Young, Perfect Love and New Marriage

With wedding season upon us, so many couples are about to blissfully enter into marriage, hopefully with dreams and ideas of their long and happy lives together. Do you remember those times? Maybe you’re long past your newlywed days. What advice would you give them? I’m reading one of the reported “best books of all [...]

How to Boost Your Willpower, Success in Marriage and Life

Happy Life: Happy Marriage What would you do differently in your life if you had more willpower? Are there efforts related to your personal health or improvements to your marriage and family life you would make if you could stay on target? Sometimes it’s easier to get inspired to start something new or to make [...]

5 Words That Saved a Marriage

How One Husband Convinced His Wife to Give Him a Second Chance I can’t tell you how many readers write and ask, “My spouse doesn’t want to be married anymore. What can I do to stop my spouse from leaving?” These emails pain my heart because I have so little advice on the matter. That’s [...]

What Fake Amazon Reviews Taught Me About Marriage

I co-wrote BE FEARLESS: How to Change Your Life in 28 Days with Jonathan Alpert, a therapist who wrote a wildly controversial opinion piece in yesterday’s New York Times called Is Therapy Forever? Enough Already. What I found most interesting from the backlash have been the number of people who will get mad at a [...]

How Does Food Affect Your Marriage?

A new study is analyzing the impact of fatty foods on marital stress, hypothesizing that following a fatty meal, your marital interactions may be more stressful. That got me to thinking about food in general and its impact on our daily lives. While I do think we need to be thinking about eating more healthfully, [...]

Discuss: Should marriage make you a better person?

That’s the question a reader recently posed. She was referring to the line from the Jack Nicholson character in As Good As It Gets, “You make me want to be a better man.” She asked, “Many people say their spouses have made them better people. They say their spouses constantly make them laugh and they [...]

Is “Good Fighting” Beneficial to Marriage?

Many couples fear that frequent arguing can signal their relationship’s demise. It may be the type of arguing you do, not the frequency, that determines your fate. Do couples that fight actually have an edge? A 2012 study found that 44 percent of married couples believe that fighting more than once a week helps keep [...]

U.S. Marriage and Divorce Stats

You may be interested to read the marriage and divorce data  from the U.S. Census Bureau for 2008 (the most recent data available). 52% of men in the U.S. are currently married; 9% are currently divorced 48% of women in the U.S. are currently married; 12% are divorced Idaho (apparently not just known for potatoes) has the highest percentage [...]

Acceptance of Interracial Marriage Growing in U.S.

Brandy (left) and Chris (right) Barnes were profiled in First Kiss to Lasting Bliss. Pictured here with their daughter, Summer, in 2007, when they renewed their wedding vows. Today’s topic is an important marital trend here in the states:  The number of interracial marriages in the U.S. is on the rise, and acceptance of these [...]

How To Create More Intimacy In Your Marriage

It’s safe to say that one of the major things marriage provides your life is the intimate connection  you can create with your spouse. It’s part of marriage’s elegance. You and your spouse can create an entire part of your life that only the two of you know about. Yet, this intimate connection is also [...]

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