Sentences with phrase «years of my failed marriage»

In the 23 years of my failed marriage, I hid, filtered, and pretended to be what I thought my spouse wanted.

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Kenney was part of a government for years that has a record (for instance, of failing to get pipelines built) and he has made many comments on political issues that are on the record (for instance, a long standing opposition to gay marriage).

An Alpha leader in his 40s talked about episodes of violence, about failed marriages and about the years of estrangement from his family.

He goes on to say, «After five years of marriage if a husband has failed to understand or seek help for the major causes of disharmony, either he doesn't understand what genuine love is, or has chosen to ignore God's command to shepherd his family wisely.»

Nor is it a «failed marriage» — the 14 years my former husband and I were together had many happy moments and created two amazing sons, now young men, whom we were able to co-parent well because we were kind to and respectful of each other (well, most of the time).

four and a half years later, i still consider myself part of the product of a» failed marriage».

Shackelford, 62, wrote that he had had «numerous affairs going back to the first two years» of his marriage and that the couple had «significant problems in their marriage for years, including three rounds of marital counseling that failed.»

Nor does it mean you have a «failed marriage» — the 14 years my former husband and I were together had many happy moments and created two amazing sons, now young men, whom we co-parented well apart because we were respectful of each other (well, most of the time).

After eight years of marriage, and countless failed attempts at pregnancy, my husband and I completely lost hope of having a baby.

But Holly Dustin, manager of End Violence Against Women, believes the home secretary is continuing to fail the three million women across the UK who experience rape, domestic violence, forced marriage, trafficking, or other violent behaviour each year.

Their divorce after 13 years of marriage came in 2003 — not long after Cuomo's failed 2002 gubernatorial bid, during which Kennedy and the couple's three daughters often joined the candidate on the road — and was similarly splayed across the front pages of NY's tabloids.

The selection is part of a broader move within the organization to restructure after a bill to legalize same - sex marriage failed decisively in the State Senate late last year.

Says Paterson of the marriage equality bill: «People who've lived together for 10, 20, 30 years are waiting, hoping that this legislation will pass while they still have the breath to elicit an «I do» on the altar, and I think it's time that it happens, and if I have to see legislation fail so I can identify who voted against it to better persuade them, then I'll take that chance.»

• During last year's contentious battle in the State Senate over the failed gay - marriage bill, while Governor Paterson, Kirsten Gillibrand, Christine Quinn, and even Chuck Schumer lobbied on behalf of the bill, Cuomo was virtually silent, not even bothering to get three wavering state senators on the phone when asked to do so by gay groups.

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.

Because I had spent over two years stuck in my head trying to deal with a failing marriage, I withdrew from a lot of friends and family.

I'm a 25 year old woman full of life and am recently back out there after an eventful but failed marriage.

Two failed marriages, four engagement rings and more than 250 cyber-dates... Julie Spira brings to us her memoirs of her 15 years of online dating and a range of those memorable moments she has experienced, some great and others not worth the effort.

Newsfactor, Wed Sep 1 — Now sociologists have another culprit to blame for huge numbers of failed marriages: The Internet... New figures released by the United Kingdom's Office of National Statistics show that divorce in England and Wales has risen for the third successive year in 2003, to more than 150,000.

An age difference increased to ten years shows a thirty - nine per cent risk of that marriage failing.

Lifelong relationship or marriage with a woman shall be full of respect and warm feelings, and must mot fail in 2 - 3 years but shall last all your life.

There was an outcry when the Baftas — the British equivalent of the Oscars — failed to award Charlotte Rampling a Best Actress nomination for her stunning performance in the brilliant British marriage drama «45 Years».

After years of therapy, Buddhist practice, her brother's suicide, two failed marriages and motherhood, she rejects her old vision of comparing the past to «radioactive waste» that must be buried.

The second section of the book narrates (via «postcards» addressed to the book's subject) Parker Ervick's own story of her failing 17 - year marriage and her quest, like that of Božena Němcová, for a happy ending.

Houston, TX Love doesn't last long in this town, with the average failed marriage lasting only 17.1 years, compared to a national average of 19.4.

When legislatures act, they may grant 50 of the 1,000 rights of marriage now, another 25 rights next year, another 100 the year after that, and the rest whenever they get around to it, all without explaining why they've acted or failed to act.

If, like me, you have been in the position of deposing two parents whose 12 year old son died after six hours in a waiting room, vomiting blood due to his necrotic bowell, because the admitting nurse failed to triage him due to her incorrect snap judgment he «just had a flu,» and seen their tears, anguish and the story of how the event ruined their lives and their marriage, you might think that a cookie cutter approach to non-economic damages is not necessarily an idea that promotes good values, like personal responsibility and just compensation.

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.

Research by Dr. John Gottman — who spent sixteen years studying what makes marriages thrive and fail in his «love lab» at the University of Washington and who famously possesses the ability to predict with over 90 % accuracy whether a couple will end up divorcing based on watching them interact for just 15 minutes — found that happy couples don't necessarily have less conflict in their marriage than unhappy ones.

Keep in mind, half of all failed marriages end in the first 7 years.

From over 40 years of scientific research, Dr. John Gottman, has developed this assessment of the strength and quality of relationships grounded in his evidence - based information on what makes marriages succeed or fail.

When marriages fail, a range of social services must be activated to prop up the lives of those families, and the national cost of this has been assessed at $ 112 billion per year.

Other studies show that more than half of marriages that fail do so in the first seven years.

«Conventional therapy has failed most couples,» Real writes, and with over 20 years of marriage and family counseling experience, he's qualified to judge.

I'm trying (and failing miserably) to go a little sparser in my house, but after 40 years of marriage we've collected a lot of things we love!)