Posts for 'Marriage' Category

Indiana's House is now considering a constitutional amendment to protect marriage between one man and one woman.  The measure passed for the fourth time in the Senate with 80 percent of the vote -- and while its fate in the House is not certain, the Indianapolis Star says it is expected to "meet a quick death.""The Senate has passed the Marriage Protection Act in Indiana, I believe, five times, and every time the Indiana House has rejected it, refused to give it a hearing or held it up in committee," laments Micah Clark, executive director at the American Family Association of Indiana.
 
He believes that affirmative action will result in the bill's passage. "If it got to the House floor, it would easily pass with 65 percent of the vote," Clark predicts. "This is a popular issue in Indiana, but the Democrat leadership in the House, for whatever reason, refuses to allow it to move and allow people to vote on marriage rather than having courts decide.

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It is said that marriages are made in heaven and marriage vows are sacred in nature. Whatever may be the truth, marriage is one of the oldest human institutions surviving through ages and still doing fine. In fact it is one of those primary relationships which give rise to a family which in turn leads to the higher social structures and the society. Marriage has undergone tremendous change over thousands of years. Today in few parts of the world and in few societies, marriage is an established social structure for a primary relationship between a Man and Women based on equality and shared bonding.

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Marriage is a special bond that is shared between two souls. If you are in a marriage that has no love, no care and no understanding then you have no other choice to walk out of it, if there is no effort made from the both of you after trying so hard.Many opt for second marriages when their first doesn't work out well, but there are others who just stay single after that.

There is no harm in getting married the second time , but there are certain things that you should know before you step in to the married world, 'Again'.Down below are a few tips that will help you make your second marriage a 'Happy and Prosperous one':- If you love each other truly and unconditionally then you can stay unmarried for years together. What is the rush to put the ring on the finger anyways?

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Life in the 21st century is putting more strain on marriages than ever. Sheba Wheeler speaks to the experts on how to ease the load.

What with the military planning, financially crippling outlays and generally enormous importance we accord modern weddings.

It's easy for couples to think the hard part is over after the walk down the aisle. But relationship experts who have studied marriages over the decades say the work has just begun, especially for today's bride and groom.

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You are in a relationship where you have everything, except good sex.  Do you leave?  Stay?  How important is sex to you?  Sex is a kind of communication.  If communication is the number one criteria for relationships to work, and there is something wrong, then the relationship may be destined for doom.  True, one can’t expect sex to be great every time.

It’s not the movies or the music video.  Things happen, and excitement may change or wane.  But in order to make the best decision or yourself, you have to ask if the good outweighs the bad.  Or if there’s no sex, there’s no relationship? You decide.

Recently, the New York Times reported on an interesting study by the National Sleep Foundation in.

An article titled "Study Finds Many Are Too Tired for Sex", which suggested that.

One in four Americans married or living with someone say they are so sleep-deprived that they are often too tired to have sex."

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A friend e-mailed me about his son's marriage, which is a bit of struggle. That led to the following guidelines that I put together with lots of help from my wife, Roberta.

We can't claim to be experts, but having been married since 1977, we do have nearly 33 years of experience.

Most troubled marriages need professional help, and my friend's son is receiving that. Our observations don't deal with major issues such as abuse, addictions and adultery. But maybe a few of our suggestions will help you:

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Title: Becoming conversant with talking points needed in the Civil Marriage Equality struggle. Have you been confronted by friends, family, colleagues or others seeking your position on the so-called marriage equality, or same-sex marriage issue? This paper offers excellent talking points and responses to those queries, and gives you confidence when addressing the issue in general. Herein, I offer the following outline of the issue and its myriad ramifications.

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For years there have been marriage "rules" passed down from generation to generation. During our 27 years of research interviewing thousands of successfully married couples on six continents of the world, we discovered some marriage "rules" that truly helped couples build lasting love. On the other hand, we also discovered marriage "rules" that are not only silly, but can even be downright damaging to building successful relationships.

Here are three marriage "rules" made to be broken: 1. "Focusing on the children is the most important part of being a parent." Quite the opposite is true for successfully married couples who have raised great children. The quality of the relationship between mom and dad trumps everything else. Get the relationship right and good things follow.

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Looking back, I remember it so well that it seems like only yesterday. I had been working abroad and had come home to get married.

I had known my intended since I was a child but had never been on a date with him, had never even been alone with him, yet there we were about to take the plunge.

We sat in a restaurant together, quite delighted with ourselves and each other, talking non-stop - every syllable the other uttered was golden.

Then I spotted an elderly couple opposite exchanging not a word as they dined.
'I hope,' I said to my beloved, 'that we never get like that.

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