Last week it was widely reported in the media that the Blackadder star, Rowan Atkinson, worth an estimated # 70 million, was granted a «quickie» divorce in 65 seconds from wife Sunetra after 24
years of marriage at London's Central Family Court on grounds of his unreasonable behaviour.
After 35
years of marriage at least you know I'm house trained.
Not exact matches
In his book «The All - or - Nothing
Marriage,» Eli Finkel, a psychologist
at Northwestern University and a professor
at the Kellogg School
of Management, made a similar argument: Modern spouses look to each other for friendship, sexual fulfillment, intellectual growth — not just financial stability, like they did in
years past.
«Rae met Wattie when they were introduced by a mutual friend
at a party, marrying after a short courtship and enjoying 33
years of a close, strong, supportive and loving
marriage.
Wolfinger looked
at the numbers
of sexual partners a woman had before
marriage, and then, after putting them into groups based on the self - reported number, looked
at how many were divorced after five
years.
According to ancient Jewish canon (law) a priest (
of which Jesus was one) was required to be
at least 30
years old, married and have children BEFORE becoming a priest so that he would be able to understand the problems and conflicts
of marriage and parenthood.
People today are so preoccupied with making it illegal to even roll your eye's
at the thought
of gay
marriage meanwhile over the last 10
years the powers that be have removed some
of the most basic human rights that even Muslim countries have!
Many were unsatisfied with Charles's answers on same - sex
marriage and felt that he had not addressed himself to homosexual love even though he spoke
of having experienced it in his own past (
at one time, he said, he had lived with a male lover for 14
years).
Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?
Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this
year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message
of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?
of Jesus Feminist throughout her first
year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?
of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies
at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts
of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?
of our home,
marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)
One West Coast pastor puts a major emphasis on having
at least three sessions with each couple — after the first three months, six months, and one
year of marriage.
The average age was sixteen or seventeen, and
marriage, particularly
of girls (
at least in the dominant strata
of society which set the norms), generally took place one or two
years after puberty.
I guess after so many
years of the emphasis on
marriage, I felt like I needed to hide my singleness
at times.
We give thanks that Jesus bestowed upon him 55
years of marriage to the woman he loved — a woman who could match him
at every step, and even hold him accountable.
Her husband had died
of cancer
at 38, after only three
years of marriage.
Take a look
at this video,
of a sixteen -
year old who videoed herself criticizing the Obama and general liberal stance on gay
marriage.
rapture
of adolescent love; they assume that romance must fade sometime after the honeymoon, or
at least in the first
years of marriage.
All had been married for
at least nine
years (rates
of divorce peak in the seventh
year of marriage), had
at least one child and had
marriages that both spouses considered happy, lasting and good.
This presentation from Shauna Niequist
at Q Nashville is absolutely fantastic — one
of the best reflections on mutuality in
marriage and calling I've seen in
years, and a lovely tribute to Shauna's mother, Lynne Hybels.
The way God is working in that 17 -
year - old who chose to serve instead
of bully
at school is just as miraculous as the way God is using your
marriage to sharpen you.
Also, Aisha accepted Islam 12
years BEFORE her
marriage to Muhammad, making her
AT LEAST in her mid teens at the time of her marriag
AT LEAST in her mid teens
at the time of her marriag
at the time
of her
marriage.
If couples have been deeply alienated or strangling each other's creativity for
years, their latent
marriage can probably be developed — if
at all — only by a process
of marriage therapy or long - term
marriage counseling.
67
year old Tony Overheu said he was protesting against same - sex
marriage and accused Qantas, an Australian airline,
of «corporate bullying aimed
at social engineering»
He came out recently after more than 20
years of marriage to his former wife, who continues to work
at their church.
Isaac fell in love with Rebekah
at first sight; Jacob worked fourteen
years to win the hand
of Rachel; David fell in love with Bathsheba and, although theirs was an illicit romance, the result was
marriage and the birth
of Solomon, one
of Israel's greatest kings.
Statements like this appear frequently on the evaluation sheets
of participants
at the end
of marriage enrichment events: «We haven't communicated like this in
years.
Given how much ink has been spilled on the subject by an obsessed and advocating press, and the strong moral certitude with which Democratic (and occasional Republican) members
of the House and Senate are making their evolutionary pronouncements, it is difficult to remember that
at this time last
year, the issue
of gay
marriage had much less energy surrounding it.
Despite our focused Christian upbringing, without my mom's participation, I can still recall
at least a few
years of celebrating Hanukkah with my grandfather
at our house (compromise makes
marriages go, right?).
A historic step towards allowing the first gay
marriages in the Church
of Scotland is expected to be taken
at the General Assembly next week but it could still be
years before such ceremonies take place.
This in turn meant that Joseph Smith was obligated to take 20 + wives, many
of whom were in their early and mid teen
years at the time
of their
marriage to him.
Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades
of school followed by three
years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three
year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation
at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career
at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960);
marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny
of Man; the founding
of the Fellowship
of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader
of the Fellowship
of Reconciliation to critic
of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration
of Christianity and Crisis; the founding
of the Union for Democratic Action, then later
of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments
at Harvard,
at the Center for the Study
of Democratic Institutions, and
at Columbia's Institute
of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.
It's as if
at the end
of each lease -
year — which we've necessarily adopted over the calendar
year — our
marriage experiences a materialistic purge.
After almost 47
years of marriage and hearing about the pancakes my husband's father made him when he was little, I couldn't believe my ears when he looked
at me tonight and smiled and said these look exactly like the ones my dad used to make and taste BETTER!!!
In our first
years of marriage, Mr. Flavor Mosaic would want to take me out to eat
at a fancy restaurant on Valentine's Day.
You would think after over 25
years of marriage he would be getting better
at both those things!
We're staying with my parents
at the moment because
of an upcoming move, (which should be a blog post in itself — there's nothing like moving back in with your mom and dad, 12
years of marriage and 2 kids later...), but lucky for us, they're pretty much the most gracious parents ever, and lucky for for them I'm a food blogger and so they're getting to enjoy all the delicious recipes I create, including this one!
What prompted him to pull up roots
at the age
of 39 and move his operation to the Belcher mansion was his divorce early this
year, after 17
years of marriage.
Thus in 1962,
at the time
of their
marriage, Tudor, 43 to Tenley's 26, was a socially distinguished 43 -
year - old wrestling brute
of a classical philologist.
Most
of them will be competing, including the defending champion Anne Quast (see cover) who could be the ninth woman in the 65 -
year history
of the event to win the title twice or more in a row; and Judy Frank Jablow (page 36) who, having
at first announced that
marriage and career would prevent her from participating this
year, proved that women are still women, even if they are golfers, by changing her mind.
In light
of a few things that happened
of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on
marriage for same - sex couples, the addition
of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise
of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay -
at home dads and egalitarian
marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the
year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views
of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.
Then, after almost 20
years of marriage,
at the youthful age
of 44, I became a father.
Sometimes, after X-number
of years of marriage, we just don't love our spouse as much as we used to — if we still love him or her
at all, that is.
I've waded into the pool a few times since the end
of my
marriage almost 2
years ago, and honestly
at this point, a lifetime
of being single is looking pretty goddamn good.
My husband and I (born in mid 80's, I have a BA, he has a doctorate) knew from day 1
of our
marriage that we wanted to be parents and started saving money from our then retail and casual - dining hourly wage jobs and saved enough in just a couple
years that I was able to be a stay
at home mom while he was still in grad school.
According to the Pew Research Center, four out
of 10 new
marriages last
year included
at least one partner who had been married before, and a good percentage who haven't yet are interested in doing so.
When Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher's
marriage exploded a few
years (she was 15
years older than he), people said, well,
of course — no man is going to stay with a woman as she gets old (although Demi looked pretty good
at 48).
«For around 30
years, researchers have studied how having children affects a
marriage, and the results are conclusive: the relationship between spouses suffers once kids come along,» writes psychology professor Matthew D. Johnson, director of the Marriage and Family Studies Laboratory at Binghamton University in N
marriage, and the results are conclusive: the relationship between spouses suffers once kids come along,» writes psychology professor Matthew D. Johnson, director
of the
Marriage and Family Studies Laboratory at Binghamton University in N
Marriage and Family Studies Laboratory
at Binghamton University in New York.
At least, that's what far too many websites and magazines stated when rockers Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale called it quits after 13
years of marriage and three kids.
I didn't have a lot
of expectations one way or the other about
marriage (and obviously about weddings); still I didn't expect I'd be divorced
at 40 - something after 14
years of marriage and trying to co-parent two youngish kids, either.
In over 20
years of marriage we have not once gone away as just a couple, that would remove all the excuses why to not have sex, but she has gone on
at least three cruises with girlfriends.
Maybe, or
at least that's what Deborah A. Widiss, an associate law professor
at Indiana University's Maurer School
of Law, told me when we spoke a few
years ago about her own study, «Changing the
Marriage Equation.»