Tag Archives: Marriage

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  The conquering fool: why men change after marriage

  There isn’t a great deal I remember from my wedding. The ceremony was held at a quaint hotel in Central Jersey and included an open bar, gourmet menu, adequate DJ, and a hundred or so family and close friends. The clergy was a gay Greenwich Village therapist who moonlighted as a Rabbi. We had hoped [...]

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  Down the isle kicking and screaming

  The death of a marriage, much like the death of any living thing of infinite value, demands a post mortem; the process whereby we agonizingly poke, prod, and dissect the remains in search of the particular agency which prompted its demise. If done soberly and thoroughly, this process quite often results in those sought after [...]

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  Mass-marketed happiness and the end of marriage

  For someone who’s seen the ugly side of divorce I’m a staunch defender of marriage. I more than most have every right to be adamantly opposed to the absurd notion of lifelong companionship and “Till death do you part”. But the fact is I fervently believe in matrimony and remain intent on the Queen and [...]

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  Are you engaged or did he shut you up?

  The average length of an engagement in the US has been rapidly declining over the last five years according to the WeddingReport.com. In ’05-’06 the length was 18 months, in ’09-’10 it dropped to just 15 months. Pure speculation here, but I think much of this drop has to do with two things. First, more [...]

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  Seeing daddy love again

  The warnings are frightening. Children from broken homes are more likely to end up divorced  - if they get married at all. Nicholas Wolfinger, from the University of Utah and author of the book Understanding the Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in Their Own Marriages says  “the risk of divorce is 50 percent higher [...]

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  Is it REALLY just flirting?

  I can still remember when I first committed the sixth of Pope Gregory I’s seven deadly sins. I was in Mrs. Heath’s sixth grade class at Charlotte Elementary School in what is still a two red-light town. At this age I had began noticing the opposite sex, which prompted a new outlook about girls as [...]

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  She doesn’t want sex anymore and why it’s your fault

  The recent announcement by Marianne Gingrich of her former husband and 2012 presidential hopeful Newt Gringrich’s appeal to open up their 18 year marriage so he could pursue a sexual relationship with a congressional aide and now wife has unleashed a firestorm of criticism and once again brought the whole necessity of marriage back into [...]

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