Written by Jason Williams   We are a nation in crisis. Our great-grandchildren are already in debt, nearly ten percent of the American workforce is still unemployed, and the stock market makes Charlie Sheen look like Mr. Rogers. But if the economy improves, everything’s going to be okay, right? Well…no. America’s greatness does not lie […]

Written by Alan J. Hawkins, Ph.D.   This past summer a team of research assistants here at Brigham Young University helped me collect information about government efforts to help couples form and sustain healthy marriages and relationships. We collected information on legislation and government-supported educational initiatives in all 50 states (and Washington D.C.), including funding […]

Written by Krsnanandini Devi Dasi & Tariq Saleem Ziyad   The verdict is in; the diagnosis given.  Marriage is in trouble in America.  Marriages everywhere are ailing or failing to take place.  The remedy adopted by too many troubled couples is divorce.   The trouble we’re in also applies to those who cohabit, break up and then […]

Written by Michele Weiner-Davis   In my three-decade therapy practice with couples, I wish I had a penny for each time I heard someone say, “If my spouse ever has an affair, I’m outta here.”  But then reality happens.  His or her spouse strays.  John Lennon once said, “Life is what happens to you while […]

Written by Mike McManus   In recent weeks we have been bombarded with stories of powerful men who think they can cheat on their wives with impunity. Most recently, it’s been Rep. Anthony Weiner unbelievably sending body part pics of himself to women he never met.  That on the heels of learning Arnold Schwarzenegger had […]