As a couple watches their lifelong dream of a comfortable retirement go up in smoke, they may decide they want to try a little harder to
make their marriage work before giving up.
For most people who made a good faith effort
at making a marriage work, a divorce is like surviving the death of a loved one.
Under no - fault, spouses have grounds for divorce when they agree that they can no
longer make their marriage work, yet neither spouse is at fault for this breakdown.
They adapt quickly to new environments and do everything to
make a marriage work since Russian culture dictates that a woman can only be truly happy when she is married.
We offer a tools - based approach that provides education about
what makes marriage work and the skills for building a strong relationship.
The love that comes with marriage is about commitment and sacrifice, and if you feel committed enough to
make marriage work when money gets tight, then go for it.
Doyle isn't the only one who thinks it all rests on the woman's shoulders, or so I learned by reading the illuminating
book Making Marriage Work by Kristin Celello, newly out in paperback; I now understand why we consider marriage as something to «work» on (although it wasn't always seen that way; it used to be a «duty») and why saving a marriage is «women's work» — that's how it has been presented to women for decades.
Gottman spent 40 years researching exactly what goes into healthy relationships, and he posited in his book, «The Relationship Cure,» that the same principles that
make marriages work also hold true for many other kinds of relationships.
Making a marriage work requires compromise and sacrifice, says Jim's dad, while his schmucky son tells his bride - to - be, I think you and I are a perfectly natural, normal thing.
In the interview, people who scored high in Disappointment / Disillusionment sometimes said that they didn't know what
makes a marriage work because all they'd seen or experienced were bad ones!
It is the way that you handle and composes you in those situations that will prove how willing you are to put effort
into making the marriage work.
They were making a conscious decision and commitment to
make their marriage work during their kids» crucial years instead of blindly agreeing to a promise a good 50 percent of us can not keep — marriage until death.
No one is expecting an in - depth look into what it takes to
actually make a marriage work out of a Farrelly brothers film (or any relationship comedy about marriage, really).
You could also do some self - help by reading Gottman's book, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work [Amazon - US Amazon - UK], or by working together through the exercises in Couple Skills: Making Your Relationship Work [Amazon - US Amazon - UK], by Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning and Kim Paleg.