Sentences with phrase «longer than marriages»

The friendships lasted longer than the marriages.

A true fact is that statistically marriage to Russian women will last longer than any marriage to local women.

Mum had a Charles - and - Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself.

Not exact matches

Another part is that many watch only your stock price and your latest results — the short term rather than the long; or the wedding rather than the marriage, as Jacqueline Kelley, EY Americas IPO leader, writes.

A study from 2009 now getting buzz on the blogosphere explored the role marriage plays in the lesbian wage premium, and found that women who don't expect to be part of a traditional family spend more time investing in labour participation through on - the - job training and working longer hours than household skills.

«In some states, the courts will agree to tack on prior years of cohabitating... so it's viewed as a longer - term marriage than the legal date,» Kauffman said.

«Rather than seeing marriage as a voluntary partnership that lasts only as long as the passion does, the elders propose a mindset in which it is a profound commitment to be respected, even if things go sour over the short term.

Most of us go into marriage, or cohabitation, without much of a strategy other than an «I love you and I want to make it work» so it is not long before the issue of money rears its ugly head.

When it comes to their views on marriage and families, Millennials don't quite fit into the same mold as their predecessors, but when it comes to their desire to have stable, long - lasting relationships and families, the generation might prove more traditional than they seem.

The fight for marriage equality has been going on for much longer than a year.

God does not delight in the marriage of two 25 - year - olds more than in the marriage of two 65 - year - olds simply because the younger couple may have a longer time together.

Nothing can make me happier than seeing those whom I love be happy and free from the pain that they had been under for the last 3.5 years... I do deeply regret that I hid from the public the abuse that I have lived with for most of our marriage and I ask your forgiveness... Three months ago Saeed told me things he demanded I must do to promote him in the eyes of the public that I simply could not do any longer.

In many cases, mid-years couples discover that they are better off staying with their long - term marriage than dissolving the relationship in hopes of finding greener pastures elsewhere.

And yet I am more hopeful now for our marriage than I have been in a long time.

Stories of long - term spiritual growth and fulfillment in church are, in many ways, similar to stories of long - term growth and fulfillment in marriage: what matters more than initial compatibility is long - term commitment to growing together, working through conflict, and learning as broken people to love other broken people well.

And lately, I've had several conversations with 20 - somethings of both genders who have a longing to be parents, sometimes more unrelenting than their desires for marriage.

As predictable and pat as the Esquire piece may be, there's little doubt that the new consensus on family — «straight people blew up marriage a long time ago» — has powerful adherents quite a bit further up in the clouds than the average Esquire reader, or writer.

But I also believe that social justice is important given the systemic disadvantages in our country; heterosexual divorce is probably more detrimental than gay marriage; caring for the poor goes a long way toward reducing the «felt need» for abortion; and that setting Biblical morality up as civil law is probably not the way to go in a pluralistic society...

There are leaders who have been in the trenches for marriage ministry for many many years, longer than we have even been married and with much more experience and wisdom than I could dream of having.

Younger Christians are weary of pitched cultural battles and are longing for the «real Jesus» — a Jesus who talks more about washing feet and feeding the poor than flashpoint issues like same - sex marriage and the sanctity of life.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

I do believe marriage should be restricted to just two people, but other than that, as long as they are human people (not corporation people) and adult, I really don't care what their gender is.

Social welfare policies which encourage marriage and family cohesion such as increasing the «marriageability» of men, through wage supports and the EITC, will be of more long term benefit than creating new programs and new services.

A marriage now has the potential of lasting longer than ever before in history.

Given the diversity we see of the institution of marriage throughout human history, there just may be no specific Divine plan for human sexuality and marriage, as long as it's practice is guided by the Law of Love rather than predatory survivalist instincts.

The only problem I've ever had is that I bought the dark green one — not understanding that I was making a commitment that lasts longer than most marriages.

It also looks so vibrant:) Marriage nowadays has become a totally different «commitment» than a couple of decades ago and while some people do nt like the concept at all anymore, some others still love the idea of bonding for a life long.

Despite being terrible at her job and hating everyone, she stayed in it for 10 years, which is longer than some bad marriages.

Given that we are living longer than ever before, with some predicting that we may live to 150 years or more, multiple partnerships are almost a given, especially since more than half of Millennial men and women believe a marriage can be successful even if it doesn't last forever.

Much more than my dad, she understood how economic freedom gives women choices, including leaving a marriage they no longer want to be in, even if they have kids.

Because they were denied access to legal marriage for so long, many LGBQ people married for the first time at older ages than heterosexual couples, often after living together for many years, making their cohabiting and married relationships pretty similar.

For too long, much of that has been seen as «women's work» — which is why marriage has traditionally been better for men than women.

OK, we no longer have coverture and we have more egalitarian marriages than ever before, and thankfully women have financial independence.

... Acceptance of polyamory or plural marriage would have to include women having the freedom to marry or be with more than one, and it is likely that just as monogamous marriage has evolved to be more egalitarian so would plural marriage when it is out of the shadows and no longer hidden.

Financial difficulties and his job losses kept me in the marriage longer than I would have liked.

While those choosing a long - distance marriage may not end up having to deal with an affair any more or less than those who live together, they do tend to think about it more.

Also, I have known people who stayed a long - term live - together couples and they always wanted to do things differently than marriage, that was one reason they weren't married.

Denied marriage for so long, same - sex couples tend to view cohabitation through a different lens than heteros.

Results confirm that consistently married people live longer than those who have experienced marital breakup but suggest that this is not necessarily due to the protective effects of marriage itself.

Her marriage also last a good while — longer than mine — and produced a wonderful son.

Since we're living longer than ever and since women fare better by delaying marriage, why are we still wringing our hands about this?

So a single man who avoids marriage like the plague will have as long or longer (if ever divorced) lifespan than married men.

Honey that just means you'll be in debt a long time because you're more concerned with the monthly payment than paying it off, you're nowhere near marriage material in my opinion.

Speaking of which — Penelope, I'm not sure if someone else has pointed this out, but the link you provided on the «There is no evidence that waiting longer than 25 makes a better marriage» actually says, if I'm reading correctly, that divorce rates fall when the bride is 25 or older, which isn't really the same thing as what you said.

But for one demographic group, marriages last longer than most: College - educated women have an almost eight - in - ten chance of still being married after two decades.

So the longer you can look younger than 45 the longer runway time you will have to figure out how to raise kids, hold a marriage together and still keep things vibrant and interesting intellectually.

But instead of wringing our hands about so - called gray divorces and seeing those long - term marriages as failures, perhaps we should consider marriage as more «till the kids part» than «till death do us part.»

Cuomo has also been in office much longer than Spitzer was at the time Troopergate broke, and he has had far more success in office than Spitzer, passing four on - time budgets and numerous pieces of high - profile legislation (the SAFE Act, gay marriage etc.) through the Legislature.

But deep divisions in the Tory party were highlighted in the commons when Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, and his long standing ally Owen Paterson, the environment secretary, joined more than 100 Tory MPs to vote against Cameron in favour of an amendment that would allow registrars to opt out of conducting same sex marriage ceremonies.

As Greenberg noted, the governor's honeymoon with voters has lasted longer than some celebrity marriages.