Articles – Five Year Marriage®

Aniston: Women, Marriage and Divorce

“It’s a very storybook idea,” Jennifer Aniston says of traditional marriage in a recent Elle magazine interview. She calls marriage a “happily ever after” fantasy. Her reason is valid: “I think for some people it does work…but everybody’s […]

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DeNiro and Hightower: One-Sided Divorce?

Robert De Niro and Grace Hightower recently made headlines – and not for a happy reason. The famed actor filed for a divorce from his long-time spouse after 20 years of marriage. This is the second time DeNiro has […]

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Would You Walk Away on Your Wedding Day?

Casey thought her wedding day would be the happiest day of her life. So, on the night before she was to marry long-time love, Alex, she was totally unprepared for the shock of her life. While celebrating with […]

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Relationship Empowerment can be Found with The Five Year Marriage®

Wives Aren’t Born – They Are Made “Long before it’s time for Mom to help plan the wedding dress or Dad to give the bride away, it’s time to be raising a future wife in your home. Because […]

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The Marriage Survey

I need your help! So that I can give you the best information, tips, etc. I want to know more about the obstacles, challenges and joys that you experience in marriage. So I created this survey. It’s totally […]

FREE SEMINAR! Ending Marriage’s Bad Rap

FREE Seminar: Ending Marriage’s Bad RapShifting the Marriage Paradigm with the Five-Year Marriage® Are you getting married…or thinking about it?Are you living together and nervous about taking the BIG next step?Have you been married ten or more years and […]

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…AND a Honeymoon!

The wedding is over, and it was a beautiful day. Now Joseph Eagle and I are starting our new marriage…and doing it with a honeymoon! Realistically speaking, and from the perspective of two self-employed people, we had no […]

Wedding#7

What a wonderful wedding day! While Joseph and I have, to-date, have a wedding ceremony to start our new marriage, we don’t usually have a party. However, over the summer a few things happened that were either sad, […]

Apache Wedding Blessing

Last week Joseph and I met with Pattie Painter, the celebrant for our September 22 nuptials. She asked us about different readings, suggested some and also told us we could find others on her Vows of the Heart […]

Negotiations Ain’t Easy!

As Joseph and I are wrapping up this marriage, we’re in negotiations for another one. Yes, we’ve decided to marry again. However, after thirty years, the conversations around our next marriage are different. Actually, every marriage negotiation conversation […]

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And Ending…and a Beginning

As Joseph and I are planning the end of our marriage, we’ve gotten far enough in our re-negotiating phase to decide to go another five years. We still have plenty to discuss and stuff to work out, but […]

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My Marriage is Ending

Recently I was talking to a twenty-something, newly-engaged woman who loves the idea of The Five-Year Marriage®. “It keeps things fresh,” she affirmed. And she was correct. A Five-Year Marriage® does keep things fresh…and that’s the good part. […]