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Love, Light, Strength (and Glue): When the Bonds of Marriage are Tested....
How does marriage survive chronic, devastating problems? Sarah Kishpaugh has something to teach us. On this blog, we tend to operate under the assumption that your marriage is mostly fine. Maybe not...
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An Eighth Reason to Seek Marriage Counseling
PsychCentral just ran a great article – Seven Reasons to Seek Marriage Counseling. You can find much more detailed content on their website, but here’s a high level summary of their reasons: 1....
View ArticleSeven Year Itch Letters: How China is Fighting High Divorce Rates
A few weeks ago I mentioned Mexico City’s proposed attempt to lower divorce rates: set an expiration date for all new marriages. (Here’s my post about the proposal, and here’s a link to Colbert’s “wag...
View ArticleMexico City Considers Setting a Two Year Expiration Date for Marriages
Mexico City lawmakers have proposed a change to the city’s civil code to set a two year expiration date to new marriages. As Reuters put it, “‘Til 2013 do us part.”The idea is to help couples avoid the...
View ArticleSurvival and Second Marriages
Cliff and I have often written about how the divorce statistic you probably know (50%) probably doesn’t reflect your reality. (Read what we’ve said here and here.) Your actual odds of staying together...
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Working Women, Stay at Home Dads, and Divorce
When I was in college I spent a very long summer doing a temp job in a doctor’s office. One of the doctors, a cardiologist, was a woman. Her husband was a stay at home dad and part-time auto mechanic....
View ArticleSorry, Arnold: You Picked the Wrong Decade to be Unfaithful
Hollywood – both in the personal lives of its stars and in its movie scripts – would have us believe that monogamy is a bygone belief. Virtually any movie involving a wedding features at least one...
View ArticleDoubt the Numbers: Headlines Tell the Wrong Story about Divorce Rates
The latest US Census data came out recently and so newspapers are quick to remind us that the divorce rate still hovers around 50%. This is true, but only technically. If you really want to know your...
View ArticleRevisionist History
Close your eyes and think back to how you and your partner met. How did it happen? What attracted you to him/her? What made you decide this was the person you wanted to marry? If you can do this with...
View ArticleToo Big to Fail: Thoughts on the Marriage of William and Kate
I’ve managed to avoid most of the William and Kate craziness that has otherwise possessed the Internet for the last few days: I did not set my alarm for 3 a.m., and it was well after 8 this morning...
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