One fact that holds true about the troubles most marriages face — whether it’s a couple deciding to file for divorce or to enter counseling for their issues — is that finances are a big deal. The struggle that money can cause is often named as the number one reason…
Unfortunately, when couples decide to file for divorce, in-laws are often a factor. As the old adage states, “When you get married, you’re marrying families.” But a study reported last year put some actual numbers to this. Oddly enough, if a husband reports being close to his in-laws he’s 20…
In a recent article for Huffington Post, contributor Aunt Becky for CafeMom’s The Stir detailed the eight signs that it may be time to take a break from your relationship. Most of the signs that Becky shared are usually indicative of problems in a marriage and can be factors in…
Every time someone comes to our site looking for help on how to file for divorce, the story is usually the same. When they got married, they had no idea the marriage would end in divorce. So many relationships start out new and exciting but when the honeymoon is over,…
While there is no clear recipe for how to have a long lasting marriage, we do know quite a bit more than we used to by analyzing data among those who’ve taken the plunge and managed to avoid filing divorce papers. Particularly successful are those marriages found in the northern…
New research shows that couples who drink heavily and couples who don’t drink at all share the same rate when it comes to deciding whether to file for divorce, according to UPI. It’s only when one spouse drinks heavily and the other does not that the marriage success rate falls.…
When you make the decision to file for divorce (or your spouse files on you), the emotions involved can be overwhelming. Unfortunately, it’s often during these times that you learn the most valuable lessons about marriage that would have come in handy if you would have been aware of them…
When you are first getting married, you’ll hear a lot of advice on what you should and shouldn’t do in order to have a “good” marriage. One of the nuggets that a lot of old-timers state — at least my parents did — is that you should combine finances as…
A new post making the rounds online from Psychology Today has stirred up quite a controversy. In “Three Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Marry For Love,” author Susan Pease Gadoua, L.C.S.W. and author of the books Contemplating Divorce and Stronger Day By Day, deconstructs the idea that “love is all we…
It’s been a tumultuous month for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) following a botched rollout that has included disastrously low enrollment estimates, a poorly “working” website, and health insurance policy cancellations that forced President Obama to issue an apology to the estimated millions of Americans losing their coverages as a…