ArchiveOctober 2009

Marriage without Compliments?

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Want to know what I really like about this advice I give you and usually follow myself, to Assume Love? It leads to some really amazing discoveries. The one I write about in today’s My Husband Made Me Eat It column at Second Helping Online is that the failure to compliment can be a great way to show love.
Are you making any great discoveries like this from assuming love in your own marriage?

Free Honeymoons Save Marriages

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Yahoo! put it in their odd news category today, but I think it’s clever. A state can end up spending a lot of money on food and social services when a marriage fails. So why not offer second honeymoons to struggling couples, if marriage counseling suggests it will help? That’s what the state of Terengganu (that’s in Malaysia, between Singapore and Cambodia) is doing. The two...

Tell Your Infidelity Story

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Received this request from True Entertainment via the Smart Marriages newsletter today. Infidelity is among the most delicate and difficult experiences a couple faces. Yet, while statistics show that more than 50% of all adults have cheated on their partners, it is still a very isolating experience. True Entertainment, an Emmy Award winning production company who has produced TV documentaries for...

Define Fair Class for Business Partner Couples

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Whether you call yourselves copreneurs, couplepreneuers, or a mom and pop business, every relationship feels unfair at times, and so does every business partnership. How can you tell for sure when it’s time to get out? How can you get your mate to carry more of an unjust load? How do you balance child care and cooking against cold-calling and bookkeeping? How can you work things out when...

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Childhood Cancer Survivors Less Likely to Marry

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Double bad luck: people who have cancer as children are less likely to marry than those who don’t. Around 70% of Americans marry by the time they are 30 years old. But not childhood cancer survivors. Only half of them do, according to a large follow-up study reported today. Why not? Short stature, poor physical functioning, and cognitive problems are the factors more common among the people...

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I am a widow who got it right the second time. I have been sharing here since February 14, 2006 what I learned from that experience and from positive psychology, marriage research, and my training as a marriage educator.

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