Marriage
129 Articles & Excerpts
A Mystery
Happiness And Marriage by Elizabeth Towne I desire to come face to face with the person or persons who are controlling and influencing my husband against his home and children and myself. He has been estranged from us all for several years, although sleeping under the same roof.
Harmony At Home
Happiness And Marriage by Elizabeth Towne I have recently married for the second time. My husband is a splendid man but his grown up children are not in harmony with me. Good people, but a different point of view. I make no pretensions to perfection, of course, but I do try to do the best lean.
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 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.
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.
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
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
The Pharisee Up-To-Date
Happiness And Marriage by Elizabeth Towne As long as you continue to hug the delusion that you are not to blame for the unpleasant things in your conditions you might just as well profess the old thought as the new. The very fundamental principle of mental science is the statement
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.
A Tale of Woe
Happiness And Marriage by Elizabeth Towne Why is it that, in more than two-thirds of families the wife and mother bears not only the children but the burdens and heartaches? The husband supplies the money (generally not enough), the wife has the care of a growing and increasing family
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.
3. The Importance of Contempt
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell Let's dig a little deeper into the secret of Gottman's success rate. Gottman has discovered that marriages have distinctive signatures, and we can find that signature by collecting very detailed emotional information from the interaction of a couple.
2. Marriage and Morse Code
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell I watched the videotape of Bill and Sue with Amber Tabares, a graduate student in Gottman's lab who is a trained SPAFF coder. We sat in the same room that Bill and Sue used, watching their interaction on a monitor. The conversation began with Bill.
1. The Love Lab
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell How much do you think can be learned about Sue and Bill's marriage by watching that fifteen-minute videotape? Can we tell if their relationship is healthy or unhealthy? I suspect that most of us would say that Bill and Sue's dog talk doesn't tell us much.
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.
Marriage as a Spiritual Path
Listen with Your Heart : Seeking the Sacred in Romantic Love by Eileen Flanagan When marriage is seen as a spiritual path, it expands our ability to love, benefiting more than just two partners. It may serve as a nurturing environment for children. Or it may offer one or both partners the support needed to perform socially beneficial
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.
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
Relax During the Engagement and Wedding
The Rules for Marriage: Time-tested Secrets for Making Your Marriage Work by Sherrie Schneider, Ellen Fein I deally, The Rules for Marriage begin before your wedding day. We believe once you get engaged, a wedding date should be set-no endless engagements. When a man proposes, it should be with a ring and a wedding date within one year, not longer, unless you
Happy Marriages, Do They Exist? Part 3
The Good Marriage: How and Why Love Lasts by Judith S. Wallerstein, Sandra Blakeslee Many therapists seem to think that the people in a faltering marriage are made of real flesh and blood, struggling with tangible problems, while those in a good marriage are something like Balinese shadow puppets.
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