Sentences with phrase «marriage work so»

Shepard had Bell on the first episode, and listeners got an inside look at their sweeter and more difficult moments, as well as exactly what makes the duo's marriage work so well (spoiler alert: There's a story about what Bell did when Shepard's dad was sick that will make your heart melt).

Not exact matches

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.

The self - help section promises me a hundred new ways to save my marriage, thin my thighs, succeed in business — if these work, why are there so many divorces, fat thighs, and business failures?

I don't know how our marriage is supposed to work when his family has made it so clear that they don't support it.

Caitlin Flanagan, with her «I'm so put upon because I work and keep house, but marriage is better for the children» thinking, and Sandra Tsing Loh, with her «Don't bother, you'll only get burned» bitterness, have (not surprisingly) missed the point that unsterilized marriage is a great adventure, one that opens your horizons to love beyond self - satisfaction.

Perhaps legal plural marriage would be a bit difficult to work, with property laws and so on, but if you just want to live together and share your life, go to it.

I am not so sure that the traditional form of committment like marriage is working for many people and certainly the roles have changed in so many ways.

I see that power at work in pastoral care for those so alienated from each other in faltering marriages that the one can only recoil from the offered hand of the other.

And isn't it all just so sad, and if only we didn't have this American political / legal system of marriage it wouldn't be working out in such a devastating way for «the suffering spouse,» would it?

So from the beginning, Dan has been a big advocate for not taking our marriage for granted, but rather working on it every day.

His marriage was in shambles and the pace of his work was so tough that King spent many nights without any sleep.

In my work as a licensed marriage and family therapist, I hear so many patients talk about their fears of seeing family during the holidays.

This method or strategy may well be how her marriage works — and if so, lovely — but it's not necessarily biblical: in fact.

The growth counselor's function is to help such persons as they work through their resistance to bury a dead relationship; uncouple without infighting so as to avoid further hurt to each other and to their children; agree on a plan for the children that will be best for the children's mental health; work through the ambivalent feelings that usually accompany divorce — guilt, rage, release, resentment, failure, joy, loss — so that each person's infected grief wound can heal; discover what each contributed to the disintegration of their relationship; learn the relationship - building and love - nurturing skills which each will need either to enjoy creative singlehood or to establish a better marriage.

So, what we are seeing is that a range of economic, cultural, and civic changes in American life have all conspired to weaken marriage in poor and working - class communities across the United States.

I have had seasons for my marriage, for my work, for my processing, for my mothering, for my relationships, for my writing, and so of course, I've had them for my journey with Christ.

Unfortunately, people who «think of themselves as married» not only refuse the obligations of real marriage but demand all of its cultural privileges; because rationalization is so much work, they require other people to support them in it.

Not just in parenting my children (so far, the greatest crucible for me yet, the greatest refining) but in my relationships, in my prayer, in my marriage, in my work — and I don't think I'm alone in this.

I got myself to the therapist and asked Joe to go too, so we could work on the emotional chasm in our marriage.

But working - class families, who in the not - so - distant past enjoyed a strong marriage culture and steady work, are fragile.

Some couples work out personal covenants or contracts — often in writing so that there'll be no misunderstanding — before the wedding or at regular intervals during a marriage.

For example, the minister may recommend marriage counseling (or offer it himself, if he is so trained), help the person work through his grief, or refer him for medical assistance with his depression, as the person's needs may indicate.

Marriage is so much more than just something that everybody does at some point when they grow up and sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't.

All the love and trust and intimacy we had worked so hard to build for the last four months was called into question and our marriage was shaken to its very core.

So I have learned it's not really whether marriage is working on it's own.

My husband and I gave up TV / computers (except during working hours) so that we could work on understanding and communcating with each other and make our marriage better / stronger.

Many couples with relatively healthy marriages are working to make them more so — more satisfying and fulfilling for themselves and their children.

But we can at least analyze the kinds of love that are needed by every child, and we can see the ways that the culture has organized to meet those needs, needs which, when driven deeply enough, necessitate the wisdom and the sanctity of a monogamous marriage and a faithful living together as far as possible so that the full work of parenting can be done.

As Sarah put it in a couples» sharing group, «Before the children came, we had something going; but then we both got so wrapped up in other things we didn't work at our marriage, at least not very often.»

But we are committed to investing in our marriage in this way, and so we make it work, even if it's a shared dessert at home after our daughter goes to sleep or a walk at the park with her in a stroller while we talk.

So you decided you needed to become more feminine because it worked in your marriage, you have decided that that's what's wrong with women today.

But I do wonder, then, why so many people advocate for working through infidelity to «save» a marriage when I can't think of anyone in his or her right mind who would say the same about physical abuse.

I am presently living and working in a different culture which bases marriage and being together as a societal and emotionally stable state to be in; the values and expectations just seem to be so different, and where interestingly, private life really is a private affair and not some kind of «peep show» as in out Western culture of show and tell all as much as possible on Television and Films.

So much of marriage, and life, is about sitting with uncomfortable feelings and not reaching for the quick fix that won't work in the long run.

We both were cheated on in our marriages and he is very gun - shy so this works for both of us for the time being.

All of which would make me sad if I weren't so excited by what Susan and I are working on — models to make marriage work better for those who want to marry while acknowledging that marriage isn't for everyone (and that's OK — who wants to get «caught up in the hoopla» a la Kim Kardashian)-- and that divorce isn't a failure.

But there's nothing wrong in acknowledging that for some of us — perhaps the majority of us — a marriage that works happily through the parenting years is all we desire, and that dissolving a marriage after that isn't a failure or a result of not understanding what «hard work» and «commitment» is, phrases that so often get attached to those who divorce.

Doyle isn't the only one who thinks it all rests on the woman's shoulders, or so I learned by reading the illuminating book Making Marriage Work by Kristin Celello, newly out in paperback; I now understand why we consider marriage as something to «work» on (although it wasn't always seen that way; it used to be a «duty») and why saving a marriage is «women's work» — that's how it has been presented to women for Marriage Work by Kristin Celello, newly out in paperback; I now understand why we consider marriage as something to «work» on (although it wasn't always seen that way; it used to be a «duty») and why saving a marriage is «women's work» — that's how it has been presented to women for decaWork by Kristin Celello, newly out in paperback; I now understand why we consider marriage as something to «work» on (although it wasn't always seen that way; it used to be a «duty») and why saving a marriage is «women's work» — that's how it has been presented to women for marriage as something to «work» on (although it wasn't always seen that way; it used to be a «duty») and why saving a marriage is «women's work» — that's how it has been presented to women for decawork» on (although it wasn't always seen that way; it used to be a «duty») and why saving a marriage is «women's work» — that's how it has been presented to women for marriage is «women's work» — that's how it has been presented to women for decawork» — that's how it has been presented to women for decades.

Marriage is hard work relationships aren't easy as humans are so diverse.

Does age alone make a marriage would work, and if so, why?

I have been unhappy about my marriage for the past 3 to 5 years, mainly because my wife is often grumpy, in a bad mood and spends so much time on her own in the evenings when she comes from work.

In addition to co-authoring The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, I have an essay in Nothing But The Truth So Help Me God: 73 Women on Life's Transitions, which you can buy here, and in Knowing Pains: Women on Love, Sex and Work in Our 40s, which you can buy here (all proceeds go toward the Breast Cancer Fund).

When I asked her recently how it's going, she laughed (something she does often and genuinely) and said that she and her friend, author Ann Patchett, whose surgeon husband is 16 years older, always say that if they can't make their marriages — a second for both — work with these men who so clearly adore them, then no one can make marriage work.

I love all of Dani's writing, and this memoir is no exception: in short pieces, Dani evokes so much about long marriage, about the sometimes confounding way memory works, about life itself.

I don't know why I'm working so hard at this whole marriage and parenting thing when I could find someone who suits the me that I am now better and have the kids every other weekend.

Societal pressure to be married and stay married, and to honor a marital commitment «until death» no matter what — even when a marriage isn't working anymore — is so strong that it influences «a lot of the dynamics that lead to adultery.»

I had two children from a previous marriage that I had sole co of, I had a good job, remarried to a poor woman raised her child as my own, as well, I got hurt at work had a few surgeries, my injuries became a disability so something's had to go, house paid for, new cars traded for older ones that were paid for as well, and she's gone!!

The real problem is that all that work will only go so far because the traditional marriage model itself is broken.

And they are not merely «trying marriage on» either, which doesn't work anyway, as Susan Pease Gadoua and I detail in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels; cohabitation is viewed as second - tier to the «real thing» so you can't live together and experience what being married marriage on» either, which doesn't work anyway, as Susan Pease Gadoua and I detail in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels; cohabitation is viewed as second - tier to the «real thing» so you can't live together and experience what being married Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels; cohabitation is viewed as second - tier to the «real thing» so you can't live together and experience what being married is like.

A few years ago I made the explicit decision to structure my days and workflow so I didn't need to work in the evenings because to the surprise of no one, working every night was seriously detrimental to my marriage!