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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…

A Taiwanese man who happened to get one of the first PlayStation 5 consoles was forced to sell the device when his wife learned he had lied to her, saying the device was an air purifier. The buyer, Jim Wu talked about his experience on social media. Wu said he arranged to meet the seller in purchase…

An unnamed man in England was ready to propose to his girlfriend. He lit hundreds of tea-light candles in his apartment, poured two glasses of wine, then went to fetch his girlfriend so he could wow her with a proposal. When the couple returned to the apartment, they found it engulfed in flames. The…

On leap day 2020, twenty-nine couples tied the knot at two twenty-nine p.m. in Hell, Michigan, a small town 20 miles outside Ann Arbor. The Rev. Yvonne Williams officiated the mass ceremony. The ceremony was short and sweet, less than 10 minutes, and was held outside the town’s chapel. Couples had to…

Joshua Rogers tells about the time he, his wife, and their two young daughters were listening to Disney songs. The next song was a sentimental love song "I See the Light" from “Tangled.” Joshua walked over to his wife, who was in the kitchen, took her in his arms and started dancing with her slowly.…

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.…

We have all heard the saying, “If momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.” Well new research reported in the New York Times indicates what makes momma happy. The paper reported that their research shows “the happiest of all wives in America are religious conservatives, followed by their religious progressive…

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…

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…

When we take marriage vows we intend for them to be forever. Sometimes they don’t last quite that long. For one couple in Tennessee it didn’t even last overnight. Kate Prichard and James Burton ended up drinking a little too much after their nuptials and at the motel got into a fierce argument. Kate…

As he prepared to graduate with an aviation degree, Gavin Becker decided to use his piloting skills to propose to his girlfriend. He used a snow blower to carve a giant message in the snow on a frozen lake. He wrote the words “Marry Me” surrounded by an oversized heart and offered to take his longtime…

A German man was heartbroken when he lost his wedding ring while gardening. When he told his wife about the loss, she assured him that the ring would eventually reappear. The couple had just celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary, and continued to hope they would find the symbol of their enduring…

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…

Rogelio Andaverde, a Texas husband allegedly staged his own kidnapping. He wanted to hang out with friends but his wife would not give permission. Andaverde arranged for friends to don masks, display guns, and come to his home and take him away while his terrified wife looked on. A good marriage requires…

Larry Ripple stole $3000 from a Kansas City bank at gunpoint. Then he sat down in the bank lobby, told a security guard, “I am the guy you are looking for,” and waited for police. He then confessed to police that he had earlier argued with his wife and told her “he’d rather be in jail than at home.”…

Candace Bushnell, whose writing and personal adventures spawned the Sex and the City TV show, has made a career out of her search for the perfect guy. Now she tells The Times (U.K.) she has given up on men. She says that plenty of her friends share her disappointment with men. Bushnell says, “I say,…

Roy Runyon has been on the city council of Bremerton, Washington for 6 years. With his term due to expire he filed for reelection. On the same day a challenger also filed for the same seat. This was no ordinary challenge since Kim Faulkner, the challenger also happens to be Runyon’s wife of 12 years.…

Jugal Kishore, 25, was going to be married to his beloved. They were about to exchange vows when he was struck by an apparent epileptic seizure. He was rushed to the hospital. The 23-year-old bride was furious that she had not been told of Kishore’s medical condition. She asked a member of her brother-in-laws…

In an HBO documentary, filmmaker Doug Block has followed up on 112 of the weddings he has recorded. He tells about some that have been successes, some that didn’t last. The documentary, 112 Weddings, helps its audience realize that “Happy weddings are easy. Happily ever after is complicated and messy.”…

Michael Roach and Cristy McNally made a very unusual vow when they were married in 1998. The Arizona couple lives in the desert and teaches Buddhist meditation. They vowed, and practiced togetherness on an extreme level. They promised never to stray more than 15 feet from each other. Daytime, nighttime,…

“Every dozen or so seconds in the United States, a woman is beaten, assaulted, or strangled. Domestic violence is the top cause of injury for American women between the ages of 15 and 44.” This is not God’s plan for women. It is not a godly man who treats his wife in such a way. God’s plan is for men…

A new book by Wendy Moore, How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and his Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate, tells the story of Thomas Day, an 18th century author who experimented with raising his own perfect wife. He adopted two prepubescent orphans believing he could…

Former NFL football player turned pastor; Miles McPherson says a lot of people don’t understand the real purpose of marriage. Speaking to a group of college students at Liberty University, McPherson warned the students not to get married because they want to get happy, because that motivation is wrong.…