Written by Cathy Meyer Low-conflict marriages account for the lion’s share of divorces every year. And these divorces involve marriages that experts believe can be saved. “One minute, you love the stability and contentment. The next minute, you think it’s not the right marriage, and there are flaws in the marriage that are serious, even […]
Living Together: Myths, Risks & Answers
June 11, 2012 Leave a Comment
Written by Mike McManus To the Presidential candidates, America’s biggest problem is the economy. However, I believe the disintegration of marriage is the nation’s central domestic problem, costing billions of taxpayer dollars for poverty, depression, crime and suicide. This crisis has three elements: 1. The marriage rate has plunged 53 percent since 1970. Of those […]
Minimizing Your Life, Maximizing Your Marriage
May 7, 2012 4 Comments
When it comes down to it, we need just as much relationship counseling for our relationship with our work lives as we do with our spouses. And the latter may be the truly dysfunctional one. Written By Naomi Grunditz America has the highest divorce rate in the world. We also have one of the most […]
Are Affairs Okay?
April 26, 2012 13 Comments
Written by Michele Weiner-Davis Are affairs okay? Yes, at least according to one of the media darlings in the therapy profession, Esther Perel, psychotherapist and author of Mating in Captivity. To Perel, infidelity can spice up a relationship. She is convinced that Americans are too parochial about their views of infidelity and she wants us to […]
Helping Couples in the Divorce Decision-Making “Wilderness”
April 16, 2012 6 Comments
Written by Dr. Alan J. Hawkins Several years ago, I accepted a student into our doctoral family studies program. Tamara Fackrell was a practicing divorce attorney and mediator. She was skilled in her practice at helping her clients deal more effectively with ending their marriages and move on with life. She did this responsibly, not […]
Why Are We Afraid To Talk About The Most Important Things?
March 13, 2012 2 Comments
Written by Richard A. Panzer, Ph.D. In a recent CNN Beliefs Blog, Kerry Egan, a hospice chaplain described her experiences listening to people who were dying. She writes that “they talk about the love they felt, and the love they gave. Often they talk about love they did not receive, or the love they did […]
The Myth of Hopelessness: My Marriage Can’t Be Saved
February 5, 2012 Leave a Comment
Written by Lori Lowe After years of researching marriages, writing a marriage blog and a marriage book, people have asked me the biggest contributor to divorce. I agree with many experts that loss of hope is likely the biggest challenge couples on the brink face. There is a widely held myth that, “My marriage […]
From Cradle to Grave: Government Dependency Hurts Families
January 24, 2012 Leave a Comment
Written by Linda Chavez There is much to warrant optimism about the future of the United States, given the nation’s history of resilience in the face of adversity. But one social trend, the supplanting of the American family by government as the major source of economic security from cradle to grave, may prove more […]
Hammering Away at the Foundations of Marriage
December 15, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Kevin Senich Marriage is disappearing. Its once privileged status has been largely taken away by laws designed to make divorce easy. Once law ceased to protect marriage, it rapidly evolved in the direction of making marriage irrelevant. Legally, it makes increasingly little difference today whether one is married or not. A recent […]
Once Again…
November 30, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Nisa Muhammad Once again the latest news about Black women and divorce is bad news. Research from the National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) at Bowling Green State University, using 2010 Census data, shows that Black women have substantially higher rates of first divorce compared to all other racial and […]
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