Find related content at the end of the article. Share your thoughts by leaving a comment and rating.Here’s an interesting snapshot of the actual divorce statistics, according to Vital Statistics Reports from the National Center for Health Statistics: Per capita divorce rates 1990-2002: 1991, 0.47% 1992, 0.48% 1993, 0.46% 1994, 0.46% 1995, 0.46% 1996, 0.43% [...] [...more]
What would an experienced professional counselor say about the effects of living together before marriage? I asked Dr. Lee Jagers the following questions, and he had these things to say. In your practice, how has cohabitation affected your patients? This is anecdotal at best, but my sense is that those who are cohabiting seem to [...] [...more]
Marriage advice. Who needs it? How many times have you sat there after a fight (or a spirited discussion) with your wife and wondered what just happened? You sit there thinking, “I don’t understand what I did wrong! She’s the one who got all upset, and now I’m in trouble? What happened?” You need additional [...] [...more]
I'm a very strong believer in the power of praise to influence behavior in others. Husbands and fathers have the ability to guide and influence family members and help them on their development path. As leaders, it is important to let people know the things that they do right and encourage them to repeat behaviors that produce good results. Too often, people take the easy way out and focus only on weaknesses or areas of opportunity. [...more]
Many people today are seeing cohabitation as an acceptable alternative to marriage, but is it? Since 1970 the number of heterosexual couples living together outside of marriage has increased over 1000 percent, according to the Rutgers National Marriage Project (NMP). From a NMP study: “Yet cohabitation in place of marriage should be considered a major [...] [...more]
For those of you who are visiting this site because you are getting ready to get married and are looking for a little advice, good on you! The fact is, most men don’t look for advice before they get married, or if they do, they do it last minute. The truth is, marriage preparation begins [...] [...more]
There are many lists of the Top 10 TV Dads. Most of them include such paternal heroes as Steve Douglas, Ward Cleaver and Jim Anderson, and the 'worst' lists tend to include the usual slackers like Al Bundy, Archie Bunker and Peter Griffin. But what about the ones in the middle? What about those unique dads that made a lasting impression on viewers, but somehow they always seem to come up just short of making a list. Not any more! [...more]
Traditional wisdom says that cohabitating before marriage results in a higher likelihood of divorce, a poor impact on children, and a lower standard of marital satisfaction, but is that wisdom true? [...more]
No man wants his wife to be stressed out. If she’s the love of your life, then you definitely want her to help relax, right? Just telling her to relax usually doesn’t work. Here are some things you can do to help her, some pretty common, others a little unconventional. Try a foot massage. Odds [...] [...more]
Are you wondering what to do for your next vacation with your wife? Has she left the planning up to you and now you don't know what to do? Take the following tips into account when planning your next vacation. [...more]
Each Sunday my wife and I sit down and hold a weekly review that we call Companionship Inventory. We’ve been doing this since the beginning of our marriage, just over five years. It’s important to do this with your partner weekly, independent of children. You can call it anything that you want, but it basically [...] [...more]
A very wise man that I know named Richard Moffat gave a lesson on priorities that reflected the duties of a husband. Those priorities are, in order of importance, as follows: 1. A Higher Power. Whether you are Christian, Jew, Muslim or something else you owe your respect and diligence to something outside of yourself. [...] [...more]
