Sentences with phrase «so than marriage»

There is a tendency for those of us mental health providers to (not always, but often) be more directive, especially among LCSW's, more so than Marriage and Family Therapists — especially since LCSW's tend (again, not always) to lean more towards a systemic, cognitive - behavioral and / or «case management» school of thought.

Far more - so than marriage, a new job, or a trip around the world.

Not exact matches

«In some states, the courts will agree to tack on prior years of cohabitating... so it's viewed as a longer - term marriage than the legal date,» Kauffman said.

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.

And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says the last time his conservative Christian movement saw so many victories at the state level — where many legislatures are busy passing new abortion restrictions - was in 2004, when more than a dozen states adopted same - sex marriage bans.

So I think your blog might qualify... though again, it is more of a blog about parenting and marriage than about Scripture and theology, and Paul's is quite a bit like Hyatt's, in that it is about leadership and influence.

So that the marriage union betwixt Christ and you is more than a bare notion or apprehension of your mind; for it is a special, spiritual, and real union: it is an union betwixt the nature of Christ, God and man, and you; it is a knitting and closing, not only of your apprehension with a Saviour, but also of your soul with a Saviour.

Now as the soul is more excellent than the body, and admits of far greater joy, so this spiritual union brings in more astonishing delights and ravishments than any other marriage relationship is capable of.

So the «institutional church» is no more the necessary cause of what the naked pastor describes than marriage is the cause of divorce.

If heterosexual marriage is so darn important, then why don't they spend as much if not more time encouraging it, than they do discouraging same - gender marriage?

A man in his middle years described his hopes for a weekend couples retreat: «I hope we can achieve that good, close feeling and learn to help others do better than we've done — we've wasted so much time in our marriage!»

To make the latter claim is to run counter to the approach of much popular and well - intentioned Catholic thought, thought that has tended to so exalt the goodness of sex that it has often seemed to imply that marriage is for sex rather than sex being for family.

Second, restricting marriage by sex is no less egregious than doing so by race.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

It was once unheard of for a blind woman with a guide dog to be refused a bus ride — this is not uncommon now, we have the beginning of Sharia in the UK, we have men with more than one legal wife in the UK, we have first cousin marriages causing terrible illnesses and so on.

Marriage has been redefined so as to serve, rather than constrain, adult desire.

More than a few «conservatives» have endorsed same - sex marriage, and even invoked conservative principles in doing so.

If the majority of Americans support Gay marriage than so be it.

So woman's status being more determined by her being a virgin than it would be for a man in that culture and that affecting to a large degree her ability to attract a marriage partner.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

My own analysis is that the Church, rather than any hierarchy of ends, now wishes to emphasise their intimate connection and interdependence, especially so as to help overcome the modern mindset that marriage can be truly fruitful and «fulfilling» independently of the children who may be born of and nourish any genuine conjugal love.

Before we get to the trickiest sexual questions, based upon what many people are already doing, our book deals with marriage in the context of friendship, men's and women's roles and responsibilities and how to deal with sin so that marriage gets better rather than bitter.

Nothing can produce hate faster than marriage — all the more because persons want so much with each other.

A strong marriage is built on foundation of love, service, and grace — in essence, a list of actions that speak so much louder than words.

Those men who have the resources to support more than one woman should be able to do so legally within the marriage and family system.

So, speaking out against Gay marriage, which is a contentious issue right now is workse than blacklisting someone for their use of free speach?

N.T. Wright no more likened same - sex «marriage» advocates to Nazis and Communists than I am likening her to a planetary body in the following analogy: as the moon orbits the earth, so the mind of Ms. Moon orbits an empty space devoid of logic.

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.

Among the deceptions of marriage is the experience that what should so uniquely unite can separate; it can be filled with tensions and disappointment rather than harmony and peace.

(Wait, they can disagree but only if it is to take a more strict rather than less strict view — the people who think one drink is sin are allow to say so where the couple who think sex outside of legal marriage isn't sin aren't allowed to say so.)

So while it is true that the signatories want more than gay marriage ¯ it is part of a larger struggle ¯ they want gay marriage.

Like Jones makes clear in his marriage manifesto: it's so much easier to get into a sacramental marriage than to get out of a legal one.

It also looks so vibrant:) Marriage nowadays has become a totally different «commitment» than a couple of decades ago and while some people do nt like the concept at all anymore, some others still love the idea of bonding for a life long.

Also, I hear that the rights of registered partners are about equal to married couples in Sweden, so no need to worry about that in your case: — RRB - My parents are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, so I'm a little more optimistic about marriage than you are.

A marriage is something so romantic and i believe if you have found the right person and it feels right... nothing more beautiful than a wedding!

And while roughly 88 percent of the 165 million bottles of wine the southern region of France produces each year is indeed rosé, Provence is so much more than just the home of world - class pink juice and a dissolved celebrity marriage.

so we're like not official but we already are sorta dating and sorta have spending life together plans and sorta have marriage plans part of it is that like her sister would prob go off the deep end more if we announced it but her parents joke about the idea more than we've actually discussed it so it's like a weird pseudo thing

So I don't think that because you are involved in an interracial marriage, I don't think that it follows that you can't be a racist any more or that race can't be a consideration, any more than if you're a husband married to a wife that you can't get involved in domestic violence.

With more singles than ever, a 50 percent or so divorce rate, a tenfold increase in cohabitation and a growing number of people questioning whether marriage is still relevant, our nosy relatives and family friends can't help themselves from asking why we're not getting with the program.

So, of course, I spoke to the Rev. Todhunter, too Again, the full details of that conversation will be included in The New I Do, but here's a taste of what he's observed — couples that celebrate 50 or so years of marriage and see commitment as «staying together no matter what» have an entirely different marriage than those that see commitment as a chance for each to grow, with the loving support of the otheSo, of course, I spoke to the Rev. Todhunter, too Again, the full details of that conversation will be included in The New I Do, but here's a taste of what he's observed — couples that celebrate 50 or so years of marriage and see commitment as «staying together no matter what» have an entirely different marriage than those that see commitment as a chance for each to grow, with the loving support of the otheso years of marriage and see commitment as «staying together no matter what» have an entirely different marriage than those that see commitment as a chance for each to grow, with the loving support of the other.

Marriage is a moment of subordination and women, more so than men, subordinate themselves and their careers to their relationship, their children, and the careers of their husbands.»

Instead of wringing our hands about so - called gray divorces and seeing those marriages as failures, perhaps we should consider marriage as more «till the kids part» than «till death do us part.»

Because they were denied access to legal marriage for so long, many LGBQ people married for the first time at older ages than heterosexual couples, often after living together for many years, making their cohabiting and married relationships pretty similar.

So rather than focus on the many issues — sex, marriage, infidelity, drugs and alcohol, unemployment, nonmarital childbirth etc. — the book addresses, I want to explore the idea of community as a force of good (and sometimes bad).

Women who enter marriage in their late twenties or after are more likely than their counterparts who do so earlier to have completed 16 years of schooling or more, by a wide margin.

That wasn't enough to keep my marriage together, so obviously wives need a few more skills than that.

... Acceptance of polyamory or plural marriage would have to include women having the freedom to marry or be with more than one, and it is likely that just as monogamous marriage has evolved to be more egalitarian so would plural marriage when it is out of the shadows and no longer hidden.

I am pretty sure that for the first 15 years of our marriage, he would PRETEND (I think) to be sick when I was, and then of course he was ALWAYS sicker than me, so I still had to get him things.

Denied marriage for so long, same - sex couples tend to view cohabitation through a different lens than heteros.