Sentences with phrase «whole idea of marriage»

He gets off on the whole idea of marriage and commitment, and he makes full use of that puppy - dog face and atonal snivel.

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Indeed, it has been supposed by some that the teraphim, household gods, (Genesis 35:4; 31:19; 30 - 35; I Samuel 15:23; 19:13, 16; II Kings 23:24) were originally images of ancestors; that they were honored as such and were part of the apparatus of popular religion; (Hosea 3:4) that mortuary customs which the prophetic school later condemned grew up around them; (Cf. Deuteronomy 26:13 - 14) that the right of performing the necessary ceremonies for one's ancestors devolved upon a son and that this fact underlay both the sense of tragedy in being sonless and the practices of levirate marriage and of adoption to avoid such disaster; (Cf. Genesis 15:2 - 3; 30:3 - 8; Deuteronomy 25:5 - 10) and that this set of ideas and customs was an integral part of the whole clan organization of early Israel.

You know, so much of what we do in the United States is to assume that we're supposed to get so much joy and happiness and meaning from our marriages, and that's really a very problematic idea - this whole soul - mate marriage idea - that our spouses are supposed to be not only hot sex partners but our therapist, our confidant, our sport partners and we're way too dependent on our spouses for meaning.

The idea of finding that special one and marriage makes the whole dating experience thrilling.

«I might say, parenthetically, I believe there are national security and common security aspects to the whole globalization challenge that I really don't have time to go into today, so I'll just steer off the text and say what I think briefly, which is that as we open borders and we increase the freedom of movement of people, information and ideas, this open society becomes more vulnerable to cross-national, multinational, organized forces of destruction: terrorists; weapons of mass destruction; the marriage of technology in these weapons, small - scale chemical and biological and maybe even nuclear weapons; narco traffickers and organized criminals, and increasingly, all these people sort of working together in lines that are quite blurred.

What if you approach your spouse and he or she is very against the whole idea of talking to an online marriage counselor?

Readers of Passionate Marriage will find previously unpublished material here, together with familiar ideas applied in whole new ways.