Being Married: Your guide to a happy modern marriageAllen & Unwin, 28 մյս, 2014 թ. - 288 էջ Marriage should be a dying institution, right? It's no longer legally or morally necessary and the divorce rates have made cynics of us all. Yet every year hundreds of thousands of optimistic couples front up to a church, temple, celebrant, mosque or synagogue. Being Married asks the big questions: 'Why marry?' and, once you do, 'How do you stay happily married?' Sharon Aris talks to marriage experts and married couples about what they're doing right, what they've done wrong and how they make it work. She gets into their beds and their bank accounts and shares the low-down on the fights, the negotiations and the making up. And she discovers that living 'happily ever after' is easier than you think. Being Married combines loads of real life case studies with the very latest local and international research to look at what really happens within a marriage - like sex, or the lack of it, what happens when the 'sickness' in 'in sickness and health' rears its ugly head, as well as all the outside influences that can impact on your nuptial happiness, including the marriage breakpoint trifecta: money, work, and baby makes three, or four, or five... Loaded with information, humour, commonsense advice and some facts that might surprise you, Being Married is the survival guide for the twenty-first century marriage. |
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... become marriage promoters. 'Get married,' we tell our friends, 'You'll have the best time.' And it has, somehow, made a difference to our relationship. How and why fascinates me. Is there something transforming in saying vows? Or is it ...
... become marriage promoters. 'Get married,' we tell our friends, 'You'll have the best time.' And it has, somehow, made a difference to our relationship. How and why fascinates me. Is there something transforming in saying vows? Or is it ...
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... becoming more interesting to each other wanting the relationship to succeed.9 It's hard to disagree with anything on this list. But here's the tricky bit: how do you actually live that today? It looks easy written down, but somehow I ...
... becoming more interesting to each other wanting the relationship to succeed.9 It's hard to disagree with anything on this list. But here's the tricky bit: how do you actually live that today? It looks easy written down, but somehow I ...
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... day? Are we just a generation of Muriel Heslops looking to marry because it would make us someone important? I don't think we're so hopeful. A post-divorce generation, we know if we marry to become someone the 1 Why Marry?
... day? Are we just a generation of Muriel Heslops looking to marry because it would make us someone important? I don't think we're so hopeful. A post-divorce generation, we know if we marry to become someone the 1 Why Marry?
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... become someone the statistics don't offer good odds—at least a third of all marriages end in divorce. Still, we're not cynical of relationships either (even if we have good reason to be) but we are wary. We've seen the marriage ...
... become someone the statistics don't offer good odds—at least a third of all marriages end in divorce. Still, we're not cynical of relationships either (even if we have good reason to be) but we are wary. We've seen the marriage ...
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... becomes one of the big events in a lifetime of choices. It's certainly one of the biggest choices we've made thus far. So it's not surprising we feel a little daunted, especially because it's so optional, which somehow makes the idea ...
... becomes one of the big events in a lifetime of choices. It's certainly one of the biggest choices we've made thus far. So it's not surprising we feel a little daunted, especially because it's so optional, which somehow makes the idea ...
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2 Nice Day for a White Wedding | 35 |
3 The Honeymoon is Over | 52 |
4 The Art of Marital Warfare | 72 |
Can we be on the same side? | 93 |
Are we having fun yet? | 123 |
7 Show me the Money | 150 |
8 All Work No Play? | 172 |
Children | 195 |
10 The Sticking Point | 226 |
Having It All | 256 |
Notes | 268 |
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Էջ 35 - N. wilt thou have this Woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour, and keep her in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?
Էջ 150 - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Էջ 35 - Wilt thou have this Woman to thy wedded Wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour her, and keep her in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?
Էջ 35 - Wilt thou have this Man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony ? Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honour, and keep him in sickness and in health ; and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?
Էջ 10 - Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers.
Էջ 18 - It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time.
Էջ 132 - Velde (1930: 148) echoed this sentiment: "For the man who neglects the love-play is guilty not only of coarseness, but of positive brutality; and his omission can not only offend and disgust a woman, but also injure her on the purely physical plane. And this sin of omission is unpardonably stupid.'" However, the unavoidable difficulty with this particular model of heterosexual sex is the question of how to distinguish female reluctance that is genuine disinterest or revulsion from female reluctance...