The Five-Year Marriage is a ground-breaking new concept for marriage. Every five year the couple spiritually ends one marriage and begins a new one – with new agreements and goals
Is there such a thing as a marriage phrase that pays? Pays what? Pays in fostering more love, good feelings, a sense of partnership? While we all like hearing “I Love You” in marriage, it might not be […]
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Today I’m sitting in the living room of Windward Cottage#5 in Town Hill. I know this is vacation, but a lot happened recently about The Five-Year Marriage™ book, so I took the original manuscript (which I copyrighted in […]
Read More In Maine, Restarting the Book
This is a cute story about the longest married couple in the United States. After eighty-three years, the bride still laughs when she reveals that her father didn’t want the marriage so they eloped…so sweet… (Photo: The Betar […]
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I had a different Christmas this year. After years of hosting Christmas dinners for my mom, the parents of a friend, and Joseph’s siblings, things changed. My mom passed, my friend’s parents (with whom we usually spent Christmas […]
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Fifty eight years isn’t forever, but it could seem that way to some people. But not to Arlene Alda, married to actor Alan Alda for 58 years. She shares some tips about getting married and staying married.
Read More Could You Be Married FOREVER?The Sabotaging Downside of Apology Can you overdo apologies? YES! Should you stop apologizing? Maybe! Nothing can replace a good and heartfelt “I’m sorry” when you’ve made a mistake, done something wrong or hurt someone’s feelings. It can […]
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“Marriage isn’t for me,” wrote Seth Adams Smith shortly after his first wedding anniversary. Having been married only a year and a half, I’ve recently come to the conclusion that marriage isn’t for me. Now before you start […]
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My partner & I have a non-traditional marriage. Every five years we renegoiate our marriage agreements. We recently went through the renegoation process. Working On Our Marriage Contract Before we got married last month, we worked out the […]
Read More Money: One BIG Glitch in Marriage
We waited until almost the last minute. Though it was early September and we had an intention and the celebrant, we had no place to go. Among the places we called was the world-renowned Longwood Gardens. They were […]
Read More Just Married! Starting Our Next Five-Year Marriage
Wedding #6 almost didn’t happen. For months Joseph and I worked on planning the marriage. By late August, while we were on vacation, everything was in place. We were excited about going forward together – again. But when […]
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