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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... stay married?' So I started reading the books. From the earnest title on the front, to the thoughtful author's frown on the back, the news sounded grim: you've got to 'work on it'; 'marriage isn't easy'; what to do when 'passion dies ...
... stay married?' So I started reading the books. From the earnest title on the front, to the thoughtful author's frown on the back, the news sounded grim: you've got to 'work on it'; 'marriage isn't easy'; what to do when 'passion dies ...
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... stay healthy. I looked at whether there were two species in the marriage pond or just one, and asked the hard question about how a marriage ecology survives foreign invaders like work or money or, most challenging of all, children. I ...
... stay healthy. I looked at whether there were two species in the marriage pond or just one, and asked the hard question about how a marriage ecology survives foreign invaders like work or money or, most challenging of all, children. I ...
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... stayed or moved on. It didn't go well. 'He was really cross,' says Natalie, who then gave him a week to think about it and made him sleep in the spare room so he could get used to being alone. Tough, some would say, but fair. At the end ...
... stayed or moved on. It didn't go well. 'He was really cross,' says Natalie, who then gave him a week to think about it and made him sleep in the spare room so he could get used to being alone. Tough, some would say, but fair. At the end ...
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... stay in a safe job or move to a riskier, more lucrative one? Shares or a mortgage? Public or private health? All this decision-making has taught us to keep our options open, because we never know when the next opportunity—or threat—will ...
... stay in a safe job or move to a riskier, more lucrative one? Shares or a mortgage? Public or private health? All this decision-making has taught us to keep our options open, because we never know when the next opportunity—or threat—will ...
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... staying together after getting married. But curiously, some research (mostly from the United States) suggests the exact opposite, that de facto couples who marry have a greater chance of divorcing.6 Social researchers offer three ...
... staying together after getting married. But curiously, some research (mostly from the United States) suggests the exact opposite, that de facto couples who marry have a greater chance of divorcing.6 Social researchers offer three ...
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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...