marriage

As an account of a great number of love affairs and wedding customs, The Book of Songs reflects the social system on marriages of the time.

She was equally famous for her extraordinary beauty and her stormy personal life, including 8 marriages and a series of physical ailments.

You might run into one or two of those types that don't hold with mixed marriages, but I have to say again: we're the children of love.

Such experimentation will no doubt fuel the fears of those who worry that cyberdating is commoditising intimacy and undermining marriages.

Divorce: More than half of American marriages end up in divorce and with it comes strain on personal finances.

Right, and there it could face a lot of opposition. At least four of the justices are rumored to be in loveless marriages themselves.

The Billings were a modern-day, magnanimous sort of Brady Bunch -- each had two children from previous marriages.

The question of whether marriage commissioner's should perform all marriages, regardless of their personal beliefs is at question.

This brings us to the startling conclusion that out of every hundred marriages in this country, perhaps ninety are unsatisfactory.

In 30. 7 percent of all marriages with a wife working outside of the home, her income exceeds that of her husband.

Dual-career marriages seem to be the rule, not the exception, in the money driven 1990s.

Married, walked into marriages, seems to have access to the money of heaven principle.

But she says the concept of temporary marriages works well for her people.

Two out of every three black marriages fail, about twice the rate of white marriages.

Marriages might experience a bit of an intrusion at this time.

And you know that even in the best marriages and romantic relationships, we sometimes fail to tell the truth.

Our communication goal, therefore, should be "bridge" building, not "wall" making as it too often seems to be in many marriages.

The lawyer who brought the case said the offspring of such marriages should not be allowed to perform military service.

Monks, however, do not normally perform sacramental rituals for the laity, and would not normally officiate at baptisms and marriages.

The results of such marriages of stage and stardom have not always been ideal, as this past season alone can testify.

Celebrities whose marriages appear on the front page of a magazine are more than twice as likely to get divorced, according to a study.

"People waylay me in public events sometimes, " she said. "I may not even remember them, and they thank me for saving their marriages. "

Why don't these people get a life? You know, I've lived long enough to know that good marriages go through tough times.

Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret.

More recently, young people are more ready to get divorced when their marriages get rough.

According to Glass, affair partners are usually happy in their marriages and have no plans to leave their spouses.

In Morocco, it used to be the norm for marriages to be arranged by one's parents; however, this is no longer the case.

The number of marriages between cousins is dropping just as spectacularly as the birth rate, thereby blasting away a barrier.

Of course, I don't know everything about these marriages, but isn't the surface where things tend to look best anyway?

Both marriages failed, and she leaned on her parents and friends to help raise her two children.

Marital sensation and marital intention were the most significant factors of men's attitude toward their marriages.

My daughter recently said, 'You and Dad have one of the best marriages, because you really talk to and know each other.

Drink and womanising destroyed his two marriages and landed him in court for offensive behaviour.

At its height the bond between eastern Europe and America was based, like the best marriages, on a mixture of emotion and mutual support.

What Went Wrong: The fact that they each had already had at least two failed marriages didn't stop them from tying the knot in 1964.

By the age of six I had attended both of my parents' second marriages (my new step-parents were tying the knot for the second time, too).

If you do not happen to have colleagues or relatives with suitably dysfunctional marriages, you can always invent these people.

Yes, there are marriages that crumble due to boredom, just as there are business that lose their customers due to a lack of imagination.

Even men who are relatively happy in their marriages are more likely to leave if they are not employed, the research found.

As the case in many marriages these days, problems had arisen between lesley and Jeef, but they did not extend to Zac.

The style-matching approach proved to be a powerful bellwether of marriages as well.

Some of these scenarios are so familiar that family therapists have developed typologies of stable but destructive marriages.

Texas authority has found a document indicating marriages between one man and more than 20 wives who resided at a polygamist compound.

As the median age of marriages has risen, statistic say that divorce rates have leveled off.

In June, South Korean authorities broke up a gang that used foreign marriages to smuggle in an estimated 240 women over the past two years.

Divorce statistics and the stories of unhappy marriages seem to attest otherwise for a large group of people.

And many marriages have been saved by an open confrontation of deep and painful misunderstandings.

As marriages go, they are something of an odd couple.

Taylor, who was 79, came to be known for her glamour and love life (seven husbands, eight marriages).

About half the marriages in the United States today end in divorce, so plenty of kids and teens have to go through this.

It may be briefly summarized in the following outline: suffrage, the right to education, the right to work, marriages and birth rights.

Rich couples with troubled marriages and a London connection are watching with a mixture of glee and foreboding.

Men and women could learn a thing or two from each other about when to talk about problems in their marriages or romantic relationships.

The fourth part discusses how the Lou family established a strong local network through marriages.

It is at this level that most racial mixing and a few interracial marriages take place.

Second marriages, on average, are slightly more likely to break up than first marriages, but the difference is quite modest.

The first US federal court case to determine whether states are allowed to ban same-sex marriages has opened in San Francisco, California.

Unhappy marriages or relationships are the result of subjugating oneself to one's spouse or partner.

But parents Hepburn and Tracy must deal with the fact he is black at a time when interracial marriages were frowned on .

This study aims to explore the attitude and sense of satisfaction of the spouses of immigrant females toward their marriages.

For all those hours in church to matter, their marriages had to be "very happy" .

This is not a complete truism in a polygynous marriage, and is a criticism of monogamous marriages as well.

Human nature and the grass is always greener and there were a tendency, because aggravated sex marriages are based on the instability.

I admit that my relationship with them had been strained over the past few months but I never expected our marriages to end in this manner.

How can Neil and Stevie get out of their mistaken marriages and into each other's arms?

Also consider that 50% of marriages end in divorce and the figure goes up to 75% if both partners have come from divorced families.

For the past 10 days, the question of whether same-sex marriages will, at last, be legally recognised in New York has been hotly debated.

Many thought the pair had one of the strongest marriages in Hollywood, until Pitt met Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2005.

Yet Sarah - who had a child at 19 and has two marriages behind her - is confident that few women could put up with him.

Experts report that in the United States, the marriage failure rate increases with the number of tries: Half of first marriages fail.

Men with a double dose of the gene were twice as likely to have troubled marriages.

Still, the total number of marriages between blacks and whites remains smaller than those between whites and other racial and ethnic groups.

The analytical framework of this paper views the "commodified transnational marriages" as a by-product of capitalist development.

Marriages are performed at the Civil Registry Office that has jurisdiction over the residence of the registration of the party.

He said most states allow marriages for people who have undergone sex reassignment surgery.

Those of this archetypal nature may also create multiple marriages that are elaborate and expensive in a single life.

All this adds to the homosexuals' argument for recognition of their marriages.

But, of all the marriages in my life (friends, family, etc. ) only about 50% of them seem healthy on the surface.

Later the holiday changed into a holiday to honor the Roman goddess, Juno, whom the Romans believed ruled over marriages.

New measures will also be introduced to crack down on forced marriages.

Along with it conies the great soar in the number of foreign marriages of Korean-Chinese women.

"If tongqi marriages become a thing of the past, " she says, "then the last country in which that will happen will be China. "

the system as a whole , however , tended to break up marriages.

Most marriages seem to have little problem with their big moments.

After all, despite our obsession with communication and counselling, eight out of ten marriages still fail because couples 'grow apart'.

Bad marriages might have been making them sick.

Even so, some of these hastily arranged "earthquake marriages" have already fallen apart.

Great marriages seldom come naturally. They are virtually always the result of strong motivation, careful instruction, and endless practice.

Our relationship had begun to suffer theinanition of many marriages at seven years.

As a result of the effects of globalization, cross-racial and cross-cultural marriages have become common phenomena in Taiwan society.

As a result of the effects of globalization, cross-racial and cross-cultural marriages have become common phenomena in Taiwan society.

All the governors-general have been family men, and few have had broken marriages.

I honestly feel that this is a lame excuse for a reason against homosexual marriages.

The researchers said that more work is needed to see if those in long marriages are still blind to their partner's physical flaws.

Rich couples with troubled marriages and a London connection are watching with a mixture of glee[5] and foreboding.

Registration of births, marriages and deaths came into effect in Great Britain.

So work for your marriage, if you think it's worthwhile. And then also, at the same time, respect other people's marriages.

Happy marriages might just be those in which both partners uphold a very nice projection of each other, even when things aren't so great.

It was sanctioned as an official religion in 2003 by the Haitian government, allowing priests to legally perform baptisms and marriages.

His political marriages to foreigners inclined him toward their culture and religion and led to the neglect of the Israelite God.

Young people are rushing in and out of marriages; many marriages are short-lived.

Miao clans were prohibited marriage with generally different surname marriages, some of the same surnames in different cases can marry.

This consent form is to be produced to the Registrar of Marriages upon filing of Notice of Intended Marriage.

While in the post, he annuls Henry VIII's marriages to Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn and divorces him from Anne of Cleves.

In their quest to solidify control over the economy, China's leaders are likely to encourage many more such arranged marriages.

The couples in these marriages engage in various of activities together and display pleasure in being in one another's company.

She agrees that some brokered marriages work, but she says agencies sometimes create unrealistic expectations in men.

It has convicted people for the use of child soldiers, for "forced marriages" (as distinct from rape) and for sexual slavery.

It shows up in couples who choose to mend their marriages instead of filing for divorce.

One of the biggest social problems of our day is the break-up of families caused by the failure of marriages.

These steps once rang to the sound of lovers' footsteps, and beneath that broken dome marriages beyond count were sealed with a kiss.

"After all, " added Miss Ley, "nine marriages out of ten are more or less unsatisfactory " .

Since the early 1980s, China international mixed marriages rosters almost is prosperous year.

His efforts to secure good marriages for his brothers and marshals are dynastic politics that Bourbon kings would have grasped instantly.

She had highly publicized marriages to baseball great Joe DiMaggio and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller.

So countries with a high prevalence of child marriages also tend to have low literacy rates for young women.

Ziauddin Sardar, in a must-read article, wrote of the clergy's efforts to battle this epidemic by promoting meta, or temporary marriages.

Remarriages have been more likely than first marriages to fail for a number of reasons.

Among Neelchand Bhagsen's generation there was no question: They would all have their own marriages and lives.

We have so many women in unhappy, loveless marriages in China, " he said. " Inside this story, there are so many tears, so much pain.

"On the basis of these numbers, there is not a negative effect of cohabitation on marriages, plain and simple, " she says.

Marriages to a foreigner are more common in Scandinavia, the Netherlands and France, than they are in Italy, Spain and South East Europe.

People left, marriages disintegrated and feuds broke out in the community.

Well you know everybody does. That's why there are so many celebrity marriages.

Loveless marriages like Lester and Carolyn's exist because neither partner possesses the willingness to break the cycle.

Girls are forced into marriages, young women are kept out of school, and men have complete control over their families.

You can't help but look to the marriages you know.

In Jewish marriages there was always a middle man who arranged the marriage on behalf of both families.

People are always quoting the statistics on how few marriages survive the death of a child.

If you and I feel no one can do without, we can immediately register marriages.

In villages in the eastern Cape teenage girls continue to be forced into marriages with older men who treat them as virtual slaves.

Some economists doubt whether defining a market is useful at all when judging marriages between very specialist firms.

After two bad, loveless marriages perhaps you would devote yourself to the work you were meant to do.

Australia has introduced tough new laws that could see people who send young girls overseas for forced marriages jailed for up to 25 years.

East Asia also has a male-dominated system, but one that stresses the nuclear family more; nowadays it has abandoned arranged marriages.

Most buried resentments are the cause to failed marriages and broken relationships.

The couples were checked every two years and the model predicted which marriages failed with almost complete accuracy.

The notion that the best marriages are those that bring satisfaction to the individual may seem counterintuitive.

such marriages would go through difficulties out of personality and social conflicts.

Meanwhile, more marriages end in divorce in Okinawa than in any other part of Japan.

Families are going on vacations and outings together. Husbands and wives are making a concentrated effort to keep their marriages solid.

The survey suggests that the major problems affecting marriages are lack of communication, arguments and unsatisfactory sex.

As the result of reform and opening up, and farmers frenzied hunt for work in cities, massive urban-rural marriages appear.

One of the biggest online industries in India has been the business of arranging marriages.

Nineteen percent of marriages that occurred in 2008 were the second marriage for at least one spouse.

It is all very well for such things to occur in America that people may have several marriages, but it's not the case for Chinese.

Marriages are market-based transactions, swayed by supply (what is available) as much as demand (what the heart desires).

It affects our marriages and our relationships with our kids as well as the way we relate to friends, co-workers, and society in general.

All of those business owners worked their butts off, many of them risking their health, marriages, and sanity as well.

At other times arranged marriages were done simply to help strengthen a country, or family.

Her organization, Sisters Arab Forum, tries to intervene on behalf of child brides, to stop the marriages from taking place.

Women drawn to bond-owning men might reverse the country's sharp drop in marriages, which have fallen by a third since the 1972 peak.

The delay in marriages induced by the stipend subsidy arguably contributed to lower fertility rates and child mortality rates in Bangladesh.

Now do not fashionable parents arranged marriages, but fashionable parents Banhun Shi Bao.

The CDC data more closely points to what actually happened with marriages, Prof. Wilcox says.

The American said, Talking about love marriages. . . I'll tell you my story.

In her court papers, Cassim, who married under Shari'ah in 1995, lashed out at the un-recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa.

The novel described several broken marriages and explored the source of life through a perfect and romantic love story.

Some had, out of desperation, found work in the online sex industry; others had been forced into arranged marriages.

They were unnerved by how old they were, how boring things could be, how tired they were of their marriages.

His posting railed against the passing of legislation that legalized same-sex marriages in his state.

Many polygynous marriages have shown considerable variability in the amount of influence and control multiple wives could command.

Youth, career, dream, once because of a bad marriages and buried. For the guidance of the buddhist scriptures, and not let yourself lost.

Marriages are also increasing in other countries as recessions spread around the world.

Husbands are effusive, heartfelt, and articulate in their appreciation of both their partners and their marriages.

Although South African law recognizes traditional polygamous marriages, simultaneous weddings are rare.

That report is not true or false, right something wrong, suicide, can be forced marriages?

Although not all said they were happier in general, most claimed their marriages had improved since their children had left home.

Nowadays, another remarkable phenomenon in Chinese relationships has emerged, namely shan hun or "lightning marriages" .

He' s plain for the birds. He would either crack a blue joke mortal about other people's marriages.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Globalisation has made binational marriages, once exotic, much more common among high-earning, highly mobile families.

In a 2009 report in the journal Psychological Science, people bored in their marriages were more likely to choose the more separate circles.

For centuries, caste determined not only peoples' social status but their marriages and occupations as well.

Deflect the devil's darts by which he seeks to wear down and even destroy our marriages.

Looking around, there is a disturbing trend that plays itself out in most troubled marriages.

Hamas has banned women from smoking water pipes in cafes, saying it destroys marriages and sullies the image of the Palestinian people.

Proposition 8, a ballot-box initiative passed in November 2008, ended California's short stint as a state that allowed same-sex marriages.

The report concluded that cultural reasons are the main factors in delayed marriages and in the growth rate in divorce.

Love pleases more than marriages, for the reason that romances are more enjoyable than history.

They have become alarmed at the rapid decline in the number of marriages in recent years, blaming the trend on Western superficiality.

Arranged marriages with foreigners fell in Taiwan after the government cracked down on them, but they continue to rise elsewhere.

But marriages do dissolve, even among those determined never to let it happen.

Throughout history, marriages have been influenced by family relations and by economic needs.

And then we wonder why the rate of successful marriages is so low. . .

Their relationship continued through failed marriages on both sides and public uproar over the affair.

Keeping "All is well" on the tip of your tongue can disarm bullies, mend marriages, stop fist fights.

Today marriages have to be registered with the state.

Better-educated workers tend to have higher-paying jobs, which can provide less stress in marriages.

Spouses in happy, stable marriages made five positive remarks for every one negative remark when they were discussing conflict.

So whether you are married or not, remember, all marriages are fake -- just social conveniences.

I've seen young, rocky relationships develop into wonderful marriages, and fleeting inspirations ignite a lifetime of passion and happiness.

With half of all marriages doomed to fail, even the moderately hardheaded may be interested in ways of mitigating the danger.

The regulation classifies cohabiting and sabotaging others' marriages as violations of campus regulations.

A higher "coefficient of preservation" characterizes married women with children than childless marriages.

So short are some of these marriages. that it has become somewhat aphoristic that they don't last very long.

Marriages are built on a foundation of responsibility, dependability and predictability.

Meanwhile, Jackson has found himself popular for his short-lived marriages, the first to Elvis Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie.

This argument was peculiar since the law overturned the federal status quo, which was to recognize all legal marriages.

Roman Catholic Church has opposed cousin marriages for more than a millennium but gives dispensation to couples considered worthy.

All marriages are now unions of equals, he wrote, and there is no reason to restrict that equality to straight couples.

They revealed that their online habit contributed to disrupted marriages, childhood delinquency, crime and over-spending.

Use your Islamic princesses to lure enemy family members to your side, and arrange marriages to cement strong alliances.

For many women today, pregnancy is something we delay as we attempt to build our careers or solidify our marriages.

The couple became the public face of the debate in the state, the first to legalize same-sex marriages.

Issue: Whether forbidding interracial marriages is a violation of the equal protection clause.

half of the unhappy marriages are caused by the fact that the motivation of one to marry the other is pity.

Magazine covers, said a suicide actress to her boyfriend forced marriages.

Jason: OK. Alright. I'll take the chapels from Adam's Rib to Marriages Awry, and you take Naughty but Nice to Zing Zing Zing with my heart.

Marriages are arranged, if possible between first cousins but always within the same ethnic and social group.

US marriages last longer than unions where couples live together outside matrimony , the Centers for Disease Control reported on Tuesday.

Yes, a fulfilling sex life is an integral part of many happy marriages.

They also show that the number of marriages is at its lowest level since 1895.

Two unhappy marriages have left their mark on her.

But for others, the middle years may be times of disillusionment and regret about stalled careers and stale marriages.

In this paper, we present a parallel approach for searching all the stable marriages that has good average case performance.

Halloween was associated with divinatory rituals, omens that foretold marriages or deaths, and premonitory dreams.

Adultery, pornography, abuse and all types of sexual dysfunction plague Christian marriages and families.

Distances between the islands are not great and the sea is calm but people prefer to stick with their own kind and mixed marriages are rare.

Marriages fall apart or never happen at all, and children are raised with no fathers.

Likewise, friendships suffer, marriages fail, and families grow apart when individuals fail to listen with genuine concern.

The research, which analyzed U. S. Census data, examined new marriages between four major groups: blacks, whites, Hispanics and Asians.

The New York State assembly passed a same-sex marriage bill last night, bringing the state closer to legalizing such marriages.

"Smart Girls Marry Money" is a satirical self-help guide is written by two middle-aged professionals scarred by their first marriages.

Even today, many Indian marriages are orchestrated by parents who plan everything from finding the spouse to the wedding ceremony.

It is natural to feel an attraction toward someone of the opposite sex, even in happy marriages.

It is not known how many marriages turn out to be empty shell marriages, probably as many as happy ones.

But on many dimensions children whose parents enter into second marriages have better outcomes than do children whose parents cohabit.

But a new study suggests that doctor-doctor marriages may need more life-support than others.

People pay thousands for fake marriages, but I have friends who are citizens who would marry me for free.

Both men and women were pretty happy in their marriages, but on average, the women reported being slightly happier than the men.

In recent years there have been increasing number of mixed marriages.

The Times reported last week that French couples are avoiding traditional marriages and increasingly opting for civil unions.

Liz Taylor has survived several broken marriages , as well as periods of drug and alcohol addiction .

A higher 'co-efficient of preservation'characterises married women with children than childless marriages.

We spoke man to man about the state of our marriages.

"It's because divorce has such great economic consequences, and successive marriages have become so common, " said a family law lawyer.

Sometimes, even the best of marriages fail.

Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce and the rest of them are not a whole lot happier .

Don't give up. If you ask any married person, he or she will tell you that marriages wax and wane.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

It made females recognize their fate to contribute much to their marriages and families.

An arranged marriage through some kind of intermediary or the elders, that's the great majority of human marriages.

The failure of many marriages has its roots in the lack of sincere communication and mutual trust.

About this same time, French law required the clergy to register baptisms , deaths, and marriages.

"One could even consider certain marriages where there are unequal financial resources to not be overly dissimilar, " says Lichtenstein.

For many women, a man's inability to purchase an apartment is a relationship deal breaker, destroying potential marriages.

'We've lasted much longer than most marriages, so it's probably the fact we've not got done it that means we're still here now.

Putting tabloid hype about Charles and Diana aside, certainly everybody knows that most royal marriages have ended in divorce.

In both China and India, epilepsy is commonly viewed as a reason for prohibiting or annulling marriages.