Divorce and Religion
Today I want to consider why religion doesn’t help marriages last. If religion did anything it should at least positively affect the divorce rate. Statistics show that the divorce rate is virtually...
View ArticleThe Ineffectiveness of Traditional Marriage Counseling
Today I am thinking about the ineffectiveness of traditional marriage counseling. In the November 1995 issue of Consumer Reports magazine a survey revealed that only 16% of the readers who received...
View ArticleThe Cure for the Walk-Away Wife Syndrome
Michele Weiner-Davis on her web site, DivorceBusting.com, introduces the world to the concept of the “Walk-Away Wife Syndrome” which Davis incorrectly spells without the hyphen. The idea is that a wife...
View ArticleSexual Addiction for Dummies
The experts don’t agree on the existence of a condition called “sexual addiction,” but I won’t pontificate my position. The question I have is “what difference does it make?” Regardless of whether...
View ArticleWay to go, Tampa!
Congratulations, Tampa, Florida, on winning the competition for the next home of the Republican National Convention! No doubt your location, world-class international airport, parks, hotels,...
View ArticleMarriage Problem Primer
This is a masters degree in marriage and family therapy talking and over 32 years of marriage. You found your first love. There was an engagement. A wedding. A marriage. Now you have left your first...
View ArticleThree Marriage Policies
There are three universals in marriage that can help guide you around trouble in your marriage. Willard Harley calls them policies. The Policy of Radical Honesty. Don’t hold back anything real from...
View ArticleMarriage 101
Recently Ellen McCarthy wrote an article for The Washington Post, The Marriage Myth: Why do so many couples divorce? Maybe they just don’t know how to be married. Dated June 27, 2010, McCarthy...
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