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What Exactly Is Marriage? "Marriage is when you get to keep your girl and don't have to give her back to her parents" -Eric, six years old "When somebody's been dating for a while, the boy might propose to the girl. He says to her, 'I'll take you for a whole life, or at least until we have kids and get…

Pastors today are faced with more work, more problems, and more stress than any other time in the history of the church. This is taking a frightening toll on the ministry, shown by the statistics below: Pastors: · Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout…

I will never forget Ted Stone

When traveling among the Alps in a dense mist, we have seemed to see vast lakes without a shore, crags that appeared like the battlements of heaven, and awful depths that thrilled us with horror. Yet much of that mystery was only caused by the mist. When we journeyed the same way on a bright morning,…

Joshua Rogers remembers what he felt like when his parents divorced. He said it felt like a death, his parents had died. He became an orphan of sorts -- a little less loved. https://apple.news/A5VVtNcGwSwWvjHVljWnxmg Parents can never forget the ways their relationship with their spouse affects the children.…

One of the five myths of marriage discussed in a Washington Post article on marriage is that marital affairs are the main cause of divorce. As bad as an affair is for a marriage, destroying the foundation of trust, the affair is typically a result rather than the cause of a disintegrating marriage. “In…

In Saratoga Springs, New York, a European company has established the first divorce hotel in the United States. Using a pattern first established in Amsterdam in 2012 a couple can check into the Gideon Putnam Resort on Friday as a married couple, and check out on Sunday, Single. What God intended as…

One of the keys to a marriage’s survival is effective communication skills. Communication is not completed until the recipient receives the message intended by the sender. A woman in India has filed for divorce from her husband because his communication is being received differently than he intends.…

When the pandemic began, many experts predicted it would have a negative impact on relationships and lead to more break ups and divorces. Susan Albers, a psychologist with the Cleveland Clinic said the actual results have been more mixed. Albers said for couples experiencing a lot of tension before the…

Tarek and Christina El Moussa of the hit reality show Flip or Flop were, by all appearances, the perfect couple. That was until reports revealed they had separated from each other during several months of season 3’s filming. It seems that reality television is hardly reality at all. Producers of the…

Mary Ziegler and Bill Henrichs were high school sweethearts who later married. Things didn’t work out however, and 23-years ago they were divorced. They kept in touch and remained friends. Then last year, Bill discovered that his kidneys were failing. All his family and some 40 family friends were tested…

Just last year actor Thomas Middleditch revealed that he and his wife, costume designer Mollie Gates were swingers, accepting other sexual partners. He said that swinging saved their marriage. It turns out that Mollie was not as enthralled with the extra-marital sex as he. They are getting a divorce.…

As the divorce rate for young people is dropping, the rate for people 50 and over doubled from 1990 to 2014. Late-life divorce (also called “silver” or “gray” divorce) is becoming more common, and more acceptable. In 2014, people age 50 and above were twice as likely to go through a divorce as in 1990,…

When a Michigan couple learned that they broke the law when they married two years earlier, they asked a judge to void the first marriage and then marry them again. Philip Timmer and Trish Stewart were both divorced with children from previous marriage when they met in 2010. They married in 2016, but…

According to Noel King of NPR, “One in 5 school children struggles with anxiety, and almost half of them experience at least one serious stressor at home - something like divorce or poverty or a parent's addiction.”—Jim L. Wilson https://www.npr.org/2020/02/20/807665085/mindfulness-transforms-culture-at-high-needs-elementary-school…

Psychologist and researcher Judith Wallerstein spent 25 years studying the results of the shift in divorce laws that occurred in the 1970’s. No fault divorce swept the nation beginning in 1969, and by 1980, the divorce rate had doubled. Wallerstein was asking the question, “what about the children?”…

Bruce McConville, a 55 year-old Canadian businessman, from Ottawa, Canada, used a very creative excuse to avoid paying his wife spousal and child support, as part of their divorce settlement—he burnt it! He told a judge in the Ottawa Supreme Court that he withdrew 1 Million Canadian Dollars ($750,000),…

In the Paramount show Younger, a 40-year-old woman attempts to return to the book publishing industry after raising her daughter. Forced to find a job after learning she is getting a divorce, she is unable to find work after her absence from the industry for 15 years. Because of her young-looking face,…

Eric White dropped out of high school and was homeless at the age of 15, but his life is drastically different today, after he persevered on and refused to give up. White’s parents divorced when he was in ninth grade, and he was forced to drop out of school to help his mother pay the bills. When his…

The apostle Paul, in 1 Corinthians 6:1-8, informs us of the right way for Christians to settle disputes – that is actually better for us to suffer wrong, or be defrauded, rather than pursue litigation. Unfortunately, not everyone pays heed to that advice—Jim L. Wilson and Derick Wilson David Ostram,…

Jack Whitaker was always kind to people and lived a normal life as a contractor in West Virginia. He was focused on the needs of others, including his wife Jewell and his granddaughter Brandi. Everyone thought that Jack and Jewell had the perfect marriage. Jack loved his wife dearly and she him. Each…

According to Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor for National Review, families provide the foundation people need to be successful in a challenging and chaotic world. Ponnuru says that abundant evidence shows that children generally do better academically, economically, and behaviorally “when they are raised…

A study published in the journal PLOS One reports that married people have better physical health at older ages than unmarried people. One of the biggest differences is married people tend to walk fasten ad have a stronger grip. The researchers studied English adults over age 50, and a group of American…

In his YouTube video “Knowing Your Why?” (8 minutes into the clip) Comedian Michael Jr. says “That thing from your past, you never met your Dad before, or your divorce, whatever it is God didn’t cause it, but he will use it in preparation for whatever he has you to do, because somebody may need to hear…