Sentences with phrase «living part of the marriage»

Maybe because we are covering our own bases, but the commitment is still a living part of the marriage.

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Since there is only one legal marriage contract on the government books in this family with the rest of the marriages being only spiritual cermonies to bind them each to one another, and there was no duplicity involved on the husband's part, I see no reason why they can not live the lifestyle they have freely chosen as consenting adults.

The best part about living in a secular country is that religious opinions of marriage are irrelevant to the legal definition as «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»

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.

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?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?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?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?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.

Like Jesus» life and work, our marriages share in the same irony — the full weight and glory of each appears only when death comes to part the bride and groom.

In 1991, my predecessor Bishop Glennon P Flavin wrote that «there can be no true happiness in your lives unless God is very much a part of your marriage covenant.

Yet these modern Saints who have elected to live in plural marriage as the most dramatic and satisfying means of demonstrating total commitment to the fullness of the gospel are clearly a part of the picture.

This could be a couple's retreat, a vacation where you map out your dreams or a conference that focuses on one or more parts of marriage: communication, budgeting, life goals, spiritual connection, the list goes on and on.

(I know you've said I would be welcome, but you've also said that you wouldn't let a couple living together before marriage express a differing view of the issue from your own or so much as ladle soup for the homeless as part of your church.)

In Africa you would identify the encounter between religion and life, and marriage, and hunting, and every aspect of daily life as part and parcel.

The family is also threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life.»

Since these features of life are not about to change, divorce will remain an intrinsic part of married life, marriage and family are no longer synonymous, and we must aim not so much to prevent divorce as to prevent divorce's «negative consequences.»

«Not having sex before marriage is a way of insisting that the most interesting part of your life will take place after marriage, and if it's more interesting, maybe then it will last.»

And he has noted what any person of common sense has also noted: «The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life.»

This is a big part of what marriage is: working together to find something you can both live with.

We now live in a culture in which about half of all marriages end in divorce; in which nearly half of all children spend part of their childhood in fatherless homes; in which women and men who put their families first are falling behind economically and professionally; in which many of the nation's youngest citizens are starving for parental time and attention, and often for basic material necessities.

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I too am tired of selective appeals to «biblical marriage» that tend to glorify the modern nuclear family as the only ideal and render real people with real lives into a mere political / religious «issue,» and I too am reluctant to support an establishment that sends part of its profits to the Family Research Council, an organization that has fed blatant misinformation about homosexuality to Christians for years.

Even for those women who enthusiastically embrace marriage and motherhood... a substantial part of their lives is without a husband and / or children... Furthermore, the traditional message to women is tenuous at best — all it takes is a single tragic phone call for her to be dropped from that demographic.

Enrichment of their lives and marriages will benefit themselves, their adolescent children, and all the social institutions, including the churches, in which they have a prominent part.

Her response is that she has only been a Christian for a few years and that her broken marriages are part of a life which she has left behind.

Marriage and sexual union within marriage are a part of the essence of human nature, and the connection between genes, gestation and family life should not beMarriage and sexual union within marriage are a part of the essence of human nature, and the connection between genes, gestation and family life should not bemarriage are a part of the essence of human nature, and the connection between genes, gestation and family life should not be broken.

The rest of the world does a great job of teaching that sex is good, sex sells, sex is a part of life, without hardly mentioning whether its referring to before or after marriage, because, of course, it doesn't matter, does it?

All the churches I've ever gone to (Evangelical protestant) don't hide that an active, healthy sex life is a major part of marriage.

Part of the reason the future looked so bleak was because I couldn't look to many others who were living into compelling stories as celibate men and women, and the future story the church imagined for me hinged on marriage.

Marriage used to be considered the common, and yet individual, worthwhile adventure to which each one is called; and a large part of one's adolescent life was guided by the call to prepare for such a sacred venture.

so we're like not official but we already are sorta dating and sorta have spending life together plans and sorta have marriage plans part of it is that like her sister would prob go off the deep end more if we announced it but her parents joke about the idea more than we've actually discussed it so it's like a weird pseudo thing

This part of marriage should not be this complicated, it is kinda what keeps the other parts on track and relieves the tensions of the everyday crap and spats that come along from a normal marriage and family life.

Those parts may not surface until something happens, some difficult phase of your marriage or life and, boom, you suddenly get the very uncomfortable feeling that you are married to a stranger.

Add to that the wrinkle that marriage plans reach well beyond established law to touch on parts of couples» lives where prenups are not traditionally enforced, and this isn't a DIY project.

But what does it really mean to ask for a «new ethic of responsible parenthood» for the many young, poor women who see having children as «an absolutely essential part of a young woman's life, the chief source of identity and meaning» as well as a mature, responsible choice, as Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas discovered in their ground - breaking book Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage.

But for today's young women, that's no longer so — many have careers, property and rich, full lives before they couple, and yet they still give up parts of what they loved about single life and who they were for the sake of marriage.

Your marriage, just like parenting, career, finances, friendship, health and any other part of life has its ups and downs.

There's been a lot of talk and a fair amount of hand - wringing about the numbers of couples that are living together — there are 12 times as many cohabiting couples today as there were in the 1970s (in part because we're a lot more accepting of such arrangements and in part because Millennials are — wisely — delaying marriage).

The wedding industry reinforces the idea that marriage is a central and essential part of having a happy, fulfilling, and satisfying life.

We are very fervent on keeping some parts of our lives — our marriage — the same, and this is one boundary we didn't cross.

I think this is a case where your mother did not have them as part of her early life and therefore did not continue them into our marriage and your childhood.

Speaking later to BBC Breakfast, the new Labour leader, who is an atheist, insisted that marriage was not an essential part of a stable family life.

While the love story of Princess Grace and Prince Ranier of Monaco is not exactly fairy tale, she always maintained that they had a genuine real life love of one another, with all of the normal ups and downs that are part of any marriage.

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It seemed that dating and marriage was the only part of our lives that people discussed.

Hundreds of thousands of men in different parts of the world live in marriage with Russian women; they live in love, care and attention.

I had a wonderful marriage and looking for God's Will in the next part of my life.

Due to Hollywood, fast life, superficiality, hot weather, beaches and all walks of life playing a big part; loose dating styles in Los Angeles are prized over marriage and traditional life styles.

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