Why You Should Stay In A Bad Marriage
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Marriage on Tuesday, June 07, 2011
“Given a choice between you in the next room miserable every day for the rest of your life and you happy but only seeing her on weekends, your kid will take miserable in the next room every time.”
I’m paraphrasing, but that’s from a scene I’ve never forgotten from Nora Ephron’s Heartburn, a movie about her divorce.
It’s in fact the only thing at all I remember about the movie, and it came back to... READ MORE
Custody & Cancer
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Marriage on Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Have you heard about the ugly custody battle involving Alaina Giordano, mom of two and battling stage 4 breast cancer, who is currently fighting to regain custody of her daughters? The video below spells out a bit of the story, from Alaina’s perspective as told to Dr. Drew Pinsky. This video and story have me praying for the family involved, but also thinking about Catholic families I know who have... READ MORE
Divorced, Not Separated…From The Church
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Marriage on Thursday, April 14, 2011
I know I’ve posted on this before, but so many divorced Catholics think they’re unwelcome at Church, I like to remind people periodically that it’s not so!
Particularly as we get close to Holy Week and souls may be inspired to “come home for Easter,” I call your attention to two sites that may be helpful and informative.
Divorcedcatholic.org has an excellent set of FAQs about divorced persons, the... READ MORE
Facebook: A Marriage Killer?
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Marriage on Monday, February 28, 2011
It feels like I’ve been reading and hearing it everywhere lately: Facebook is bad for marriages.
The statistic I often see is that Facebook is cited as a cause of divorce in 20% of cases.*
I told this to my husband and he raised an eyebrow at me. “Like… how? Someone got addicted to Farmville and neglected their spouse?”
If only it were that simple! Facebook, as it presents chances to reconnect with... READ MORE
Should We Tax Divorce?
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Marriage on Monday, July 12, 2010
They finally got the murderous Al Capone on a charge of tax evasion.
Members of Parliament ended the British slave trade with an obscure shipping regulation.
In law and politics, sometimes you have to take the indirect route.
Therefore I’m intrigued by this genius idea.
Why not tax divorce?
It’s an idea that respects a basic economic principle: “what you subsidize you get more of; what you tax... READ MORE
Divorce Is Contagious
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Marriage on Thursday, July 08, 2010
If your close friends or immediate family members divorce, the likelihood that you will as well increases by as much as 75%.
That’s the conclusion of researchers from three universities.
The phenomenon is called “divorce clustering.”
The researchers ... found that every divorce sends ripples through friends, families and work colleagues.
One study does not a fact make, but this is certainly suggestive, isn’t it?
Why Marriages Fail
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Marriage on Thursday, May 27, 2010
The recent spate of celebrity infidelity cases leads Mark Stricherz to ask what causes marriages to fail.
He rejects most pop psychology explanations in favor of something much simpler.
Couples just don’t spend enough time together.
One family expert puts it this way.
spending time together was one of the strongest predictors of marital happiness. The reverse is also true – the happier that people... READ MORE
Pssst ... We Want to Hear From You
Posted by Danielle Bean in Marriage on Monday, December 07, 2009
Marriage Matters, a feature where we profile a couple who has gone to the brink of divorce and come back together, is an enduring feature in Faith & Family magazine.
These real-life stories serve as an important reminder of the challenges of marriage while emphasizing the fact that it is an indissoluble, lifelong commitment, for better or for worse.
We are in need of stories for future issues. Do you or someone you know have a marriage on the rocks and back to success story? Would you be willing to be interviewed for Faith & Family (you have the option of remaining anonymous)? If so, please .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Thank you!
Divorce: Now What?
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Marriage on Friday, December 04, 2009
If you’ve suffered a divorce or know someone who has, you might like to know about Divorced Catholic.
It includes FAQs relating to divorce, and Journey of Hope, an online program aimed at helping divorced Catholics with practical, spiritual, emotional and moral issues related to the experience of divorce, and more.
I’m so glad to see this because Church teaching with respect to divorce seems to be... READ MORE
Stumbling Onto The Truth
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Marriage on Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Signatures are being collected for a ballot initiative to ban divorce in California.
The move is entirely sarcastic, as the accompanying t-shirt indicates.
Behind it is a homosexual activist who wishes to showcase the hypocrisy of defenders of one man, one woman marriage. He is “retaliating,”
as he sees it, for Proposition 8.
It is sad to see how much this gentleman actually hates marriage as an institution (note the come on for the t-shirt at the link).
Yet, as we have discussed previously, he’s stumbled onto a truth, hasn’t he?
