Marriage

Marriage Is
I Like Being Married: Treasured Traditions, Rituals and Stories
by Michael Leach, Therese J. Borchard
The most beautiful things in the world are not seen or touched, they are felt with the heart. -Helen Keller. My husband is my best friend. When I wake up and look at him next to me, I smile. He is a good man and a gift of God to me. -Carmen Rodriguez.

She Says That She Can't Stand My Mood Swings
by Ellen Kreidman, Ph.D
Ellen: I have been a stockbroker for over 15 years and my job causes me a lot of anxiety and stress. My wife has threatened to leave me for the first time in our marriage. She says that she can't stand my mood swings, which are tied to the stock market.

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life Together
The Thoroughly Modern Married Girl : Staying Sensational After Saying "I Do"
by Sara Bliss
One of your first big decisions as a dynamic duo is to decide what your new handle will be. Some of you Married Girls were ready to link your first names with his last the very second Your Guy first sent a sexy smile your way.

To Be Happy Though Married
Happiness And Marriage
by Elizabeth Towne
Some dear relatives of mine proposed Ada as my future bride. I like Ada and I gladly accepted the offer, and I mean to wed her about the middle of this year. Is this a working of the Law of Attraction? I want to make our married life happy and peaceful.

Chapter 1
The 7 Best Things Happy Couples Do... plus one
by John Friel, Ph.D., Linda Friel
After twenty-one years of living together in a marriage, decades of scientific theories and data about relationships, and an amalgam of what we've gathered from our years of working with people in therapy settings, no matter how we think of them or try

Love Is Not Enough
I Love You More: How Everyday Problems Can Strengthen Your Marriage
by Les Parrott III, Ph.D., Dr. Leslie Parrott
Like most couples deeply in love, Les and I longed to find ways to make our love endure even before we were married. Part of the impetus for our vision came from reading A Severe Mercy, the real-life love story about Sheldon and Davy Vanauken, two lovers

Inside the Seattle Love Lab: The Truth about Happy Marriages
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
by John M. Gottman, Ph.D.
It's a surprisingly cloudless Seattle morning as newlyweds Mark and Janice Gordon sit down to breakfast. Outside the apartment's picture window, the waters of Montlake cut a deep-blue swath, while runners jog and geese waddle along the lakeside park.

Marriage Contracts
Happiness And Marriage
by Elizabeth Towne
That article of yours, 'So Near and Yet So Far,' has worried me to an extent I am ashamed of. To my 'judgment' that article is disingenuous. It is not so much that you jumped on that poor soul with hob-nailed shoes, but that you formulated

Think INSIDE the Square to Keep Those Love Fires Burning
by Dorothy Thompson
I was sitting in my sanctuary in my back yard contemplating the world's mysteries and minding my own business when a fellow neighbor walked up to me and started a conversation. As he looked a little distressed, I invited him into my little spiritual oasis

The Heart of Woman
Happiness And Marriage
by Elizabeth Towne
My wife has fallen in love with another man. She keeps house for me and I am trying to show her all the love I can but it seems to have no effect upon her. I love her dearly and desire to win her back.

The Truth about Divorce
Happiness And Marriage
by Elizabeth Towne
In January Psychic and Occult Views and Reviews the editor, M.T.C. Wing, presents a view of Wives and Work which is anything but an occult view of the subject. He evidently still clings to the old notion that man was made for the family

ONE
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
Some years ago, a young couple came to the University of Washington to visit the laboratory of a psychologist named John Gottman. They were in their twenties, blond and blue-eyed with stylishly tousled haircuts and funky glasses.

Myth of the Marriage
The Total Marriage Makeover: A Proven Plan to Revolutionize Your Marriage
by David Clarke, Ph.D.
Let me take you back in time to the early days of your relationship. Can you picture those days? You meet, and you both know there's a spark of mutual interest and desire. You're clicking as you've never clicked with anyone before.

From Predicting Divorce to Preventing It
Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage
by John M. Gottman, Ph.D., Julie Schwartz Gottman, Ph.D., Joan DeClaire
It's been more than a decade since John and his colleagues at the University of Washington (UW) first announced their discovery: Through the power of careful observation and mathematical analysis, the team had learned to predict with more than 90 percent

Shaping Your Mate
by Bob Grant, L.P.C.
Some years ago, while building my counseling practice, I was constantly looking for the most effective strategies for my clients. The theories in Graduate School were very interesting, but I also yearned for the practical applications.

She Is Constantly Putting Herself Down
by Ellen Kreidman, Ph.D
I have only been married for 2 years and I really need your help. My wife is a wonderful woman. My problem is that she is constantly putting herself down. She’s not happy with her weight, her looks or her brains. She says things like, I’

Walking Down the Aisle without Losing Your Mind
I Do but I Don't
by Kamy Wicoff
I will never forget the first time I saw myself in a proper wedding dress. I walked into the fitting room wearing jeans, boots, a T-shirt, and, believe it or not, green underwear. I emerged before a wall of brightly lit mirrors to see . . . a bride.

Looking for the Positive
by James Lucoff
Marriage researcher John Gottman has made an intensive study of how people interact in their relationships. Not surprisingly, he found that in flourishing marriages the participants express more positive, appreciative comments toward one another than

Why Be a Couple and Free?
How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free
by Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D.
Why did you pick up this book? Are you intrigued to think it is possible to be a couple and still be free? How can you be true to yourself and true to your partner at the same time? If you honor yourself, will your partner leave?

Date Your Mate
Kid CEO: How to Keep Your Children from Running Your Life
by Ed Young
The final, and perhaps most important, idea I want to introduce in this first chapter about setting the agenda is the need to date your mate. Yes, that means actually going out on dates the way you did before you were married.