Articles – Five Year Marriage®
Will Gettysburg Fix My Writer’s Block?
Writer’s Block – the curse of anyone who writes anything anytime. And I got it. I really thought that, since I wrote the first draft of Five-Year Marriage™ a long time ago, this would be easy. Well, writing […]
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No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage
As I was reading author Laura Pritchett ‘s May 2016 article for the New York Times, I wondered: What would have happened if she has a Five-Year Marriage®? In No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage, Ms. Pritchett described […]
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A Marriage Phrase that Pays?
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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In Maine, Restarting the Book
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 […]
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Longest Married Couple
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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A Different Christmas
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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Could You Be Married FOREVER?
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.
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Marriage Isn’t for Him
“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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Money: One BIG Glitch in Marriage
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 […]
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Just Married! (For the 6th Time)
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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Are You a Marriage Partner or Employee?
What do you want to be in your marriage – the partner or the employee? Don’t see how either one relates to your marriage? Relationship Perspective; Employees Vs. Partners Think of a good law firm. There are the […]
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Giving Up on Husband and Wife
“I’ve been marriage twice,” Marnie, a fifty-ish solepreneur, said before admitting, “It was the same both times – great for the first couple years and then they started to get demanding and possessive. I felt strangled.” Yet, when […]
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