Sentences with phrase «of having a happy marriage»

Some of us have happy marriages, some do not.

«Married in 1963, I do remember the joy of discovering one another, the concerns that parenting together can bring, the challenge of working together, the mixed feelings of having an empty nest, the wonder of being grandparents, the delight of having a happy marriage, and the sorrow of having my spouse die.»

Specifically, how they conduct their romantic lives before they tie the knot is linked to their odds of having happy marriages.

Not exact matches

And some of them would send their daughters for marriage between that age to elder men just to be able to support the rest of the family with the marriage money... Maybe you being in America living fully covered from A to Z know nothing about how poorer countries live and think all are as happy as you are?!

From the beginnings of survey research, people have been asked whether theirs is a happy marriage, and what percentage of marriages do they think are happy.

With the Latest News now out about the nation's largest Black organization endorsing Gay marriage and calling for an end to the hate and citing the 14th Amendment, Coretta S. King, wife of the very famous Black civil rights leader, would have been immensely happy!

This is especially true of the «fortunate old» — those who are healthy and surrounded by loved ones, who have a spouse and a happy marriage, and thus less need for the social supports that the church provides.

Even though I have seen some wondrously happy married couples, most of the marriages I have worked with were struggling to find even vestiges of joy.

Nothing can make me happier than seeing those whom I love be happy and free from the pain that they had been under for the last 3.5 years... I do deeply regret that I hid from the public the abuse that I have lived with for most of our marriage and I ask your forgiveness... Three months ago Saeed told me things he demanded I must do to promote him in the eyes of the public that I simply could not do any longer.

Gay marriage hurts no one, and would make that segment of of our nation happy.

Richard Stein, an ordinand in his final year of training for ministry, described the process as an enriching one that led him to embrace a more evangelical theology than the one he had arrived with: «I came into college with a fairly open view towards homosexuality, and even said I'd be happy to perform gay marriages.

I was surprised to find that very few of the couples I studied wanted marriages like their parents had had, even when they realized that their parents had been very happy in those marriages.»

One of Wallerstein's surprising and encouraging findings was that even people who had suffered terrible abuse or neglect in childhood could still form happy and satisfying «rescue» marriages — marriages that healed the hurts of the past and enabled people to raise their children lovingly and well.

All had been married for at least nine years (rates of divorce peak in the seventh year of marriage), had at least one child and had marriages that both spouses considered happy, lasting and good.

It is not a happy marriage of ideas, and it has led to much confusion.

Most of us who are content with home and family have happier marriages!

And the proportion of marriages that are «very happy» has been stable.»

This is a happy and inspiring story — the only sad thing is that the Riches are unable to recount that the various battles — for example to ensure that marriage is once again established as the foundation of community life, or to ensure protection for unborn babies from abortion — had been won.

Rockefeller's subsequent divorce of his wife and 1963 marriage to the much - younger Margaretta «Happy» Murphy, a mother of four who had recently divorced her husband, cemented in the minds of many family - minded Americans an unpleasant nexus between loose morals and weak support for the military; it marked the forging of a large wedge of voters that now consciously identified itself as conservative and would grow to include Democrats as well as Republicans.

However, you are confusing two very different subjects — would you be happy with outlawing of all gay marriages, if not a word about it had ever been uttered from a pulpit?

I'm proud that despite the age of divorce, we had an incredibly happy and successful marriage for all that time.

I pray that the couple will have a blessed and happy marriage for the rest of their lives.

Whereas A Sort of Life is content to report, «I married and I was happy,» the biographer tells the extraordinary story of courtship, wedding and early marriage, as well as suggesting what would undo that union in the end.

When the divorce revolution took off with the advent of no - fault divorce in the 1960s, experts predicted that marriages overall would be happier because all the unhappy people would get divorced.

An eternity of happy marriage and sensuous pleasures would reward the righteous.

If you were happily married and that marriage led to an increased sense of well - being, would you want to know if your spouse was cheating on you, even if that knowledge would make you less happy and act in perhaps unhealthy ways?

And it's kind of silly that a gay rights groups would be angry at Chick - Fil - A for donating food to an anti-gay marriage group; if the food had been donated to a pro-gay marriage group, they would be totally silent / happy.

Instead, the list of family values, apart from these two issues, was a set of very general propositions, ranging from «respecting one's parents» (2nd) to «having a happy marriage» (6th) to «having nice things» (26th).

He had hopes that the operation would allow them once more to be «as close together as they had been» for the many happy years of their marriage.

I love the sleepover bits of marriage but would be much happier if we could have I Love Lucy style beds.

We'd love to read your own stories of long and happy marriages, it's been to little of that in my life.

I'm talking about a man who will cry happy tears just talking about my mom after 46 years of marriage, a man who touches the hearts of anyone he meets, and a man that can rock and roll deep into the wee hours of the morning, long after his only son has gone to bed.

It has a robust, feisty flavor thanks to the happy marriage of tastes between...

After 15 years of marriage, my father took over as the head cook of the household, and both my parents couldn't be happier now that they've reached 25 years!

It has a robust, feisty flavor thanks to the happy marriage of tastes between the nutty rice and fresh, well - pickled cabbage kimchi.

When AR is extended, we have to hope for a happy marriage, because they will be joined at the hip for most of the length of the contract.

Then research by Philip and Carolyn Cowan indicated that if both partners wanted the pregnancy — and didn't slide back into traditional gender roles once the baby was born — the initial shock of new parenthood disappeared and their marriage would be back on a happy marital track.

She also has advice for keeping your marriage happy and healthy, staying strong and optimistic as a parent, and straight - up good advice for being a stay - at - home parent of young children.

I know divorce isn't always horrible, especially if you can consciously uncouple (whether you have kids or not); I don't believe that marriages must last forever to be happy, healthy and successful; and I certainly don't know Gwyneth or Chris and the circumstances of their partnership and desire to end it.

The funny thing about marriage (well, there are many, but let's narrow it down) is that lots of people seem to have a «secret» that will magically transform everyone's marriage into a manageable, doable and supposedly happy union.

Nor is it a «failed marriage» — the 14 years my former husband and I were together had many happy moments and created two amazing sons, now young men, whom we were able to co-parent well because we were kind to and respectful of each other (well, most of the time).

I know the secret is to be happy with yourself and I am lucky in that I always have been — probably one of the biggest issues in my last marriage because he wanted me to MAKE him happy.

It was also the time of Father Knows Best and Leave it to Beaver on TV, when women weren't supposed to have any aspirations beyond making sure they had a happy and satisfying marriage.

And we know that a certain percentage of people who engage in infidelity say they have happy marriages.

While no one can guarantee that your marriage will be as happy and healthy as you hope — or expect — it to be, wouldn't you feel better committing to all those years together if you had a better idea of where your marriage was going?

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.

I can tell some of your commenters don't know very many conservative Catholics, evangelicals, and Mormons, but I can assure you all the ones I've ever known (which is a LOT of them) are very happy about their decisions to remain virgins and even for some, unkissed, until marriage (as a Catholic I don't believe there it is morally superior to abstain from kissing prior to marriage, but I respect the right of others to choose to do so).

Astro: I think we do know why, because if the narrative of who you choose matters and choosing differently could be a successful way to get yourself happier, it would allow people a legitimate reason to end their marriage and try again.

About 93 percent of us say faithfulness is a must to make a marriage successful — even more so than having a happy sex life, sharing household chores, and having similar passions and interests.

Americans have many goals for their own marriages and those of others: We want marriage to last, we want children to enjoy living with their own two married parents, we want these marriages to be happy, and we don't want unhappily married people trapped in miserable lives.