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We’ve all done it. We’ve all dated someone (in hindsight) thought was off their rocker....
Getting Personal in the Web 2.0 World
Recently I have started reading Putting the Public Back in Public Relations by Brian Solis and Dierd...
Once upon a time, in a not so distant land...
It was cold and stormy. She excused herself from the volleyball game to go find a warmer sweatshirt....
I’ve been hearing a lot of rhetoric that attempts to separate the personal from the political...
True love is honoring the commitment made to our partner even when we don’t want to do so. Thi...
PROS Comfortable with him. He is supportive of me going back to school. He is willing to sacrifice f...
Talk About Marriage
How do I put my hurt aside to help my H?
For those of you that don't know my background... I have a H that suffers severe depression. And used this as his excuse to cheat. My H......
hi, My girlfriend and I have been together for 15 years (both in mid 30's). We've had our share of problems, but we try to work together, and......
Feeling so alone in a new place....
Hi everyone...basically im new here and hopefully i get much support as i needed. My story goes like this...i just got married 2 weeks ago and......
my stepson isn't my husband's biological child
my husband told be that the boy he calls his son really isn't his. his ex cheated on him before they were married and convinced him that the child......
I think my fiance hates my kids
We have been together for 2 years now. In that 2 years we have been through a lot and made it through. When he first met my kids he was great with......
Married to a Women Who Doesn't Love Me
We are in our late 20's and have been married for nearly 2 years. Just before Christmas she told me she wasn't happy. Shortly after Christmas she......
Marriage Relationship Advice Blog
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Ending an unhappy marriage is not the answer for your children
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Why does Having Children Add more Stress for Women?
Carrying the load of caring for children can be shifted around somewhat and it is only fair for husbands to do as much as they can. But it is wise to understand the underlying forces of nature that try to compel us to see things in a certain way. Read...
A Happy Marriage is Important for Children, Ending an Unhappy Marriage is NOT the Answer
The ease of divorce does not mean it should be utilized. Parents need to exercise their free will to do what is right even when the easy way out is a tempting option. Isn't that what you teach your children? Read more......
Marriage can Go from Bad to Good to Excellent
...most good people believe they or their spouse have changed so they just don't get along as they used to. Most people blame the lack of joy on anything and everything other than what the real problem is. Read more......
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Announcing the McMarriage Education Center of Boca Raton
Hello Yes, it has been a while since I have posted anything, but I have been working on the next phase of getting my message out. I am now ready to take my message of saving our culture of marriage... Happy Relationships Blog is the Place to Solve Your Marriage Problems ...
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Sacred Relationships: A New Paradigm Unfolding
I have spent a lot of time contemplating the solution to the relationship problem in an effort to solve our cultural problem of divorce, and have yet to find elsewhere a message that conveys an... Happy Relationships Blog is the Place to Solve Your Marriage Problems ...
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About.com Marriage
What Others are Writing About Mutual Respect, Forced Marriages, and Saying I Love you
These three comments about marriage caught my attention today while I was catching up on my reading. We certainly agree with the importance of mutual respect in a marriage and saying 'I love you' to your spouse on a regular basis. We sure hope Yemen does change their laws on...
A few months ago we discovered Instapaper.com and installed the "Read Later" widget on our tool bar. It has advantages and disadvantages. If I find myself wanting to read something on a web page, but know I should stay focused on what I'm researching or writing, I can hit that...
In 2001 and in 2004, we reported statistics about couples who are too tired for sex. Apparently, sleep deprivation is still taking a toll on sexual intimacy in marriage. Roni Caryn Rabin of The New York Times reports that one in four Americans say they are too tired to have...
Marriages of Academy Award Nominees and Winners
For us, part of the fun of watching the Academy Awards is seeing who shows up with who and which stars remember to thank their spouses. Check out this list of married Academy Award nominees. As they are announced, we will update the list with the winners for the main categories. Marriages...
Do You Have Any Dating Tips for Married Couples?
Most everyone agrees on the importance of married couples scheduling date nights with one another. Yet roadblocks like making time for the dates and deciding on what to do while on a date can get in the way. Do you have any dating tips for married couples? If...
So-called "New" Cohabitation Report
One of the teasers on World News Tonight last night was "Cracking the code on marriage! How to keep it strong." The web site link to the WNT segment says "The Secret to a Long and Happy Marriage?" When the segment faded to the commercial break, we looked at one another...
GetRomantic.com
Printable Love Coupons for V-day
If you have a printer we have the perfect gift for your special someone!...
Pick these up on your way home from work......
3 Things Every Woman Wants For Valentine’s Day
It's not what you think......
Make This Valentine’s Day Sizzle
Don't just meet your partner's expectations, make this a Valentine's Day they will never forget!...
If you are short on ideas on how to celebrate Valentines Day this year, consider one of the following scenarios....
Valentine's Day gifts that are personalized....
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A SUNDAY VISIT TO A FRIEND’S HOME
I just arrived home and I spent a wonderful day with my colleague at his home with his wife and had...
New Episode: Marriage Myths and the post-honeymoon truth
Click to play episode CLICK TO PLAY EPISODE What happens after the romance of the wedding day and th...
sow righteouness, reap love… It’s time to till the ready earth, it’s time to dig i...
Arranged marriage? No thank you.
I’m what you might call the black sheep in my family. I’ve told my folks: reject all p...
I haven’t written for a while because I’ve been sick. It was bound to happen, yet I did...
Keeping it Hospitable in Turkey
submitted by Cecile Here I am in Cappadocia, a very touristy area, trying my hand at ”kilim...
A Marriage Therapist's Blog
Be Brief, be Brief, but be Beneficial!
When a couple first comes to see me, I always ask if they have done any previous marriage therapy. If they have, it is important for me to hear about what parts of the counseling helped them and what parts did not. Frequently, these couples share feelings of discouragement and...
Interesting article in the newspapers today. Research just published by the National Center for Health Statistics indicates that couples who lived together before they were married are less likely to stay married. In fact, couples who cohabitated are 6% less likely to have their marriage last ten years or longer. I’m...
Believing In The One You’re With
Think back to your childhood. Do you remember a time when you got in trouble or were punished for something you didn’t intend to do? Take a moment now to put yourself back in that situation and recall how you felt as your parent (or caregiver) reacted without even trying...
It’s perfectly normal for there to be occasional disagreements and conflict in healthy relationships andmarriages. While this type of interaction is probably not ideal, it truly is part of the reality of being in a committed relationship. Living side by side with another human being who may have a very...
I never saw an episode of Jon & Kate Plus 8; since I work evenings there are a lot of shows that I don’t get to see. However, I knew something was up when I saw Jon and Kate on the covers of the People magazines in my waiting room...
I’m pretty sure I’ve written about this before, but that’s OK because (1) it’s interesting and (2) it might influence someone in a good way. According to a study to be published in the September issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, people who had been divorced or...
The Marriage Counseling Blog
Techniques In Marriage Counseling
There are many different techniques that marriage counselors use to help their clients manage their relationship, improve their communication and re-learn better ways of connecting to one another. Two of the most useful marriage counseling techniques also work together, much as a couple needs to, in order to help...
Your Marriage And Your Fantasy
Many marriages relish the extra spice added by the occasional fantasy or fantasy role play opportunity, and it is common for a person to fantasize about another person even when having sexual contact with their very real partner. Marriage counselors talk to couples about such things all the time,...
Marriage Counseling High Risk Groups
Many people talk about warning signs that can point to possible future issues. There are warning signs for addictive behavior, mental health problems, physical health problems and more. The warning signs are not clear cut signs that absolutely point towards an issue or problem. They are, quite...
Couples Counseling and Cohabitating
Couples counseling is often used as a phrase to replace the term marriage counseling because not every couple is married. The truth is not every committed couple can legally be married, and not every committed couple chooses to ever marry. Cohabitation is essentially a couple who lives together, with the...
Counseling Takes: The Story of Sandy
Sandy had been married for 26 years. She had been young when they met, a great beauty, with most women fading into the background whenever she was present. Smart, witty and talented, she was a commanding presence. She met her husband when she was young, he older...
Counseling Help for Infidelity
Infidelity is one of the most difficult issues for a couple to deal with head on and then overcome in a healthy way. Affairs are damaging to a couple on just about every level. Emotional dependence, long term trust issues and insecurity and resentment can become overwhelming even...
Free Romantic Ideas Blog
Nelly Ft. Tim McGraw - over and over again
Its an amaaaaazing song (...
Its a classic!! It is a wonderful story of true lov...
Ice Castles is a great movie. It shows what true love really is...
To all those who are looking into bodiour sexy intimate or similar types of photography here's a not so good story. I looked around my area and contacted...
So genuine and heartfelt...
Choose your own adventure day.
Hi guys, Just wanted to share with you an idea i had (and played out) with my then fiancee (now wife). It worked perfectly and she really loved it. This...
Simple Marriage
Simple Marriage Podcast #3: 60 Days of Sex
It’s been a while since we’ve had a podcast here on Simple Marriage, so it high time we offer another up. Here it is. Today, you won’t have to sit and listen to just me. Instead you will be treated to an interview I had with Tony and Alisa DiLorenzo of...
This is a follow up to last week’s post on Nice People sex as well as a bonus Pre-Sex Week post. Sex is powerful, chaotic, and wild. Full of all types of energy – spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical. Every person who ventures into the world of sex does so with...
Scene: You are sitting in the plane getting ready for takeoff and watching with amusement as the flight attendant shares with you the safety features of the Boeing 747 you are flying on. You get past the seat-belt demo, the tray table being upright, the emergency lights leading to the...
The Virtuous Marriage: Industry
This is the sixth post in a series about living the virtuous life like Benjamin Franklin. We’re taking his life and applying it to marriage and relationships. Lose no time. Be always employed in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary actions. I enjoy being lazy as much as the next guy, perhaps...
Be on the look out for “Sex Week” – coming soon to Simple Marriage. A week’s worth of great posts on the topic of sex, which always seems to be a popular topic here on Simple Marriage, go figure. What I want from you is any questions or issues you’d like addressed...
Life’s Tough Enough: Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” ~ Marquis de Condorcet If you took the strengths of others, and compared them to your weaknesses, how do you think you’d size up? And do you think this would make you feel good? The funny thing is, this is what...
Have The Relationship You Want
Being Brave With Honesty – Alanna Levenson
If you subscribe to my monthly Interviews With Relationship Experts CD program – then you’ve just received the March interview with Alanna Levenson – and I thought she was so spectacularly great on the interview, I wanted to give you more from her. Here’s an article she wrote for...
Welcome All Men as Your Free Therapists and Let Them Help You Get the Man and the Love You Want
Here’s a great comment from Jeannette that I want to jump off from: “Thanks to all of you….however, I am still struggling with the same guy. I have cut back and for the most part let him call me, however, I am only hearing from him at odd times. Such as...
Do You Still Want Him After He Did This?
Here’s a comment from Pam that I think is all too common, and I wanted to start a discussion around it… “Rori, I discovered my man of 1.5 years was also on a dating website after he proposed to me on Christmas Day. He was checking out profiles, checking a secret...
Avatar’s Impact: How To Train Like A Na’vi
This is a post I found on EpicSelf.com by Amber Zuckswert (she’s very cool), and got permission to re-publish: Toro sashimi dangled from my chopsticks as I sat gingerly on a bar stool gearing up for my much anticipated viewing of Avatar. Since it’s Christmas debut the futuristic Fern Gully has...
Circular Dating Will Heal Your Heart if You Look for the Messages Instead of the Man
This comment felt so universal, I wanted to jump off into a post: “Hi, Rori, Well, I’ve about given up on dating websites; I’ve only had a few people contact me, on any website, in the last few weeks. It’s very discouraging, especially since most of them are younger men, and I’m...
How to Keep From Investing in the First Date if You’re Long-Distance
In this age of internet and long-distance dating – this letter from Vickie struck me as powerful: “Hello Rori, Your dating advice has been AWESOME–so awesome that I’ve met someone who has all of the qualities I look for in a man. And the wonderful thing is that I’ve used your Circular...
The Marry Blogger
30 Day Marriage Challenge – Prayer Video Update
A Video update about the 3rd 30 day Marriage Challenge - on Prayer!...
Links to several new Marriage and Relatinoship Blogs that I have come into contact with recently!...
Is There Something Worse Than Failure?
Writer and Coach Gina Parris explains that there just might be something that is worse than failure!...
Encouragement shouldn't be foreign to your marriage. Here are two quick ways to help encourage your spouse....
What if we saw our spouse as a Child of God?...
30 Day Marriage Challenge – Prayer
Praying together as a couple is this months 30 Day Marriage Challenge...
MarriageTweets
study: Happy marriage cuts fatal stroke risk for men
study: Happy marriage cuts fatal stroke risk for men: A study of 10,000 Israelis found both bachelors and those in loveless marriages had a far higher risk of fatal stroke than happily married men. As a society we should invest in relationship support because happy relationships benefit us all by...
How can I tell if my marriage is in trouble, and what can I do...
How can I tell if my marriage is in trouble, and what can I do to prevent breakup? Sue Johnson identifies warning signs in a marriage and what you can do to prevent issues from destroying your relationship....
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World’s Longest-Married Couple to Answer Your Questions Via...
World’s Longest-Married Couple to Answer Your Questions Via Twitter! The ‘Tweethearts’, from North Carolina, US, tied the knot in 1924. They have been married a whopping 85 years! You can find them on Twitter and Facebook. Link: Mashable news ...
Iowa State sociologists find older adults turning to online...
Iowa State sociologists find older adults turning to online options for love, marriage The research found that spouses who met online are older and have much shorter courtships — averaging 18.5 months of dating before getting married by comparison to 42 months for those who met in more traditional ways offline....
The Marriage Ref Jerry Seinfeld is back and in the...
The Marriage Ref Jerry Seinfeld is back and in the producer’s chair for a funny and revealing series about the unpredictable and hilarious institution we call marriage. Jerry has been out of the TV scene for 12 years and married for 10 years. I’m looking forward to the show. ;) Link: @themarriageref...
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Women's choices in men? (2,388)
Scientific Research claims that women really do crave jerks and that truly good guys do really finish last.By Steve Connor, Science EditorWhy do psychopaths exist? The ladies help the psychopaths reproduce by going to bed with them. Men who are narcissistic, self-obsessed, liars, psychopaths, Machiavellian, and thrill-seekers get laid more. Bad...
Bad boys knows how to make a girl FEEL
D'Angelo Me and my friend where talking and the subject of bad boys came up. I asked here her opinion of bad and good and she stated she wouldn't mind having a good nice guy but in her heart she know she is attracted to bad boys...
If I wanted nice in my life I'd screw someone like Mr. Rogers (2,909)
Bad boys make good girls comeby Lindsey WasleyWhat’s the worse word you can use to describe someone? It’s ok to say that your girlfriend is hot although beautiful is better — much better. It’s fine to describe your man as smart or even strong, but if you have to resort...
When one person "clings" to another person "psychologically", the person who is being "clinged to" RESENTS and REJECTS the needy, clingy emotional parasite...This is WUSS behavior at its worst.If a guy is on the phone with a girl he just met, and she says "Hey, I have to go", he...
JasmineI think if women think good guys are ugly and boring they must be very young and haven't lived or haven't experienced 20 years with a loser and lost that time and could have been with a "nice" guy and been so happy. Nice guys rock...
When we reject someone we give him or her something to obsess over. Jung believed that rage is the female nature in all of us....
The Hubby Diaries
As you may know, I spent this past week in Orlando for training & team building for my new job. If you didn’t read about how upset hubby was about this trip please read here before continuing. Ok, so now you know that hubby wasn’t upset that I was going away...
So far, March has been a crazy month at our house and it looks like we’ll have to keep up this high speed pace for at least 2 more weeks. We have some exciting things happening …. some of which, I can’t share with you just yet. But, suffice to say,...
Ok, I’m about to admit something that is probably common knowledge to those who know me but, I’m about to say it out loud (or, at least, via the internet to a group of unknown blog readers). I am anal. I like structure and I’m a bit obsessive. And, everything in my house...
I’ve been in sales and marketing for almost my entire career. For those of you who have ever flitted around this arm of industry, you may have heard a saying…. “The Last Three Feet” (A term coined by Edward R Murrow). The basic gist of this statement, in a sales...
There’s an interesting dynamic that happens when you officially enter coupledom. It sort of happens without knowing it and although you may not realize it’s happened to you, people around you are taking note. We spent last evening with some friends of ours. They have been dating for a little over...
Yes, I’m making the obligatory Valentine’s Day post. If you write a blog about marriage & relationships, I suppose you can’t let the magical day-of-love pass you by without acknowledging it. Valentine’s Day is not however, celebrated in our house in the most traditional way. I do like the concept of the...
