Sentences with phrase «n't make this marriage work»

The societal narrative is that something must be wrong with you if you can't make your marriage work — you're not committed enough, you're not willing to do the hard work, you're deeply flawed or incredibly selfish, etc. — instead of acknowledging that, hey, sometimes people make mistakes.

Sharing that she and fellow author and friend Ann Patchett both had older husbands who absolutely adored them (Patchett's second husband is 16 years older than she), she said they often joked that if they couldn't make their marriages work, well, no marriage would work.

You can't make this marriage work... not as a marriage anyway.

Reading Dr. John Gottman's popular book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work won't make your marriage work unless you actually apply the principles.

The deal was supposed to be that although we could not make the marriage work that our children would keep whatever sense of normalcy that we could give them!!

Couples today know the hard facts about marriage: many have divorced parents or at least know another couple who couldn't make their marriage work, despite starting out in love.

Not exact matches

It could also have a positive effect on womens» employment and careers by making it easier to balance work with home and childcare obligations — since men in heterosexual marriages still often aren't doing their share on that front.

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.

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.

My life was turned upside down a couple years back in a situation that led to the dissolution of my marriage, I also work in animal rescue, which brings me constant anxiety that animals I know and care about may not make it, and frequently the actual crushing pain of losing them.

Those who have followed the debate over same - sex marriage understand very clearly that law and culture ought to work together to promote and preserve families and communities; we should apply the same vigor to strengthening economic policies that make it easier for people not to sin.

If they are all adult and do not engage in the act of marrying children, and if plural marriage works for them and make thems happy, what possible difference does it make to anyone else?

If your analogy were to work in the same way, you would have to make marriage the third corner — husband, wife, marriage NOT husband, wife, inlaws.

This is very far from being a new analysis: Family and Youth Concern, still battling away, was doing pioneering work over 30 years ago (for which its founder, Valerie Riches, was deservedly made a papal dame), pointing out how disastrous for society the undermining of the traditional family based on marriage - not least by successive governments - really was.

The actors announced their break - up on social media on Sunday night, writing that they tried to make their marriage work for a long time and are disappointed they could not succeed.

But this part of her argument raises another question: If people's love for their children can motivate them to make heroic efforts to be good parents after divorce, couldn't the same amount of effort be expended to make many of the marriages work in the first place?

I am not saying that marriages between people of different faiths never work at all, or that simply being a «Christian» guarantees that we will make good choices in our marriage or that we will be exempt from divorce.

Making our marriage work for the kids was not enough.

i don't think he's in the business of making our marriage work by me turning off my brain or my wife turning off hers.

They were making a very conscious decision and commitment to make it work instead of being blinded by a promise a good 50 percent of us can not keep — marriage until death.

I think there are a lot of things going on with people not able to make their marriages work.

That's true, and often it's the women who are told, implicitly or not, that it's their job to make their marriage work.

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.

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.

KatesWorld40 — I think anyone, female or male, who is continually disrespected in a marriage / relationship should look probably needs to leave (assuming attempts to work with the offending party to make things better hasn't worked).

If it is reasonable to tell someone how you think their possible divorce will affect you, family, and friends, then it is also reasonable to tell them when their difficult marriage is affecting others, or their unhappiness with their work, or that third child they're talking about starting (maybe you can't have any, or enough, or you have too many for your situation), or their «perfect» marriage (is it making your life look bad?)

I think to make a marriage work it takes two people to do that not one.

And the promotion of «traditional» marriage will continue to make people unhappy, first because there is no such thing as «traditional» marriage — marriage has been changing since humans created the concept — and second because the model doesn't work for about half of us, probably more as many people stay married in name only just to get health benefits, etc..

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.

But if we're really talking about - honest - to - goodness, down - and - dirty, I'm - committed - to - doing - what - it - takes - to - make - this - relationship - work commitment, then shouldn't a couple that takes commitment seriously be able to work through infidelity — in whatever incarnation it comes to them — and keep their marriage intact?

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!

If you are working on your marriage daily and communicating often, you will be more likely to know what your parenting boundaries look like and quicker to support your spouse on a decision that they've made regarding the kids, even if it's something that you haven't discussed yet.

Time crunch: The amount of time couples devoted to marriages in prior eras doesn't cut it today; now, you need to invest more to make it work.

So my question is, do you think a marriage or a relationship / friendship like that could work if both are open and upfront about the terms and boundaries of the relationship, and both are content to cohabitate (sic) in an arrangement like this because we make each other happy and we love each other in our own way, but we're not in love with each other?

I didn't feel like we had to work hard to make our marriage work.

The thought of working on my marriage while managing raging tantrums (my three - year - old, not me), a loud boy who asks four - hundred questions a day, a medical clinic and my parenting education gig, made me roll my eyes.

It has also helped my friendships and marriage by not trying to make everyone else in my life my listening partner — which was not working so well!

Hello every body my name is Cynthia Morgan, am from United Kingdom England, I just want to share my experience with the world on how Dr iayaryi, help me, I got my love back and saved my marriage... I was married for 3 years with 1kid and we lived happily until things started getting ugly and we had fights and argued almost every time... it got worse at a point that he filed for divorce... I tried my best to make him change his mind & stay with me because I love him so much and don't want to lose him but everything just didn't work out... he moved out of the house because it was a rented apartment and still went ahead to file for divorce... I pleaded and tried everything but still nothing worked.

It takes two committed people to make a marriage work, and your husband has broken his marriage vows by not fulfilling his responsibilities to be a partner who loves you as he loves himself.

Find out, and fix it, or accept that you probably don't have the right mindset to make a marriage work.

And why wouldn't we want to do something that was going to make our marriage work better?

Even though the CDU / CSU did not give in on same sex marriage and made only minor concessions on the issue of double citizenship, the SPD could enforce positions fostering its working class image.

The governor isn't the only one retailing bogus history last week: His Democratic primary opponent Cynthia Nixon told New York Magazine that Cuomo's work to pass marriage equality in 2011 was due to his having «a lot of big Republican donors who wanted the marriage issue to go away because they thought it was making the party look bad.»

I don't think it's ever a wrong time to advance fundamental rights for New Yorkers, and we plan to work with the governor to make marriage equality a reality here in New York.

So we'll invest in the early years, help put troubled families back on track, use a pupil premium to make sure kids from the poorest homes go to the best schools not the worst, recognise marriage in the tax system and, most of all, make sure that work really pays for every single person in our country

Even though I'd like to have a significant other, I can't even imagine what it would have been like trying to find jobs for two people that would allow us to live where we wanted without having a commuter marriage — which, although some people have made it work, isn't something I'm eager to try.

And why wouldn't we want to do something that was going to make our marriage work better?

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I have just been divorced after a marriage that lasted 41 years; he wanted out; liked women; other problems also; two sides to everything; no one is perfect; but I did want to try to make it work; counseling, etc. but he didn't.

Elena, Good response to the reporter... I don't know if the following is useful to you: I had a horrible marriage to an American woman who made my life a living hell, I worked hard to provide for her, we had a high standard of living and I worked from home, allowing her to stay at home with our children; but nothing was ever good enough for her.