ArchiveSeptember 2008

How to Enjoy Being Married for 80 Years

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Wishing a happy 80th anniversary today to Clyde and Marie Barnes, and thank to Salt Lake’s Channle 5, KSL-TV, for letting us know what Marie says is the secret to their success. “We just try to love what the other one does and do it together. If he suggests something, I try to go along with it. And if I suggest something, he seems to do the same.” Sounds to me like Marie listens...

World’s Worst Marriage Advice

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Need some marriage advice to help you through a disagreement? Mine would include this: Stay away from www.sidetaker.com! What in the world are the anonymous folks behind this new website thinking? It’s the “Isn’t My Spouse Awful?” game taken to a revolting new level: invite everyone on the web to take sides in your dispute. Instead of resolving your differences and...

Why Be Married? To Become Yourself Fully

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Here’s a blog post from a woman engaged for the first time in midlife on her surprising discovery.
It’s different when you have love in your life.
It wasn’t the money I was afraid of losing,
it was the opportunity to become who I really am.
It’s not possible to do that when you are
afraid all the time.

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Men Who Stray — and their DNA

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Some men have an easier time being married than others. Now we learn DNA plays a big part in marriage. A brain hormone called vasopressin influences men’s bonding with a sex partner. More vasopressin makes men feel closer and want to stick around. Hasse Walum at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and his research team report on the effects of a variation in the gene that determines the...

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I am a widow who got it right the second time. I have been sharing here since February 14, 2006 what I learned from that experience and from positive psychology, marriage research, and my training as a marriage educator.

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