Sentences with phrase «marriage than couples»

What was unexpected though was that mixed couples do better in marriage than couples where both scored high on materialism.

Research reviewing numerous premarital counseling effectiveness studies found that couples who participate in pre-marriage preparation report on average a 30 % stronger marriage than couples who did not participate in pre-marriage counseling (Stanley, Amato, Johnson & Markman, 2006).

Research reviewing numerous premarital counseling effectiveness studies found that couples who participate in pre marriage preparation report on average a 30 % stronger marriage than couples who did not participate in pre marriage counseling (Stanley, Amato, Johnson & Markman, 2006).

Despite the stories of the importance of religion in marriage that so many couples have shared with me, there is no hard evidence that I have found showing that having religion as a central part of their lives gives a couple any greater chance of having a successful marriage than couples that are not religious.

Those that no longer find their marriages providing the happiness that they have come to expect, are more likely to leave a marriage than couples in the past who did not have these same expectations.

And get this: they're also 3.5 times more «sexually satisfied» in their marriage than couples who don't make time for each other.

In his own research, he found that «couples who meet online are more likely to progress to marriage than couples who meet in other ways.»

Furthermore, the same study found out that heterosexual couples who met online made a quicker transition to marriage than couples who met offline.

Researchers at the University at Buffalo followed 634 couples through the first nine years of marriage and discovered that couples who drink similar amounts of alcohol on average are more likely to have a successful marriage than couples who differ in their drinking patterns.

eHarmony users scored well: couples who had met on the site were more satisfied with their marriages than couples who had met on Match.com, via friends or family, or at a bar or other social gathering.

Now a study funded by the Santa Monica - based firm offers scientific evidence that husbands and wives who met online are more satisfied with their marriages than couples that met the old - fashioned way.

< FONT FACE = «ARIAL, HELVETICA» > Fact: While couples who experienced premarital counseling claim to be more satisfied in their marriages than couples who did not, in the end there is no difference in marital outcomes between those couples who have had extensive premarital counseling and those who have not.

Not exact matches

Couples prefer to stay in less - than - satisfying marriages over losing the equity they have built up in their homes.

According to research by Jeffrey Dew, a faculty fellow with the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, couples who fight about finances once a week are 30 % more likely to divorce than those who disagree on the topic a few times per month.

Many phaseouts create significant marriage penalties — or bonuses — because the phaseout range for married couples is less than twice that for single tax filers.

Marriage penalty: The additional tax that some married couples pay because they must file as a couple rather than separately.

If he's giving a de facto license to abandon your marriage or tell married couples that they're somehow less than married, then you can go ahead and add my name to the list of those who think his words are irresponsible.

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.

This is why I would sooner recommend The 5 Love Languages to prospective couples than one of the myriad of Christian books that attempt to prepare people for marriage by basing advice on gender stereotypes.

Churches which have tried a variety of marriage enrichment retreats report that participation by couples in the first ten years is generally more enthusiastic than that of couples in any other marriage stage.

A man in his middle years described his hopes for a weekend couples retreat: «I hope we can achieve that good, close feeling and learn to help others do better than we've done — we've wasted so much time in our marriage!»

Multiple studies indicate that couples who describe their marriage as «egalitarian» are more likely to classify it as a happy one than those who describe their marriage as «traditional.»

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

Catholic canon law declared that the mutual consent of the couple, rather than the will and manipulations of powerful parents, was the defining essence of marriage.

Growth Counseling for Mid-Years Couples has something to say about marriages which are already more than a few years old.

Many experts both within and outside of the church think that there is much we can do to help couples and modern societies learn to hold together genuine covenantal love (a much stronger concept than that of romantic love) with the economic, kinship, networking and child - rearing aspects of marriage.

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.

Our point is that on the whole the nuclear mother - father team in intact first marriages does a better job of raising children than do single parents, stepparents or unmarried couples.

When couples show up to marriage counseling with intimacy problems, you can almost always be sure than one or the other has departed from the proper perspective and begun using their spouse or using seex as a bargaining chip for power or control in the relationship.

Furthermore, surveys show that couples who describe their marriage as «egalitarian» are more likely to classify it as a happy one than those who describe their marriage as «traditional.»

MP David Burrowes, chair of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, led the parliamentary opposition to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, and more than 600,000 people signed a petition led by the Coalition for Marriage against the Bill when it was first proposed in 2012.

It has been known and experienced in the lives of countless happily married couples across the millennia, and perhaps nowhere more than in marriages lived under the banner of Christianity, whose Founder pronounced the intimacy of man and wife to be a blessed thing.

«DOMA instructs all federal officials, and indeed all persons with whom same - sex couples interact, including their own children, that their marriage is less worthy than the marriages of others,» Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court.

Perhaps; though the sceptic might still argue that here one is looking not at the impact of vows, but at those couples who have contrived to hold together through a certain level of psychological stability supported by sufficient conditions of external security.Let us allow the sceptic to press his point: can one really do more than hope for permanence in marriage?

It helps enliven mid-years marriages for couples to find an exciting shared challenge which is much bigger than their relationship.

Once DOMA is overturned as well as traditional marriage state laws, more and more churches, than already exist, will open their doors to gay couples with no strings attached.

A recent question is whether, if the couple request it, a marriage should be celebrated in church if one partner belongs to a religion other than Christianity.

If you use your lame argument for marriage definition than infertile straight couples should be denied a marriage license as well.

In marriage enrichment, mixed - age groups are usually more feasible than groups composed exclusively of mid-years couples.

Gary Smalley wrote in one of his books that «If a couple has been married for more than five years, any persistent disharmony in their marriage is usually attributable to the husband's lack of understanding and applying genuine love.»

In fact, I've known more than one Christian couple to break up early in their marriage because of major sexual repression issues that stemmed from the guilt associated with sex.

(Wait, they can disagree but only if it is to take a more strict rather than less strict view — the people who think one drink is sin are allow to say so where the couple who think sex outside of legal marriage isn't sin aren't allowed to say so.)

With this aim in mind, homosexual marriage and the right to adoption for same - sex couples appear as nothing more than a means for exploding the foundations of society, making possible all kinds of unions, finally liberated from an ancestral morality, and therefore definitively doing away with the very notion of sexual difference.

Clergy taking the Marriage Pledge are leaving the distasteful actions to the couple rather than doing that work themselves and getting their hands dirty.

Others, confused about essences and accidents, misconstrue the argument as entailing that infertile couples, the elderly, and adoptive parents have second - class marriages worthy of less dignity than those of their fertile peers.

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.

Also, I hear that the rights of registered partners are about equal to married couples in Sweden, so no need to worry about that in your case: — RRB - My parents are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, so I'm a little more optimistic about marriage than you are.

I left it alone for the first couple years of our marriage, choosing instead to foster love rather than bitterness around the dinner table.

As the study notes, «Without the institutionalized rules of marriage, cohabiting couples may perceive threats to their relationship earlier than married couples.»

In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.