Sentences with phrase «marital models»

Then we offer a list of questions readers might want to ask themselves to help them clarify what they want out of a relationship and whether a particular marital model might work for them.

One of the most controversial marital models in The New I Do is no doubt the Parenting Marriage (although some might say the Open Marriage or the Safety Marriage — we'll let you decide!)

I know I've written about celebs from time to time, but just to be clear, I don't think anyone should ever look to celebs as marital models — even long - term couples like Jeff Bridges and Kevin Bacon.

As Susan Pease Gadoua and I suggest in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, if we continue to raise kids in a love - based marital model, we will continue to see the same results.

We need to help people marry smarter, and that's what Susan Pease Gadoua and I are hoping to accomplish with our project, The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Cynics, Commitaphobes and Connubial DIYers, Among the many marital models we have is a Parenting Marriage, an agreement a couple enters into before marrying in which they commit to staying married until the last child leaves for college (with an option to continue to renew their contract if they wish).

; all we have done is looked at research, our own and others (peer - reviewed), talked to people who are living alt marriages, and culled from all of that the pros and cons of various marital models.

There may be many things to not like about Trump whether you voted for him or not, but choosing an alternative marital model shouldn't be one of them.

What Susan Pease Gadoua and I are trying to do in our book, The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, is get people to marry more consciously and avoid these problems, plus create marital models that set them up for success.

Rather than divorce or «work» on your marriage — which is expecting something different to suddenly occur by having a date night or having more sex, etc., despite being stuck in the same marital model — why not reinvent it?

Which is the conversation I had recently with two family law attorneys who know all too well what isn't working in our traditional marital model, San Francisco Bay Area attorney Mark Ressa and Minneapolis, Minnesota, attorney Mark Boulette.

No matter how you feel about your parents, they were your first marital model — not a fairy tale in which the prince sweeps the princess off to his castle and they live happily ever after.

In order for the 21st century relationship to survive, it must tackle the archaic marital model that has been imprinted onto our DNA.

No one should ever look to celebs as marital models — even long - term couples like Jeff Bridges and Kevin Bacon.

As Susan Pease Gadoua and I suggest in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, if we continue to raise kids in a love - based marital model, we will continue to see the same results.

We need to help people marry smarter, and that's what Susan Pease Gadoua and I are hoping to accomplish with our project, The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Cynics, Commitaphobes and Connubial DIYers, Among the many marital models we have is a Parenting Marriage, an agreement a couple enters into before marrying in which they commit to staying married until the last child leaves for college (with an option to continue to renew their contract if they wish).

But we are going one step beyond Haag; we're actually presenting various marital models and details on how they would work.

There may be things to not like about Trump whether you voted for him or not, but choosing an alternative marital model shouldn't be one of them.

What do you think we need — a law that makes divorce harder, or marital models to marry smarter and support for couples who, despite their best efforts to salvage their marriage, end up divorced anyway?

Susan Pease Gadoua, my The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels co-author, and I also will be at the conference, talking about the stresses of life after baby — which is even harder for those who have struggled just to create a family — as well as how to renegotiate your marital contract to a Parenting Marriage, one of the marital models in our book.

That is exactly what we hope people get from The New I Do — an awareness of whether the marital model we know still works for who we are today.

One of the marital models in The New I Do is a companionship marriage, a model I have sometimes struggled to define.

(That's why in The New I Do, we acknowledge the fact that some people desire freedom while still wanting long - term commitment and companionship, and offer a marital model that provides both.)

I've done it twice and even though I have no desire to walk down the aisle again, I co-wrote a book about marriage that basically is for the institution — but a much more individualized version of marriage because when no one has to marry anymore, it makes sense to make marriage fit the people entering into it instead of trying to cram themselves into a one - size - fits - all marital model that actually doesn't fit many people today.

With that background, it's easy to understand why some men might be hesitant to tie the knot in the kind of one - size - fits - all traditional marriage model we've been practicing, which is yet another reason why the marital models in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels will help brides - and grroms - to - be — and, in this case, especially the grooms — get the marriage they want without vague vows of «until death do us part.»

Read more about why living apart together is a marital model that would work for couples besides the Trumps here.

The marital models get us out of the one - seize - fits - all model (which it doesn't, by the way) so couples can marry for success by how they define success.

«I think the marital model is something everyone relates to,» Gavazzi said.

What do you think we need — a law that makes divorce harder, or marital models to marry smarter and support for couples who, despite their best efforts to salvage their marriage, end up divorced anyway?

I know I've written about celebs from time to time, but just to be clear, I don't think anyone should ever look to celebs as marital models — even long - term couples like Jeff Bridges and Kevin Bacon.

In all of these marital models, the men worked (or hunted), and the women stayed home and raised the children.