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Standing for Marriage Even After Divorce

beverlyw — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 16:05:49 +0000

By Lisa Ann McKinley My name is Lisa Ann McKinley and I’m standing for my marriage. This is my testimony about where I am in my marriage and how my faith journey changed after attending the November retreat by Catholics for Marriage Restoration and the Archdiocese of Atlanta. I originally wrote this for my family […]

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Strengthening Marriages in Florida: A Template for Divorce Reform, Complemented by the Latest in Technology

beverlyw — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:24:52 +0000

By Seth Eisenberg In the spring of 2000, Jane and Michael stood hand in hand at the altar, excited yet mindful of the challenges that lay ahead. They were like any other young couple—full of hope, but also cautious about the realities of married life. Two years earlier, Florida had introduced the Marriage Preparation and […]

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Suffer Little Children

beverlyw — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 21:07:40 +0000

by Jason Williams Getting older is weird, at least if you have kids. It’s like doing 30 on the Interstate. Everything else is moving around you so fast that you feel like you’re standing still. I see it the most in my kids’ clothes. Pants, dresses, etc., start out too big so they can grow […]

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The Latest Scare Cards to Prop up No-Fault Divorce

beverlyw — Fri, 24 May 2024 17:07:52 +0000

By Beverly Willett After a rash of rumors about a Republican plot to end unilateral no-fault divorce, a writer for The Atlantic has weighed in. The piece devotes exactly one paragraph to the claim, asserting that “Texas has a chance of actually doing it” because Republicans occupy top seats in the executive branch and control […]

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How to Divorce-Proof Your Marriage

beverlyw — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:37:03 +0000

Janice Shaw Crouse, Ph.D. We’ve all seen shocking divorces: those where the couple had everything going for them and seemed to be perfectly matched. From the outside, such couples seem fine and there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong. On the other side, we’ve seen couples who shock us by staying together when they seem […]

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After a rough divorce, last week I stumbled into a World Marriage Day celebration. . .

beverlyw — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 18:23:32 +0000

By Beverly Willett I got off to a slow start last Sunday morning, but realized I could still make the 11:30 a.m. mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Savannah’s Roman Catholic Mother Church. So I hurried off, parked, and quickly ducked inside, clueless about what awaited me. Each weekend mass is well-attended, […]

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The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Family in 2019: Save Your Marriage

beverlyw — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 12:20:17 +0000

By Michele-Weiner Davis As a veteran marriage therapist with nearly 40 years of experience, I am one of a group of professionals who have found that the format of the traditional “60-minute” therapy session repeated week after week is impractical-even inherently flawed. Instead I, along with a number of my colleagues, now offer two-day couples […]

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Friendship Before Sex: A New Plan for Finding Love

beverlyw — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 12:28:37 +0000

By Sara Goff “Young love is a flame; very pretty, very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deepburning, unquenchable.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher (from RQ Relationship Intelligence by Richard A. Panzer) In my late twenties, I found myself in a two-year […]

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Loving Service — The Basic Principle of Magnanimous Marriage

beverlyw — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:42:13 +0000

By Krsnanandini Devi Dasi, CFLE A few years ago, my husband, Tariq and I presented a seminar on the concept of what we term “Magnanimous Marriage.” In such a marriage, husband and wife are actual benefactors for one another. Benefactor is defined as a kindly helper, a person who benefits and supports another. “A happy […]

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Marriage is Not Dead – And Our Fascination With the Royal Wedding Proves It

beverlyw — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 01:01:39 +0000

By Beverly Willett I thought marriage was supposed to be dead in the United States. So what’s up with the lovefest over the Royal Wedding? After all, the marriage rate is barely at 50%, down from 72% in 1960. Since all 50 states adopted no-fault divorce, the divorce rate skyrocketed, too. It’s now at 40-50%, […]

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