Marriage

Introduction
Opening to Love 365 Days a Year
by Judith Sherven, Ph.D., James Sniechowski, Ph. D.
We've written Opening to Love 365 Days a Year because we know that most people never receive any meaningful training or preparation for enjoyable, effective dating, or for creating a healthy and vital marriage.

Why We Get Married
Grown-Up Marriage
by Judith Viorst
Most of the women of my generation probably married too young to have grown acquainted with the dread of loneliness. Most of us were taught, however, before we left our teens the dread of unmarriedness.

What is a soul mate?
The Marriage Plan: How to Marry Your Soul Mate in One Year - or Less
by Aggie Jordan, Ph.D.
Most people can get married if they want to by whatever deadline they set. They could be married in two weeks if they simply put an ad in the paper and took the first response. This, of course, is not what you want. You want to marry happily.

His grown children will not accept me. What can I do to keep my marriage?
by Ellen Kreidman, Ph.D
My husband wants to leave me because he's tired of hurting me. His grown children, from a previous marriage, will not accept me and they will not let their kids come around me. My husband wants to be part of his grandchildren's lives.

So Near and Yet So Far
Happiness And Marriage
by Elizabeth Towne
Help me to make things go forward instead of backward. I want to be neat and attractive, with a good head of hair, a good complexion and good health. I want to help my husband so he will fall in love with me to make home beautiful

What Is the Weekend Marriage?
The Weekend Marriage: Abundant Love in a Time-Starved World
by Mira Kirshenbaum
It took years before it finally hit me: Oh my God, I don't have time for my marriage! How could I have missed it? After all, I knew that it's hard to have a relationship if you don't have time for it. Time is the air love needs to breathe.

How to Be a Couple And Still Be Free
How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free
by Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D.
In fifteen years of working with couples in private therapy and workshops, we have found that no matter how unsolvable a problem seems to the couple presenting it, when we help them apply Cooperative Problem Solving a solution can always be found.

Rethinking the Purpose of Marriag
Mindful Loving: 10 Practices for Creating Deeper Connections
by Henry Grayson, Ph.D.
Marriage has served many different purposes throughout recorded history, ranging from procreation, companionship, convenience, status, need, and sometimes love. Yet, at the present time in America, I think we can all agree that our system of marriage

The Law of Individuality
Happiness And Marriage
by Elizabeth Towne
All growth is by learning. All learning comes by the gratification of desire. Truly, experience is not only the best teacher, but the only infallible one. The gratification of desire, good or bad, leaves always one imperishable residue of wisdom.

The Old, Old Story
Happiness And Marriage
by Elizabeth Towne
This is the springtime, when fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love and everybody wants to go a-soul-mating. Consequently my mail is leavened with letters from those who are unhappily married but who are sure they have got their eye on the One who from t

How We Break The Connection
How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It: Finding Love Beyond Words
by Patricia Love, Ed.D., Steven Stosny, Ph.D.
Men are right. The 'relationship talk' does not help. Love is not about better communication. It's about connection. You'll never get a closer relationship with your man by talking to him like you talk to one of your girlfriends.

Defuse Power Struggles
Seven Secrets of a Happy Marriage : Wisdom from the Annals of "Can This Marriage Be Saved?"
by Margery D. Rosen, Editors of Ladies Home Journal
Sean and Cecilia's issues are similar to the ones couples face when one spouse works long hours or travels often, only to come home and feel like a stranger,' said the counselor. 'It's also easy for the spouse at home to establish a routine where she's no

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.

To Be Loved
Happiness And Marriage
by Elizabeth Towne
In order to be loved you must radiate love. Instead of trying to attract the love of others, seek to give your love to others, expecting nothing in return. After a time you will find the unexpected coming to you spontaneously.

The Book They Don't Want You to Read
Life Sentence : The Guy's Survival Guide to Getting Engaged and Married
by J. D. Smith
Marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. -Samuel Johnson. I was sitting on a chairlift one day last winter with a married friend and another guy from the singles line. My friend started telling me one of those You'll never believe what my wife did

Getting Started on a Starter Marriage
The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony
by Pamela Paul
The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony is a pioneering study of first marriages lasting five years or less and ending without children, and of the changing face of matrimony in America.

Hey! You're in a Relationship!
It's (Mostly) His Fault
by Robert Alter, Ph.D
Let's face it, we men don't know squat about relationships. We don't really do relationships. We do work, we do sports, we do cars, we do wars, and we do sex, but we don't really do relationships. Women do relationships. They like relationships.

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,

Some Hints and a Kick
Happiness And Marriage
by Elizabeth Towne
And now, Elizabeth, let me suggest something. Punch up the men a little in the matter of cultivating cleanly habits, etc. Women are preached to eternally on these matters and the men wholly neglected.

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.