The secret to social media is still 99 percent common sense. Be honest. Be open. Be helpful. Provide useful information. Listen. Listen. Listen. Share. Give credit where credit is earned. Listen some more.
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If you’re certain you’re right, you’re probably wrong. Certainty is an emotional state, not an intellectual one. If you feel certain that you are right and your partner is wrong, you are most likely ignoring, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, or undermining his/her perspective.
Steven Stosny, Ph.D. [link: full post]
We [Americans] divorce, repartner, and remarry faster than people in any other country.
Andrew Cherlin, a Johns Hopkins sociologist and author of The Marriage-Go-Round. See full article…
When we disrupt the natural healing process by focus on damage, unfairness, moodiness, blame, or victim identity, painful memories often cause depression, obsessions, resentment, anger, addictions, abuse, or violence. That is why it is so crucial to identify with your deepest longing to heal, improve, and create value.
Steven Stosny, Ph.D., treats people for anger and relationship problems. Recent books: How to Improve your Marriage without Talking about It, and Love Without Hurt. See full article…
happy wife — happy life
husbands everywhere
Having a good marriage, good relationships with children and friends, makes all the difference. How you live is just as important as what you eat and how much you exercise.
Dr. Terry Grossman, Link: The secret to a really long life
Marriage actually works best as a formative institution, not an institution you enter once you think you’re fully formed. We learn marriage, just as we learn language, and to the teachable, some lessons just come easier earlier in life.
Mark Regnerus, The Washington Post
… much of the occurrence of single parenthood is not the result of divorce, but of a failure to enter into a committed marriage before having children
Jeff Snowden, OnlineAthens
It is critical to understand that the “private decision” to divorce has profound public consequences, especially when children are involved, and the state has a compelling interest in encouraging the stability of marriage and family as a primary means of social order.
John Stemberger, President of Florida Family Policy Council. (article link)
Most popular marriage advice, in the past and today, calls for “couples” to work on their marriages together. But if one considers the places in which this advice is dispensed—in women’s magazines, on daytime television, and in self-help books—it is clear that experts expected, and continue to expect, wives to be their audience and thus primarily responsible for making their marriages work.
Kristin Celello, author of Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce…
