Marriage

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

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

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

The Family Jar
Happiness And Marriage
by Elizabeth Towne
If a man and woman love each other and are every way suited to marry should they yield to the opposition of his grown daughter? M.A. This question in varying forms comes to me often. It always stirs within me something I used to call righteous indignation

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