«Happily married people do a little better than single people,» says Eli Finkel, professor of social psychology at Northwestern University, «but single people are better off than
people in bad marriages.»
Not exact matches
im glad no - one believes
in demons - the devil or god — and they try to rationalise everything — and discredit the bible — just shows me where we are at
in the holy book — see if i remember, the end times come when «scorners and scoffers abound» when — wrong is called right and right is called wrong — and
people would be married and given
in marriage as
in the daysd of noah --- sodom and gammorah had gay issues
badly - im just gonna laugh and alaugh and laugh when ya «ll burn - do me a favor — at least read the bible once — see what it says before you — go against it.
He repeats his description of the ways
bad charity (the Great Society) drove out good charity (religiously based groups): It reinterpreted the causes of poverty as exclusively material and environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers of poor
people with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role of volunteers
in favor of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and
marriage.
You might be a
bad person for not speaking out against genocide
in Darfur, but you'll never have to worry about infidelity
in marriage.
A strong
marriage relationship is constructed by two
people who are willing to work at it, year -
in and year - out, «for better, for
worse, for richer, for poorer,
in sickness and
in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.»
A society
in which married couples are expected to be faithful to their marital vows «for better or
worse, for richer or poorer,
in sickness and
in health» is a society that assumes all
people, regardless of class, can experience
marriage as a «school of love»» no matter what economic hardships may confront them.
Groups can pressure, judge, shame and blame
people into things that are unhealthy — like staying
in a
bad marriage out of fear of being shamed (not to mention communities that are dangerous cults, but that's a different conversation).
It's up to the
people in it to make it good or
bad; the
marriage license doesn't guarantee anything except access to legal protections.
A lot of
people just stay
in bad marriages because they can't figure out the situation.
People also ask me, «Is it
bad for my children if I stay
in an unhappy
marriage?
A few
people come straight out and ask, some
people wander around the topic, asking if it «gets
in the way of your
marriage,» and I've even run into a few
people who insinuated that I was a
bad wife and mother because I was putting my child's needs before my husband's needs, which
in addition to causing my husband pain, was giving my child a
bad example.
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
There had never be a time when the southerners have culture, inter-trading, religion, inter
marriage with the so call Arewa
people of the northern Nigeria
in the history, The
worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past, let split the country we know the real map of Biafra and Oodua
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But some sociologists, such as Millsom Henry - Waring of the University of Melbourne, have given warning that electronic forms of communication
in general — and digital - dating services
in particular — are gradually changing society's conception of relationships and
marriage for the
worse by encouraging
people to view partners as commodities that can simply be traded
in for better versions at the click of a computer mouse.
People would fall
in love, lasting
marriages would happen,
bad marriages would end.
Second,
people who are
in marriages that are either
bad or average might be at increased risk of divorce, because of increased access to new partners.
Some critics have found fault
in Grace and Frankie for its supposedly regressive stance on sensitive topics, and those criticisms are not wholly unfounded, but perspective is important here: Robert and Sol are by no means
bad people, and the show does not portray them as such, but to leave your wife for a man after 40 years of
marriage would be shocking to say the least, and that bitterness, that sense of betrayal, is conveyed beautifully and poignantly by Fonda and Tomlin.
Anyone who thinks
marriage isn't about two
people doing everything he or she can to support the other — or
worse, claims that either partner's achievements are cheapened or their accomplishments invalidated because his or her partner supported him or her
in reaching their goal — has absolutely no idea how a
marriage works.
Most
people don't want to stay
in a
bad marriage until the plan is over.
Many survivors have turned to drugs and alcohol and suffered
marriage or relationship breakdowns because of «survivors» guilt» and,
in the tragic
worst case scenario, at least 3
people have reportedly committed suicide as a result.
Some
people end up
in very
bad marriages, perhaps having the strength to leave such a
marriage is not a
bad thing.
I have not filed because, for one I am still
in love with him (as odd as that sounds) and second I have fought so hard for this
marriage to work that I feel if he wants out so
badly and I am such a horrible
person then he needs to shoulder that decision.
That
person is going to make them feel temporarily better, but affairs are a
bad remedy for boredom because they return no good information about what's really wrong
in the
marriage.
Very often, the pain and suffering of a failed
marriage bring out the
worst in the best of
people.
There is no such thing as one «
bad»
person in a
marriage.
It can be difficult to see your
marriage come to an end, but even
worse is being
in a situation where you give up your career and dedicate your life to one
person only to end up divorced with no form of income.
People also ask me, «Is it
bad for my children if I stay
in an unhappy
marriage?
People who are unhappy
in their
marriages may turn to mental health professionals for help, unaware therapy could
in fact make things
worse.
The fear of how
bad the divorce will be can keep
people in unhealthy
marriages.
In fact, many
people have told me that their so - called
marriage therapy even made things
worse.
And, as a result,
people end up feeling their
marriages are really
in bad shape and not worth preserving.
If you are, both
people need to come
in because you both create the quality of the
marriage or relationship for better or
worse.
This 2002 study by University of Chicago sociologist Linda Waite challenged what is termed the «divorce assumption,» that is, «that a
person stuck
in a
bad marriage has two choices: stay married and be miserable or get a divorce and become happier.»
Many
people, especially those who have had
bad experiences with standard
marriage counseling
in the past, may think there is no help for them.