Written by David Schel   Applications and tests tell things.  Job applications and interviews determine if someone is qualified to do a particular job.  A school application and SAT score determine if someone is qualified to attend a particular school.  Several times in my career as a life insurance agent I’ve given a client news […]

Written by Chris Gersten   This week my wife and I celebrated our 44th wedding anniversary. We married at 19. We came from different ethnic, religious, social and-economic backgrounds. If anyone had been taking bets, the odds of our marriage succeeding were less than even. Over forty four years we have had a troubled marriage, […]

Written by Nisa Muhammad   The African American community has the lowest marriage rate in America and the highest out of wedlock childbirth rate.  But on top of these depressing numbers, the Census Bureau figures released last month show that while everyone else’s divorce rate went down, Black women between the ages of 50-59 were […]

Written by Michele Weiner-Davis I have a confession; I am a psychotherapist who is an unabashed marriage saver.  But it wasn’t always that way.  When I began doing marital therapy in the late Seventies, I was a newlywed, twenty-something therapist charged with helping couples who were usually older than me and grappling with issues I […]

Written by John Crouch I’m a divorce lawyer in Northern Virginia. Here’s a sample of what I do for a living. I meet with a young lady who tells me, “My husband and I have decided we want a divorce. It will be uncontested, we’re very friendly with each other, and the last thing we […]