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Is Divorce Just so Five Minutes Ago?

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Is it a time to celebrate? Is it a time to get cynical? Despite the image of Americans as divorce crazy and that you aren’t a real adult until you’ve got at least one divorce under your belt, it seems that the rate of divorce is at its lowest level since 1970. That’s pretty impressive when you consider that 1970 was 2 years before I was born and that the peak in the divorce rate occurred in 1981 when I was just 9 years old. So What Does This Mean? Apparently, that’s still undecided. Even the experts aren’t sure whether … Continue reading →

Has He Been Married Before?

Marriage is a constant commitment to one another to make your relationship work. There are outside factors, however, that can create some challenges along the way. For example, has your husband been married before? With the divorce rates in the United States as high as they are it is no surprise that many men are on marriage number two. What does this mean for you, being wife number two? His first marriage is over and the two of you are very happy and settling into your new life together. However, he has a child from his previous marriage. What this … Continue reading →

The Marriage Blog Week in Review for Jan 20-26

Good morning, if you noticed a curious lack of the marriage blog week in review, I have to plead guilty. I wrote most of it, but yesterday, my daughter had a birthday party and we went out together to attend. It was a roller skating party and for those of you who follow my fitness blog posts, you know that my daughter and I have been roller-skating a great deal frequently, well we enjoyed ourselves roller-skating, but I was whipped after an hour and half on the skates and my legs felt like spaghetti. I’ll talk more about that in … Continue reading →

Have You Found a Good Man?

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. — Mae West Do you have a good man or a bad man? Hopefully you share your life with a good man. I found this quote to be so true. In my first marriage I struggled to get my husband to share his weekend and/or free time with me, was always trying to get him to communicate with me and generally felt there was a serious lack of interest and over all respect. I always knew that I … Continue reading →

Why Marry the Same Person Twice?

Have you ever wondered why anyone would marry the same person twice? We hardly wonder why one person agrees to marry another person – we assume they fall in love or that an arrangement has been reached where marriage is the mutually decided upon choice. But when that couple separates and divorces – why would they then marry each other again? An Imperfect World There can be any number of reasons why a couple once divorced, may reunite. Two reasons offered by two different couples who married, divorced and then remarried offer some insight into this question. I recently discussed … Continue reading →