In Krummhörn children from a father's first
marriage died more often before the age of 15 if a stepmother moved in.
Not exact matches
This idea is eating away at a true, beautiful view of
marriage that has less to do with wooing and
more to do with
dying.
We can keep making our excuses, forming
more rationalizations (parents are expected to
die, after all — it's normal; my good
marriage might be too hard for her to take; in an urban setting, what can you expect?
Before any of us can be reborn to
more open, loving
marriages, some of the self - absorption and defensiveness that distances us from each other must
die.
Here is the reality of my divorce: Despite the fact that the court appointed custody evaluator ruled parenting during the
marriage was joint, a vocational evaluation that concluded my ex-wife could make just as much money as me, joint custody of the children post
marriage (although in reality they were with me much
more often), pretty good evidence my ex-wife committed fraud and perjury and absolute evidence her lawyer maliciously lied in court, I am required by the court to pay her a massive amount of alimony until he day I
die.
When Spyer
died two years later due to complications from a heart condition and a 30 - year battle with multiple sclerosis, the US government refused to acknowledge the couple's
marriage, forcing Windsor to pay
more than $ 350,000 in federal taxes on Spyer's estate — fees that heterosexual widows are generally exempt from.
The
marriage was never officially dissolved, though, so she shacked up illicitly with Bayfield, and made her living teaching piano — even though her hands were ruined, by accident or,
more likely, syphilis — until her father
died and she inherited a ton of money.
Edith Windsor, now 83, had to pay
more than $ 600,000 in estate taxes when her wife and partner of 42 years
died — even they were residents of New York, which recognized same - sex
marriages.
Marriage is
more than owning a home, saving for retirement, having 2.5 children, and marking things off of your to - do list until you
die.
In the event that one of you should
die, having a legal
marriage would make dealing with many aspects of the arrangements far easier and
more financially feasible.
Too often, he says, we fracture our lives and split our energies foolishly, so that one or
more of these
marriages is sacrificed and may wither and
die, in the process impoverishing them all.