Sentences with phrase «through failed marriages»

When Harville Hendrix writes about relationships, he discusses them not just as an educator and a therapist, but as a man who has himself been through a failed marriage.

These facts alone make him an unlikely romantic partner for me, given that I am a professional American woman in my mid-thirties, who has just come through a failed marriage and a devastating, interminable divorce, followed immediately by a passionate love affair that ended in sickening heartbreak.

However, finding myself coaching none other than my very own daughter through a failed marriage and subsequently divorce, through being a single parent and co-parenting without conflict, through dating and thank g - d her engagement has by far been the most moving experience in my life.

Not exact matches

I was going through a lot of anguish from a failing marriage and was becoming exceedingly frustrated with the «easy (but to me insufficient) answers» my church and my Christian faith were providing.

And without effectively working through why the marriage is failing, we are vulnerable to regrets down the road.

Twenty - two year old Onyinyechi Okegbulam has been murdered by her boyfriend for failing to agree to his marriage proposal after the later sponsored her through school...

Only two and a half years ago, the house - builder Keith Rocheville was overweight, unemployed and going through the bitter ending of a failed marriage.

«All through our date he spoke about his failed marriage,» she continued.

Marty and the Pod are put through the ringer by their arch-rival firm Kinsley - Johnson as part of the due diligence performed by MetroCapital for the pending merger; Jeannie does her best to keep Wes and the marriage at bay but fails to keep it a secret from Marty; April and Roscoe bond but Marty learns about Jeremiah's secret and receives shocking news from Monica.

Charting the fortunes and (mostly) misfortunes of Paul Giamatti's eponymous anti-hero, principally his three failed marriages, Lewis and novice screenwriter Michael Konyves have fashioned a busy, baggy flashback structure that races through some key plot points as it leaves others dangling, and never makes good on its literary opening gambit to tell the story as Barney's autobiography.

Singer's «good looks» are curiously absent from his film, but its featured characters read like a litany of the underprivileged and have bodies and faces to match: drug addicts, recidivist criminals, those from broken homes, failed marriages, existing outside of the social welfare network who have literally fallen through the cracks in the pavement.

With his father (Dustin Hoffman) by his side through four decades of misadventures and failed marriages, he boozes, strays and frequently prioritizes hockey over spending time with his wife and children.

GOP strategists also like school choice because it adds a spark of positive energy to a 2014 campaign agenda that's awfully heavy on the negatives: no to Obamacare, no to minimum - wage hikes, no to gay marriage — but yes to rescuing struggling kids from failing public schools through the power of the free market.

If the scheme is intended to give safety net protection to vulnerable cohabitants then it would fail if it required couples to have first gone through a marriage / civil partnership type ceremony or registration.

When one party's family - of - origin tries to control the marriage through a prenuptial agreement, it disturbs the delicate balance in a couple's relationship and makes it more likely to fail.

His adumbrated argument is essentially that the state should not, because it can not, feasibly «define the family through the institution of marriage» and that an attempt to do so would fail to accurately reflect the diversity of forms the family now takes in western society.

Having been through divorce, a failed brief second marriage, and finally finding a soul mate and in a stable marriage I know the pain through it all.

In short, the frustration and resentment grows from years of failed attempts that can lead to irreparable damage to the emotional health of a marriage, especially for women undergoing IVF, who may suffer through multiple failed pregnancies.

When marriages fail, divorcing spouses sometimes attempt to remain friends with an estranged partner through and after what is sometimes called «the divorce process.»

He is familiar with worst - case scenarios, often having been called in to help families resolve child custody disputes after marriage counseling, mediation, and litigation have failed, and he has gained a uniquely comprehensive per - spective of what helps and what hurts children going through their parents» divorce.

In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washington made a startling announcement: Through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict, with more than 90 - percent accuracy, whether a marriage would succeed or fail.

In the late 1970s Harville Hendrix, PhD, and Helen LaKelly Hunt, MA, — who had each been through divorces with their previous spouses — had a common interest in understanding their failed marriages.

If your marriage is in trouble, then marriage counseling is most likely your last option — if counseling fails to find a way through, then your marriage is most likely going to come to an end.

People often fail to understand the seriousness of marriage, and enter into what should be a life - long commitment without thinking it through fully.

Famous couple's therapist, John Gottman, describes how marriages fail through a description of what he calls the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling.

Or is it a coping mechanism to help me through the pain of my marriage failing?