Making a Success of Marriage: Planning for Happily Ever After

Making a Success of Marriage: Planning for Happily Ever After

Language: English

Pages: 216

ISBN: 144220009X

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


More than 2 million Americans marry every year, each couple determined to live together happily ever after. Tragically, half of all first marriages fail, and subsequent attempts are even more likely to end in divorce. David Yount knows that lasting wedlock requires more than romantic love. Success depends on a couple's commitment and compatibility of heart and mind to survive the inevitable trials of facing life together. Drawing on decades as a counselor and his own experience as a husband and parent, Yount puts readers on the path to build joyful, loving, and committed relationships.

Yount offers no-nonsense advice on a wide range of issues, including financial budgeting, maintaining health, dealing with in-laws, parenting, sharing responsibilities, establishing common values, and recovering from divorce. He includes questions designed to stimulate reflection and discussion on key issues, such as compromise, religious beliefs, equality in marriage, and more-some surprising. Marriage is the great adventure into the unknown. Making a Success of Marriage is a user's guide to that adventure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

stretch out payments but won’t need to pay a lawyer to make your case for you. If you ever find yourself in this predicament and make this your choice, experts advise that you allocate no more than 25 percent of your combined income to debt repayment. You must list all debts with the court and show that you can pay them off in about three years. When your application is approved, you will make a single payment from each paycheck to the court itself, which will then disburse the money to your

fifty that I awakened to my need to take Becky’s caring advice if I expected to live long and well with her. My wake-up call came as I stood on a subway platform during evening rush hour in Washington, D.C. At the time I suffered from chronic insomnia and was so sleep deprived that I ached from head to foot. It took immense effort to focus my attention on my stressful job and get from task to task and moment to moment. In my family life I had become a short-tempered zombie, increasingly prone

Opposites attract to some extent, but only if the spouses’ lives are enhanced by absorbing the new values a husband and wife bring to their life together. Newlyweds ultimately reconcile themselves to their spouse’s behavioral shortcomings, but not to their flawed values. Over time, a couple can alter the script of their relationship, but they can’t change each other’s character. Nor can they learn to respect a spouse whose values are callous, devious, and self-centered. The seven deadly sins are

couple’s love, both physical and spiritual, never faltered. She died in 1617, delivering their twelfth child. Two years earlier Donne had taken holy orders. He never remarried but became the most renowned preacher and religious poet of his time, installed in 1621 as dean of London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral. In Paradise the first man and woman were unaware of their nakedness. They felt shame only after they had something to hide. The Donnes’ marriage demonstrates that in wedlock there needs to be

spend our income. We can share equally the task of paying bills and keeping track of our expenses. Since we love each other, we no longer need to say “please” and “thank you.” I needn’t bother consulting my partner before agreeing to a business, social, or family commitment that affects us both. We won’t let our parents put pressure on us to be with them during holidays. I expect my spouse to know instinctively what will make me happy. Romance will last and marriage will fulfill all of my needs.

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