Sentences with phrase «of making marriage work»

Don't talk just with persons who side with you against your partner but talk with couples who love each other and recognize about the challenge of making a marriage work when there are differences.

I picked up John Gottman's The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work after years of curiosity.

This blog post is part of my running series on marriage, based on the research and writing of Dr. John Gottman's famous book, Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work.

I often recommend Dr. John Gottman's most famous book, Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work, to any of my clients interested in improving their relationship, married or not.

I often recommend Dr. John Gottman's most famous book, Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work, to any of my clients interested in improving their relationship, whether they're single, partnered, married, or divorced.

That does not leave many couples in this situation with much hope of making their marriage work.

This is by far one of the most important elements of making your marriage work again.

In his piece, he discusses generosity in relationships, alluding to Dr. Gottman's research on Turning Towards Bids in a quote from The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work.

In his book «The Seven principles of Making a Marriage Work,» famed relationship researcher John Gottman (the dude who can predict whether a couple will get divorced with something like 95 % accuracy after watching them interact for only a few minutes) cites «enhancing your love maps» as the first principle.

We'd like to separate the fact from the fiction, using Dr. Gottman's The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work to explode the eight most common myths about relationships.

Dr. Gottman describes the details of each step in his book The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work.

According to Dr. John Gottman, author of the book The Seven Principles of Making a Marriage Work, creating a lasting marriage is surprisingly simple.

The Seven Principals of Making Marriage Work Dr. John Gottman, Ph.D, and Nan Silver Three Rivers Press, 1999

Rebounding from the pain and suffering of a failed marriage, second time couples, ever hopeful that this time will be different, easily forget that after the courtship comes the day - to - day business of making a marriage work — the daily grind.

But they also believe the best chance of making a marriage work is to first establish their own identity and independence.

Surprisingly this excess of possibly objectionable material is truly unfortunate because What Happens In Vegas attempts to offer a clear message about the importance of making a marriage work, no matter what the obstacles.

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.

Not exact matches

Make hard work your favorite words, whether at work or at home or in your marriage or wherever your definition of success takes you.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Given the close association of the sexes in modern working life, men or women need to observe delicate respect for the commitments of married colleagues; carelessness here could make them responsible for the collapse of a marriage and the destruction of a family.

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?

Building on whatever beginnings were made before marriage, newlyweds are working to finish the foundation upon which a lifetime of growing intimacy can be built.

At his New York Times blog, Ross Douthat has been doing a yeoman's work, making me almost regret my critique of his essay on gay marriage by offering a patient, sophisticated case for preserving the «ideal» of heterosexual marriage.

Derek says the themes on the album include battling cynicism («Everything Will Change»), coming to terms with who God made you to be («Eye of the Hurricane»), Jesus» nearness to those who are disenfranchised («Closer Than You Think»), unity among the divisions of the church («A Place at Your Table»), the hard work of marriage («The Vow»), and God's great love («Love Part 3»).

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.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

In less prosperous and less romantic times, Christians have viewed marriage in more pragmatic terms as God's good gift of providing a partner with whom to work and live and make love.

But while his outstanding books on marriage, morality and spirituality gradually became known in the English - speaking world, and his series of works on the post-Conciliar Church made him a hero to committed Catholics, few knew of Dietrich's early writings against fascism and Nazism, written in German but never translated.

However, as we look around today and ask what conditions seem on the whole to make for happiness in marriage, we are driven to the curious conclusion that the more «civilized people become the less capable they seem of lifelong happiness with one partner» (p. 135) For a marriage to work requires that there «be a feeling of complete equality on both sides; there must be no interference with mutual freedom; there must be the most complete physical and mental intimacy; and there must be a certain similarity in regard to standards of value» (p. 143).

I made this yesterday for my husband to take to work and received a lot of love back for it — including a proposal of marriage: — RRB -.

How much of a happiness should be there to make the 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.

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.

Society and cultural norms and history have made marriage something that seems totally normal, when in reality, only certain types of people and certain types of personalities are going to be naturally able to make marriage work.

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

For the people who want to make divorce harder, shaming couples into «working harder,» well, I think all of us can agree that Glennon Doyle Melton worked pretty damn hard to salvage her marriage.

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.

One of them copped to initiating an affair thinking that maybe if they could just get it «out of their system» then they might be able to make the marriage work in other aspects.

-- by embracing the idea of asking less of our marriage and re-envisioning new ways to make it work, like living apart together.

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..

asking less of our marriage and re-envisioning new ways to make it work, like living apart together.

Astro: If they go through the process of asking whether marriage is working for them without the fear and shame that the sacred cows produce, they'll still probably have some soul searching to do and maybe a lot of pain to go through, but it would be less than it would be otherwise and they'll probably end up in a happier place if they can make that decision free of that fear.

Without wanting to pry, I wanted to ask Marco about how he made his marriage work when he and his family were thousands of miles away from each other.

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!

It may be the stress of the childhood relationships to divorced parents, the expectation that marriages can easily end in divorce, or the loss of a close and confiding relationship with two parents who have made a marriage work that account for these findings.

«It takes a lot of work to make a marriage work and the most important thing is to bite your tongue.»

After being happily married for 40 years, Dr. Phil shares some of his thoughts about what makes a marriage work.