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Walker Larson: What friendship teaches us about dating and marriage
2+ hour, 44+ min ago (201+ words) A true friendship between spouses is one of the deepest and most beautiful relationships in human life. We don't always speak of the relationship between married or dating individuals as a friendship, but it can be considered a type of…...
Kristin Landers: Real love is more than a romantic Valentine's dinner…
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (350+ words) I've failed you," my husband texted me a few weeks ago. Naturally, I wondered what that meant. Did it fall under the category of no big deal" or I'm contacting an attorney"? I've tried to get us a reservation at…...
Annie Holmquist: How to make the thrill of love return in marriage
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (411+ words) Social media causes a lot of problems. We all use it. Yet we all love to hate it. Now it's causing yet another unforeseen problem, The Wall Street Journal reports, namely in the realm of divorce. We've all seen a…...
Sean of the South: The marriage crisis
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (739+ words) Marriages are down 60 percent since the "70s. Divorce rates are soaring. And the New York Times reported that more 40-year-olds are choosing to live alone than ever before. Another recent survey of U.S. high-schoolers showed that the percentage of 12th graders who have…...
Annie Holmquist: Is there any such thing as a ‘good divorce’?
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (295+ words) If you ever want to get an interesting " sometimes shocking " glimpse of today's culture, try reading the advice columns that populate many of the nation's newspapers. A letter to Slate's "Dear Prudence" column caught my eye today. The letter writer…...
Jeff Minick: Is romance dead? Only if you make it so.
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (569+ words) In the hit song "Some Enchanted Evening" from the Rodgers and Hammerstein 1949 musical "South Pacific," which takes place during World War II, the French expatriate Emile sings of his love for Nellie, a young and na've Navy nurse. The song…...
Sarah Wilder: Polygamy is more anti-child degeneracy
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (406+ words) Rich Tidwell the so-called "pastor" of Ormond Church in Missouri, has'announced'he has taken a second wife, who will bear his eighth child.' "We're thrilled for what the Lord has done for our family," Tidwell wrote on Instagram, grinning alongside his…...
Sarah Wilder: Why you should invite children to your wedding
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (323+ words) My experience at first seems to be exactly why couples are increasingly prohibiting their guests from bringing children to their wedding. In an "adults only" setting, they believe they will be more able to pull off their perfect day. Yet…...
Sarah Wilder: It's time to cut husbands some slack
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (445+ words) Those who are unfortunate enough to spend a significant time on the app formerly known as Twitter have probably seen the recent discourse regarding women's bodies. It's a popular topic on the app right now, and every moderate to large…...
Parker Snider: We should mourn, not laugh, at broken marriages
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (657+ words) Hollywood has long been in the business of minimizing marriage. Every sitcom I've ever seen must, it seems, regularly joke about how marriage is a prison, a trap, a why-did-we-ever-get-married bad idea. At that, we're thrown back in time 10 years…...