A New Vision of Marriage?

On June 26, 2013 the Supreme Court struck down, as unconstitutional, the key provision of DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act. It also dismissed a district court's challenge to California Prop 8, which had eliminated the rights of same-sex couples to marry in the state. As one might expect, depending on which side of the issue you fall on, there was either rejoicing or consternation about the decisions of the court and what this means to marriage as a whole.

Is Your Bad Attitude Killing Your Marriage?

Is your marriage glass half full or half empty? Is it party sunny or partly cloudy in your marriage? Is your marriage not that bad or not that good? Is your attitude killing your marriage or is your marriage killing your attitude? Keeping your marriage together sometimes has a lot to do with perspectives and attitudes.
You no doubt have experienced the highs and lows of the married life and probably have thought once or twice about jumping ship. Don’t jump yet because there is still time to turn things around, despite what you are feeling right now.

How to Cope in a Sexless Marriage

The first thing you need to know about how to cope in a sexless marriage is that you must be careful not to let the situation affect your self esteem.
If your partner does not want to have sex with you, this can be hurtful, and you have to be careful to make sure that you don’t then start to take all of the blame on yourself. In most cases, it has taken two people to arrive at this situation even if it is only one of the couple who has stopped wanting sex.

The Trinity in Marriage

What is the right view of wholeness in marriage? Do two halves make a whole, or are both partners, husband and wife, whole people in their own right, making also one whole person in marital unity? This article argues for the latter, but with another entity completing the whole: God. Hence, a trinity exists in marriage.
Most spiritual people seek to become ‘whole’ people. But if they are married, rather than whole, they are best becoming a whole half – as they gave up their self wholeness on their wedding day.

Ways to Save a Marriage After A Cheating Spouse

Ways to Save a Marriage After Cheating
Although it can seem like a comedy on TV or a movie you’re watching, witnessing a wife throwing her husband’s clothes out the window once she’s learned of his other woman, while seemingly funny is anything but. Standing below, watching not only his clothes but his marriage being cast away, the husband must face both his neighbors, who have by this point gathered to see what the fuss is but also himself as he gathers his clothes in a huge bundle. He might have his clothes, but most of “him” remains upstairs: his wife, his kids, his books, his phone book, his computer, his toothbrush and his life. He can buy a new toothbrush, the other “things” are replaceable, however not without several overtime hours. His kids and his wife on the other hand are not. As he walks away, he begins muttering, “I am a jerk. Why did I do this? What’s wrong with me? I need help saving my marriage, but I am going to do it!”

5 Steps to Conquer Money Problems in Marriage

Money problems are one of the main reasons why married couples get divorced or separated each year. If you and your spouse are going through exactly the same problems, then you should seriously do something to effectively solve it. Meanwhile, you can follow the effective steps below to conquer money problems in marriage:

Ways to Save a Marriage: It Starts With You

People really do have the best of intentions when they get married. We all promise to love each other through thick and thin, despite illness and through the twists and turns that are inevitable when living with someone for many, many years. We have little control over the direction of our own life and so trying to anticipate what path a marriage will take requires a crystal ball that none of us possesses. Many things can influence a marriage and one day the person you married over a decade ago seems to have changed. If learning ways to save a marriage is important to you, hopefully this article will be of some use. But there really are some tried and true ways of learning how to save a marriage that have worked for others and can work for you.

Will Talking About Your Problems Help Save Your Marriage?

 Talking about your problems may appear to be the most natural thing to do. I have heard many people suggesting that the best way a problem can be solved is by talking about it. The idea behind this belief is that when you speak out your problem, you are unconsciously analyzing the issues behind the problem and this will make you think and understand the issues better. Well, you can’t fault this logic.

10 Ways a Christian Woman Can Prevent Her Marriage From Divorce

In one year I knew of at least 10 Christian couples (who were either associates or close friends), who got divorced or separated. It was puzzling to say the least because I looked up to many of these individuals as examples for my own marriage. While I don’t know all the dynamics of why each divorce took place in these relationships, I do know that God’s plan is for marriage to work. I also understand that it takes two to make the marriage work. With this in mind, as women, there are some things we can do to work on maintaining and divorce proofing our marriages. In addition to prayer and faith, doing these things will often require pressing past your emotions and feelings in order to strengthen the marriage relationship and protect it against the enemy’s traps. While nothing is guaranteed, you can do your part as a wife in helping to strengthen your marriage relationship.

How To Save a Marriage – Stages Of A Marriage

There are a few stages of marriage that couples will go through. This will happen in different orders, different lengths of time, and some couples may even skip a stage. But this will allow you to see what stage you are in, and what you can do to get your marriage back on track, or keep it on track.

How To Restore A Marriage – Resources Your Marriage Counselor Won’t Tell You About

If you are working on how to restore a marriage, then odds are you haven been seeking the advice of marriage counselors. In many cases this could prove to be very much beneficial. But other times you can learn how to restore a marriage from the comfort of your own home. This article will give you two resources you can use to learn how to restore a marriage without seeing a marriage counselor face to face.

Present-Day Demands for Marriage Counseling

Marriage counseling is something which is necessary more than ever right now in our history, with separation and divorce rates soaring. Marriage is the basis for sound families and wholesome girls and boys. Nowadays more than ever before youngsters are in jeopardy and their family homes are unstable. A number of reasons have been given for this rise in the breakdowns of relationships and marriages, with no definite conclusions ever being reached. Modern therapy and marriage counseling which makes use of techniques that work are desperately needed.