I’m a Newlywed – again!
After months of discussions, negotiations, renegotiations, & agreements, Joseph & I ended Five-Year Marriage #7. Our plans to marry again didn’t go as expected.
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Marriages based on a written set of contractual agreements with a specific duration.
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year?
The Holidays Add Stress to Most Relationships Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s…It’s supposed to be the happiest, most wonderful time of the year. For some it is. Not everyone. For many, it’s a time filled with stress, and often […]
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Your Marriage in Covid-19
Yesterday morning, when Joseph and I tripped over each other at the sink after breakfast, he noticed how I tensed up. He laughed and said, “I bet you’ll be glad when I’m back to leaving the house at […]
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Does Your Relationship Need a Reset?
Is Covid-19 causing you and your sweetie to get on each other’s nerves? It’s not a surprise – we aren’t used to being in such close quarters all the time. Someone recently told me, “I just can’t look […]
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Contract Marriage Featured in Philadelphia Magazine!
This month’s Philadelphia Magazine’s (April 2021) features The Five-Year Marriage® – contract marriage. It’s one of 10 “different” marriage scenarios. I’m thrilled to be part of it. I tell the story about how and why The Five-Year Marriage […]
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The Washcloth and The Wall
Have you “hit the wall” in your marriage yet? It happens to just about every married couple at some point. Based on my conversations with women, I’d say it’s most common someplace between 8-15 years. For me it […]
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Did Bezos Need a Post-Nup?
Before the When Bezos and Tuttle married a year later, the couple wasn’t thinking about pre-nups. They were thinking about starting a family and making it big in business. In 1994, the newlyweds drove across the country to […]
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Can Marriage Be Flexible?
Peg, a fun-loving redhead and Dave, her strapping young sweetie, met at their center-city Philadelphia job where they were both social workers for the mentally challenged. They liked each other as co-workers, but it was clear that there […]
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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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