Sentences with phrase «years of marriage couples»

Did you know that within the first two years of marriage couples are more likely to become non-sexual than any other time period?

Usually after few years of marriage couples are feeling bored with each other.

After years of marriage a couple runs the risk of becoming more like roommates rather than romantic lovers.

Not exact matches

«The reality for many same - sex couples who are divorcing is that they had relationships in place prior to the marriage — some for many, many years,» said Joyce Kauffman, principal of Kauffman Law & Mediation in Roslindale, Massachusetts.

Both have spoken publicly about the dissolve of their respective marriages in the past couple of years.

SM: No, and it's possible, but the bigger vision is to cater to couples from the day they get engaged, into their first years of marriage.

My life was turned upside down a couple years back in a situation that led to the dissolution of my marriage, I also work in animal rescue, which brings me constant anxiety that animals I know and care about may not make it, and frequently the actual crushing pain of losing them.

As the decorative plaque that reads «Family is Forever» and the framed photos in their living room suggest, Julia and Rob, a couple for 12 years with hopes of marriage in the future, want desperately to make a home together....

God does not delight in the marriage of two 25 - year - olds more than in the marriage of two 65 - year - olds simply because the younger couple may have a longer time together.

Churches which have tried a variety of marriage enrichment retreats report that participation by couples in the first ten years is generally more enthusiastic than that of couples in any other marriage stage.

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.

For the average couple the pre-children stage of marriage lasts just over two years.

For many couples who have achieved a degree of contentment and intimacy, and for others who are still willing to cultivate intimacy, these years can be the most fulfilling of the entire marriage.

If the marriage has been neglected in favor of the children during the previous fifteen or more years, it is faltering by this time and in no condition to provide the couple with resources for facing the empty nest years.

If it is true that marriage makes of husbands and wives a new being, the married person, these middle years bring out its full maturity, the prime of life when the personality of the couple grows stronger and deeper.

During the early years of marriage, with or without children, a couple faces its most difficult developmental task.

There are changes in the intimacy pattern in the various stages of the marriage, but there is also a tendency for the couple to maintain a general continuity of relationship style over the years.

Throughout the early months and years of marriage, it is important for couples to exercise the virtue of patience with each other, recognizing that growth takes time and struggle and living together.

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.

Think of what a typical young couple must learn to handle, all within a few years — coping with marriage, new jobs, pregnancy, caring for a baby, limited finances, a large mortgage and other debts.

In their study of sexual and marital behavior among affluent couples married for ten years or more, Cuber and Harroff discovered five recurring configurations of male - female relationships in marriages.

While it sounds like a noble idea, the concept of «investing in your marriage» can seem so far away for many couples, particularly during the first few years of marriage.

Gary Smalley wrote in one of his books that «If a couple has been married for more than five years, any persistent disharmony in their marriage is usually attributable to the husband's lack of understanding and applying genuine love.»

Since Humanae Vitae, the fiftieth anniversary of which we celebrate this year, there has been a constant stream of Jesuit moral theologians arguing in print that the encyclical was a mistake, that it is enough if the unitive and procreative dimensions of sex and marriage are linked in only a very general way — not in each marital act — and that the really deep meaning of Paul VI's teaching is that couples should exercise responsible parenthood.

Over the past ten years, several institutes that study public opinion have regularly asked representative samples of the population of those over eighteen years of age whether they favored or opposed homosexual marriage and adoption of children by same - sex couples.

Over the last ten years, several institutes that study public opinion have regularly asked representative samples of the population of those over eighteen years of age whether they favored or opposed homosexual marriage and adoption of children by same - sex couples.

Years before the nation's capital legalized same - sex marriage in March, one church in Washington, D.C., opened its doors to gay couples as part of its mission to establish an «inclusive body of Biblical believers.»

FACT is... with exception of two couples in my familu (have a HUGE family on both sides) The older generation has celebrated OVER 50 years of marriage and NOT ONE of them had to live together to get there.

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.

I left it alone for the first couple years of our marriage, choosing instead to foster love rather than bitterness around the dinner table.

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.

We had the advantage of 10 years of couple time before we had kids and I know that our marriage is resilient enough to withstand a few years where nighttime parenting might need to cut into our couple time.

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 other.

While I'm sure Boldt means well — as a mom myself, we always mean well — she may be forgetting that the couple, who announced their divorce this past July after 10 years of marriage and after having three children together — Violet, 10, Seraphina, 6, and Samuel, 3 — had been in marital therapy since allegedly splitting nearly three years ago.

If you're as selfie - obsessed as so many others seem to be, you might be aware of Chris and Shannon Neuman, the Canadian couple whose smiling selfie outside the court house, where they were about to end their 11 - year marriage, went viral.

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.

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.

As has been shared with a couple of other guys, I'm the sole income and have been virtually all of our 30 + year marriage.

A Licensed marriage and family therapist for 20 years and a mother of two who has worked with mothers and couples who have experienced birth trauma and postpartum depression for the last ten years.

Included in the above are a few prevalent beliefs about marriage: that it creates a sense of ownership (well, it's true — women were the property of their husband for many, many, many years); that it stifles freedom and independence (it has been called a «greedy institution «-RRB-; it enables couples to become «too comfortable,» and the label «wife» and the expectations that come with being a wife are troublesome for some women — especially woman who have been married before.

Would it make more sense to have renewable marriages of certain lengths based on a couple's needs — say two to five years for 20 - somethings who want to experience married life before they start having children or 18 years for couples who have made that leap and wish to raise them to adulthood?

After 15, 20, 25 years of marriage, that just might be what helps a couple make it «until death» — happily.

By the time their youngest went off to college, after 20 - plus years of marriage, the couple were barely talking to each other.

Despite their best intentions when they said their «I dos,» each of their marriages ended, and when they started dating and then married, blending families and many marital years behind them (14 for Astro, eight for Danielle), they began to question a lot of the messages they'd been told about marriage and divorce, as well as the one - size - fits - all answers «experts» and the self - help industry had for struggling couples.

You may think these things are unrelated, but 70 % of couples are unhappy in their marriages in the first year after they have a baby!

Adults who didn't attend college and have a low household income are more likely to be divorced — Non-college educated couples are nearly 20 % more likely to get divorced within the first 10 years of marriage than college - educated couples.

It jumps to 8 percent for marriages of 30 to 39 years, likely because these couples are closer to life's empty nest stage, when children are grown and out of the house.»

My own experience, combined with years of working with couples in distress — some striving to save their marriage, some to transition out of it — led me to become passionate about offering support to people at perhaps one of the most crucial junctures in their lives.

During the past six years, dozens of couples across the U.S.have transitioned from their traditional marriage to this non-traditional model.

According to Amity Buxton of the Straight Spouse Network, «When the gay, lesbian, or bisexual spouse comes out, a third of the couples break up immediately; another third stay together for one to two years, sorting out what to do and then divorce; the remaining third try to make their marriages work.