By Karen DeArmond-Gardner – Being single in your fifties is interesting, to say the least. The rules have changed a bit since I was in high school. Now people go for “coffee” to meet a prospective date to help you decide if you even want to go on a date.
By Tonya Genison-Prince – Wearing sophistication, Ella, a woman in her 60s walked into the domestic violence office just as reluctantly as every younger woman I had ever encountered. My work with Ella was the first time that I had taken notice of any differences between working with women over
By Anita Estes – Less than five years ago, divorce loomed on the horizon for me after thirty years of trying to make the marriage work. My husband and I had started off with a very romantic view of married life as evidenced by our wedding vows—“I am the color
By Rosalinda Randall – Ah, Valentine’s Day; a day of high expectations, especially from women. Can the emotion that Valentine’s Day seems to evoke, be re-created at other times during the year? Why is there so much pressure placed on boyfriends and husbands on this day? Why should they have
By Pat Stockett Johnston – How a Retired Couple Celebrates Valentine’s Day All Year Long- After being retired for several years, my husband and I realized we didn’t connect much during the day. Now our “I Love You Connect List” keeps us touching base and celebrating Valentine’s Day every day
Together For Marriage Marriage works. It makes people happier, live longer, and build more economic security. Children with married parents perform better in school. Read short summary from “The Case for Marriage” here. Click here for new research on “Why Marriage Matters: Thirty Conclusions from Social Science.” Deep down, everyone
By Dr. Linda Mintle – A reader asks: Instead of being happy about the holidays, my 11 year old seems irritable and tired and doesn’t want to talk about Christmas. His dad and I divorced this summer and I am a single parent. Is this why he is so sullen?
By Marta Perrone – What is it like to live in a marriage where when you slip into the bed covers at night, you cling to your side and pillow and feel that sense of loneliness? Your total focus is raising children and perhaps working or building a business but
By Denise Horner Mitnick – When my husband and I were celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary last January, I developed symptoms of a severe gallbladder attack. We traded the winter wonderland resort where we were renewing our love affair for a Philadelphia teaching hospital where I was poked and prodded
By Anita A. Chlipala – By the time I see couples in my office, some of them dislike each other, some wonder if they are better off divorced, and others wonder if their hurt and wounds can be healed. I like to ask them, “On your wedding day, did you
By Anita A. Chlipala – By the time I see couples in my office, some of them dislike each other, some wonder if they are better off divorced, and others wonder if their hurt and wounds can be healed. I like to ask them, “On your wedding day, did you
By Shela Dean Boomer – The Baby Boom Generation has the highest percentage of divorce of any demographic, so much so that the term “Grey Divorce” has been coined to describe the phenomena. There are, of course, many reasons for divorce. When it comes to Boomers, however, for many couples
By Fran Caffey Sandin – The empty nest becomes a test. How strong is our marriage? What have we done so far to keep the spark alive?Complacency will send our love boat floundering on the rocks. So what can we do to keep the passion in our relationship? Several years
By Jackie Silver – Whether you’re already in a loving relationship or looking for love, being in the company of someone special can be very enjoyable. Dr. Diana Kirschner says in her book, Love in 90 Days: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Own True Love, “Love is life’s golden
By Penelope Lemov – I used to joke that senior year in high school was designed to make parents willing to part with their kids. It was my way of taking the edge off the anticipation of the blues I would have once the nest was empty. When the youngest
By Shela Dean – “Dating” is to marriage what “foreplay” is to sex. Dating is the seduction phase of a relationship, the equivalent of the human mating dance where every move is designed to seduce the object of your adoration into loving and wanting you as a mate. In short,
By Beverly Munter – I married an older man and after 51 years of a wonderful marriage, I unfortunately found myself a widow. Yes, there were children and grandchildren. But I was single, healthy and alone in my own home; especially at night when I dreamed of the past and
By Olga Hermans – There is such a great need in this hour that if we who have strong marriages and homes can have vision for helping hurting marriages, our own marriage will even get better. If you have gone through a broken marriage, God can reconstruct your life and
By Laura Petherbridge – “My mother said if I had been a better housekeeper my husband wouldn’t have left me for another woman,” the young woman said, weeping uncontrollably. Overnight she discovered that everything she believed about her marriage and husband was a lie. He had a secret life complete with
By Laura Petherbridge – I hadn’t expected Saturday, April 7th, 1984 to be extraordinary—but it was. That was the day my marriage died. After discovering that our marriage covenant was broken and my husband wanted out of our union, I started crying that day and didn’t stop for a very,
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