Tag Archives: happiness

A Love that Perserveres

Joe operated on the assumption that if the pilot light goes out, the furnace won’t heat. If the love is gone, it’s gone. Many people like Joe feel that when the emotion vanishes, the marriage is over, terminated, finished, kaput. A lasting marriage is energized by a steady flow of a special kind of love [...]

Marriage Maintenance

Many people rarely think about improving their marriage unless it is in trouble. “People get so caught up in careers, raising kids and satisfying their own souls,” says Gloria Richfield, co-author of Together Forever, “that they forget their marriage needs to be fed too.” Over the years that I have been involved in marriage education [...]

Preventing the Death of Your Marriage

A woman had gone through four marriages. First, she married a millionaire, then she married a film producer, then she married a butler, and then she married a funeral director. Somebody asked, “Why did you marry all of those guys?”  She said, “Well I married 1 for the money, 2 for the show, 3 to [...]