Marriage
133 Articles & Excerpts
Part 1
Feeling Good Together; The Secret to Making Troubled Relationships Work by David D. Burns, M.D. We all have someone we can't get along with - whether it's a friend or colleague who complains constantly, a relentlessly critical boss, an obnoxious neighbor, a teenager who pouts and slams doors (all the while insisting she's not upset)
Growing Up Together: Midlife Challenges and Midlife Relationships
The Marriage Benefit: The Surprising Rewards of Staying Together by Mark O'Connell, Ph.D. This is a book about marriage, but it's not the kind of 'how to make your marriage better' book that we have come to expect. This is a book about how stretching the boundaries of what we imagine to be possible can turn our intimate relationships
The Answer
Fascinating Womanhood by Helen Andelin How to Make Your Marriage a Lifelong Love Affair. What makes a woman fascinating to her husband? What is happiness in marriage for a woman? These are just two of the questions Helen B. Andelin answers in the bestselling classic that has already brought
Getting Under way
An Unfinished Marriage by Joan Anderson In this moving sequel to her national bestseller A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson explores the challenges of rebuilding and renewing a marriage with her trademark candor, compassion, and insight.
How to Get on in the World: A Ladder to Practical Success by Major A.R. Calhoon Mention has been made of the great influence on character of the right kind of a home, in childhood and youth. The right kind of a home depends almost entirely on the right kind of a wife or mother.
Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles by C. W. Saleeby, M.D. Let us clearly understand, in the first place, that in this chapter we discuss principles and averages, and that, supposing our conclusions be accepted as true, they cannot for a moment be quoted as decisive in their bearing upon special cases.
Evening Round-Up by William Crosbie Hunter A wife is either a partner or an employee. If a partner, she has a right to the fifty-fifty split on profits; if an employee she is entitled to her wages. A thrifty husband is commendable, but a show me what you did with that money
Quit Your Worrying! by George Wharton James I now approach a difficult part of my subject, yet I do it without trepidation, fear, or worry as to results. There are, to my mind, a few fundamental principles to be considered and observed, and each married couple must learn to fight the battle
The Nervous Housewife by Abraham Myerson, M.D. Did the semi-mythical Cave Man (who is perhaps only a pseudo-scientific creation) on his return from a prehistoric hunt find his leafy spouse all in tears over her staglocythic house-cleaning, or the conduct of the youngest cave child?
Character
by Samuel Smiles The character of men, as of women, is powerfully influenced by their companionship in all the stages of life. We have already spoken of the influence of the mother in forming the character of her children.
Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women by George S. Weaver Our present theme for our young female friends is Marriage. In treating it we feel impressed with its solemn and practical importance. Talk of Marriage as we will, it is a serious and stern reality.
Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness by John Mather Austin It is not impossible that some may doubt the propriety of introducing into the pulpit the subject which will claim our attention this evening. Marriage is a topic of so much every-day conversation; it is so often and habitually treated as a light
Getting Married
by George Bernard Shaw There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. If the mischief stopped at talking and thinking it would be bad enough; but it goes further, into disastrous anarchical action.
The Family and it's Members by Anna Garlin Spencer With such helpful narrowing of choices there would still remain many dangers to be avoided if the divorce statistics are to be held within bounds of social safety.
The Physiology of Marriage: The Musings of an Eclectic Philosopher on the Happiness and Unhappiness of Married Life
by Honoré de Balzac Marriage is not an institution of nature. The family in the east is entirely different from the family in the west. Man is the servant of nature, and the institutions of society are grafts, not spontaneous growths of nature. Laws are made to suit manners,
Woman; Man's Equal by Thomas Webster The publishers of WOMAN MAN'S EQUAL conscientiously feel that they are placing before the public the discussion of one of the most important topics of the day; and they indulge the strong conviction that the author of this little volume presents
The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book: Twelve Steps to a Happy Marriage by Various The articles that are printed in this book made what was in my opinion the most important, the most constructive, series on a single subject that Good Housekeeping has published in the quarter century and more that I was its editor.
Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
by Voltaire I came across a reasoner who said: 'Engage your subjects to marry as soon as possible; let them be exempt from taxes the first year, and let their tax be distributed over those who at the same age are celibate.
Honoring the Past While Moving Past It
Not Your Parents' Marriage: Bold Partnership for a New Generation by Jerome Daley It's not just the two of you and God. The truth is, you bring your family into your relationship in more ways than you realize. Yet God has plans for your marriage that differ from the expectations of your parents' generation.
Why Every Marriage Gets Stuck
How We Love: A Revolutionary Approach to Deeper Connections in Marriage by Milan Yerkovich, Kay Yerkovich Are you tired of arguing with your spouse over the same old issues? Do you dream of a marriage with less conflict and more intimacy? Are you struggling under a load of resentment? The key to creating a deeper bond in your marriage may lie buried in your
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