June 2009
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WatchThe Web Site Story: A Broadway Social Networking Musical!
via our friends at College Humor.
Oh, how relationships have changed.
Enjoy!
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Is our view of marriage the problem? →
via Washingtontimes.com: From reality show stars like Jon and Kate Gosselin to politicians to the folks next door - what we thought were the most solid of marriages are falling apart. Many of us are now feeling a bit sick to our stomachs at revelations of infidelity - and are beginning to wonder whether there is any real hope left for this sacrament called marriage. America’s children and...
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6 Sex Mistakes Women Make and Why
#1. Not Initiating Sex
It’s 2009 and still, many of us worry about ladylike behavior. We don’t want to appear pushy or come on too strong for fear of being labeled aggressive. According to Les Parrot, professor of psychology at Seattle Pacific University and author of a new book called Crazy Good Sex, failing to initiate sex is one of the biggest mistakes women make. “Most guys feel like they...
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Is internet use dividing couples? →
via: IrishTimes.com: According to new statistics published today. Accord, the Catholic marriage care service, said that problems around internet usage and the amount of time that people stay online is causing difficulties in relationships. During 2009, marital difficulties related to internet usage grew substantially, according to the service. Other common problems cited by clients include...
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study: Damage from parental split 'can last into... →
Children whose parents separate are twice as likely to under-achieve at school, suffer mental health problems and struggle to form lasting relationships, according to research commissioned by Ed Balls. Effects of family breakdown can be ‘enduring’ and persist well into adulthood, the study for the Schools Secretary concluded. It also reported that one in six children growing up in...
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72% of women considered leaving their husband?! →
via CNN.com: A new Woman’s Day and AOL Living poll found that a shocking 72 percent of women surveyed have considered leaving their husbands at some point. But despite the occasional rocky patch, 71 percent expected to be with their husbands for the rest of their lives. So how do you make it to the finish line with your relationship intact? Each decade will have its own drama, be it...
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WatchJon & Kate plus 8 Drama
related: Should parents stay together for the sake of the kids?
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What can Jon & Kate plus 8 learn from first lady... →
Statement from first lady Jenny Sanford: I personally believe that the greatest legacy I will leave behind in this world is not the job I held on Wall Street, or the campaigns I managed for Mark, or the work I have done as First Lady or even the philanthropic activities in which I have been routinely engaged. Instead, the greatest legacy I will leave in this world is the character of the children...
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The Power of Fatherhood: Modeling →
via Steven Stosny: The primary way that children learn how men should behave in relationships is by watching you. Even if you do not live with their mother, your children are keenly aware of the way you interact with her. Most divorce and domestic violence happens to men and women who grew up without a father modeling compassionate relationship behavior. Here are 10 tips to help you model the way...
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WatchSmart Marriages Conference Twub
What is a Twub?
Twubs are Twitter groups built around content aggregated from #hashtags.
Twubs, or hashtag hubs, gives users the power to contribute their own photos, videos, and tweets, and get a more comprehensive view of the stream of activity.
Why wait till you get to Orlando to interact with others join the Smart Marriages twub now. (link)
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Lessons in love – from Dad →
via Micah Toub: I’m coming around to thinking my father isn’t a complete failure in relationships. This isn’t an easy idea to embrace given his two divorces and series of between-marriage girlfriends that didn’t work out (including that one who busted into our house during my summer vacation and scattered his torn-up love letters on the carpet). But now that I’m...
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Airing the Dirty Laundry Online - Relationship... →
via Time Magazine: For those who want to connect or reconnect with others, social-networking sites are a huge, glorious honeypot. But for those who are disconnecting, they can make things quite sticky. And as the age of online-social-network users creeps up, it overlaps more with the age of divorce-lawyer users, resulting in the kind of semipublic laundry-airing that can turn aggrieved spouses...
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Epidemic of family breakdown no longer a private... →
Senior judge, Mr. Justice Coleridge, a Family Division judge, said the consequences of break-ups for society are now so great, this can no longer be treated as a private matter. Action is needed, he said, to achieve a “fundamental change” in individual attitudes and behaviour to re-establish marriage as the “gold standard” for relationships. No one political party on its own could resolve the...
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Scarce men are likelier to scram.
When young men...
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Nesties - Who are they and why does it matter? →
NEW YORK The Knot Inc. has identified a demographic subset of women who are going through a series of intense, mega-life-changes in a compressed period of time. The digital media company, best known for its core wedding-centric site TheKnot.com, recently conducted a study in conjunction with global research firm OTX. The result was the classification of this marketing-friendly group dubbed...
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Private choices, public costs: How failing... →
A new report released by The Institute of Marriage and Family Canada includes international comparisons between Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Great Britain about the public costs of family breakdown. The research is absolutely clear. There is a strong link between married parents and stability for children. Children fare best on many indicators – financially, educationally,...
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What are the top marriage traps to avoid? →
Three marital experts give the top five right and top five wrong reasons to get married. Wrong Reason Number One: Sexual attraction may not last forever. Too many people confuse sexual attraction with love and that can lead to a short-lived marriage, explains Michele Weiner Davis, a US therapist and author of The Sex-Starved Marriage and The Sex-Starved Wife. ”The novelty of being with...
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study: How well did you sleep last night? →
Marriage may improve your sleep, and better sleep may improve your marriage, two new studies suggest. Women who are married or who have stable partners appear to sleep better than women who have never married or lost a partner, according to research from an eight-year study presented at the Associated Professional Sleep Societies annual meeting. They also found that marital happiness lowers the...
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WatchWhat is the economical impact of divorce in California?
Dennis Stoica, President of the California Healthy Marriage Coalition, notes that the costs of broken marriages and fragmented families to California is $12 billion per year.
Not in California? Find classes in your state HERE
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Reasons to Attend the 2009 Smart Marriages... →
Reason #30: 160+ breakouts on topics like money, sex, infidelity, singles, porn addiction, etc.
Reason #29: don’t just read about it – experience it LIVE! Reason #28: 100+ marriage education exhibits Reason #27: access to Marriage Film Festival – conference badge gets you in! Reason #26: Rack up CEUs! Up to 64 credits available for conference AND institutes Reason #25: what’s TOOB? or FOOB?...
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Barack Obama, Stop Ruining My Marriage →
On Sunday, the New York Times did just that, with a story headlined “If They Can Find Time for a Date Night …” The gist: If the Obamas — with Mom committed to her various causes and Dad trying to save the free world — can still find time for each other, hey, lame husband sitting on the couch watching sports, time to step it up. The writer suggests that the President has placed an...
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The Marriage of Psychology and Economics →
In the city of Greensboro, N.C., there’s a program designed for teenage mothers. To prevent these teens from having another child, the city offers each of them $1 a day for every day they are not pregnant. It turns out that the psychological power of that small daily payment is huge. A single dollar a day is enough to push the rate of teen pregnancy down, saving all the incredible costs —...
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Are Americans are more obsessed with themselves... →
When John Edwards invoked “the narcissism defense” in his explanation last August for why he cheated on his wife, the moment felt a bit anticlimactic—male politicians have long reinforced their stereotype as egomaniacs who think they’re God’s gift to women. But a new book asserts that more and more Americans are developing congressman-like levels of narcissism, which begs the question: Are our...
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study: The One Hundred Billion Dollar Man →
The federal government spends $99.8 billion dollars every year on programs - such as child support enforcement and anti-poverty efforts - that support father-absent homes. Download Full Study PDF (1.7 M)
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Canada: Family breakdown costs taxpayers nearly... →
OTTAWA — Family breakdown costs Canadian taxpayers nearly $7 billion a year, says a conservative social think tank. It is “one pathway to poverty,” said Andrea Mrozek, the manager of research at the Institute for Marriage and Family Canada. The institute released a report Wednesday outlining the financial burden single-parent families place on provincial welfare programs. Across Canada,...
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When Sex Leaves the Marriage →
Why do some couples sizzle while others fizzle? Social scientists are studying no-sex marriages for clues about what can go wrong in relationships. Married men and women, on average, have sex with their spouse 58 times a year, a little more than once a week, according to data collected from the General Social Survey, which has tracked the social behaviors of Americans since 1972. But there are...
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Marriage is cool! (research nerds inquire within) →
It looks like the people over at CAmarriage.com have been hard at work compiling research studies which link health, marital outcomes, marriage education and key social concerns and turning them into people-friendly booklets and handouts. PDF Links: Healthy Marriages, Healthy Lives is 16-page booklet filled with summarized excerpts and citations from the vast research on the alignment of Health,...