Under my leadership, New York led the nation on touchstone progressive issues, not only becoming the largest state in the country (before the US Supreme Court Prop. 8 decision) to legalize gay marriage, but also the first to act on gun control in the wake of the horrific Newtown massacre.

And the LGBT community, while obviously appreciative of achieving a major victory like same - sex marriage in one of the largest states in the county, still has other issues it would like to see approved that Senate Republicans likely wouldn't immediately bring to a vote.

Although representatives of the candidates denied the issue had a large impact, Mr. Brown said in an interview on Friday that Mr. Weprin's defeat was evidence that gay rights advocates were mistaken when they assured lawmakers who voted for same - sex marriage that they would not be hurt by their votes in future campaigns.

His last - minute appearance, which came just a few hours after thousands of same - sex marriage opponents held a much larger demonstration outside the governor's Midtown Manhattan office, underscored the high stakes at issue in the Senate vote.

NOW, the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States, was founded in 1966 and has hundreds of chapters in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. NOW - NY and NOW - NYC, the New York City chapter, have advocated on a number of issues affecting girls and women, including sexual assault, sexual harassment, domestic violence and child marriage — issues it has worked on with Cuomo and other elected officials.

«This issue has passed,» she said, given the large Democratic majority in the State Assembly and the presence of a governor who supports same - sex marriage.

It's not without significance that Vivian's documentary, determined to expose weaknesses in marriages, only reinforces their strengths, but Bell's script seldom uses the documentarian's lens as a sincere mirror for relationship issues that are later exposed or discussed, and then later forgets her for large chunks of its running time.

As much as the miniseries focuses on Olive and her issues, McDormand said that the larger story «is about a marriage and how a marriage survives depression and not just one woman's depression, but generations of depression, and also how a small town survives it, and different ways that people in those generations handle mental illness, not just depression.»

Many unmarried parents do not realize that child custody can become a very large issue in their lives because they associate custody disputes only with married couples ending marriages.

Marriage and family therapists treat a wide range of issues, and they approach their clients with both the individual and larger family system in mind.