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Marriages without Sex (2)

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In our first article on this topic, we looked at the marriage between Sue and James, who had only had intercourse on one occasion two years after the wedding in order to satisfy Sue’s longing for a child. You can read about the courtship and immediate post-wedding experiences of Sue and James in Marriage without Sex (1). So, two years into an unconsummated marriage, Sue allowed James to have sex with her over a period of three nights and the result was a beautiful baby boy. The marriage then resumed its sex-free criteria because Sue was “too busy getting over … Continue reading →

The Passionate Era of Early Marriage

I was talking to a young woman yesterday who is getting married in June. She is excited about the wedding and bubbled over with the details of the wedding ceremony, her fiancé and more. Despite my own exhaustion, I couldn’t help but smile at her enthusiasm and her passion. It reminded me of when my husband and I were in the early stages of planning our wedding – the enthusiasm, the excitement and even the titillation of planning a life together and I started thinking of everything they have to look forward to. It’s Good to Remember It’s good for … Continue reading →

Marriage in the News: The Good & The Bad

When it comes down to news articles about marriage of late, you can hardly scan a new search without seeing dozens of articles focusing on the issue of gay marriage and the legal battles that continue to draw their lines in the sand from coast to coast, including the current challenges to the law in the only state that recognizes gay marriage. While this issue continues to vex and frustrate supporters on both sides of the issue. It doesn’t help the cause when gay couples, which have apparently fought long and hard for the right to be recognized as married, … Continue reading →

The Marriage Blog’s New Millenium

Good morning! Welcome to our 1,000th post here in the marriage blog and let me tell you, it feels so weird to say we’ve been here for a 1000 different entries tackling everything from wedding planning to problem solving to dating and more. It’s been a real pleasure for me to be writing for this topic for nearly a year now and to share it with such an awesome co-blogger as Sherry Holetzky. With that in mind, we thought we’d offer a small treat for our 1,000th blog and we interviewed each other. So without further ado, let me present … Continue reading →

Loving an Angry Man

I’ll never forget a conversation I had with my husband early in our relationship regarding his anger issues. I was trying to ascertain whether or not he understood the impact his volatile temper had on his personal and professional life. When I realized that he didn’t necessarily consider his anger a negative attribute, I asked him, “How do you figure your temper helps you?” His answer was swift and decisive: “People are afraid of me, so they usually do what I want.” He was a little slower in answering my next question: “And how does it hurt you?” Like most … Continue reading →

Hitched and Ditched in Hollywood

HITCHED Eat your heart out Jen. It didn’t happen with a slew of TV cameras around… but it’s still official. “The Bachelor” is now off the market. Well, one of them anyway. Andrew Firestone, who starred in the third season of ABC’s hit reality TV series “The Bachelor” got hitched Saturday… to a woman who had nothing to do with the show that made him famous. Firestone married Serbian model and actress Ivana Bozilovic in a private ceremony at St. Mark’s in the Valley Episcopal Church in Los Olivos, the California town where his family’s winery is based. The marriage … Continue reading →

Homemaking as a Degree

A few weeks back I briefly caught something on the Today Show that’s weighed on my mind ever since. It was about a college that had instituted a new degree: homemaking. Apparently some had taken exception to the fact such a thing was being offered and controversy ensued. Initially I thought it was the radical feminists creating a stink. That’s something they’d find offensive. And to an extent they did factor in, but even more offensive than the concept of a homemaking degree was the fact it was being offered by a Baptist college. (The College at Southwestern.) Feminists felt … Continue reading →

Find Your Passion

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What’s your passion? Do you know? Over the years, my husband and I have struggled with everything from finances to friends to family illness and more, but I’ve never really struggled with my passion. I’ve always known what I love to do and I always make a point of creating time for it, even if I have to work my rear off to make it happen. For a long time, he didn’t have a passion. He used to call it being without a goal, but it wasn’t lacking goals that he lacked – it was lacking something he could passionately … Continue reading →

Mother’s Day Romance

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You may not think Mother’s Day is a day for romance, but I actually think it’s a fantastic opportunity for Dad’s everywhere to appreciate their wives. Celebrating our mothers or being celebrated for our motherhood is wonderful, but being remembered as wives and women is a lot sexier. Mothers are Women Every mother is a woman. She was once a little girl, she became a teenager a young woman and she even became a blushing bride. When she became a mother and a wife, she never stopped being a woman. It may surprise some men to hear this, but even … Continue reading →

Negotiation is the Key to a Successful Relationship

Communication, empathy, and intimacy – these are all important qualities that you need in a relationship. We’ve also talked about flexibility being an important component in creating a successful relationship. You need a key to blend all of these qualities together and that key is negotiation. Life is Fluid & Demands Change When we meet new people, we play roles – whether they are roles created by our culture or roles created by who we want to be. The role may be that of the young urban professional, the dedicated volunteer or something else. We play these roles because we … Continue reading →