Articles About Love and Marriage

by Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz

Oh, the times, they are a-changing!  This refrain is from a very famous Peter, Paul, and Mary song.  And the truth is, people are finding love in different ways than they did is year’s past.  Online dating is a reality today.

According to recent estimates – and we think they are pretty credible – one in eight couples who got married last year met online.   Some think the number is closer to one in four.  However, we see no evidence that this is the case.  One in eight is much more likely to be true.
Does Online Dating Lead to Marriage?

The Cinderella Story is a wonderful story.  It does, indeed, warm the heart.  It certainly inspires.  Love is always inspiring!  But the truth is, it is an idealized version of falling in love that rarely ever approximates the reality or the truth of what love really means – of what love might mean for a lifetime.

To find out why your emotions should not dictate your immediate actions read the article Love and Marriage Cinderella Style

As we prepared for the work of the day this morning it dawned on us while watching a television show – there is a lot of bad advice about marriage and relationships in the popular media today.  We watched these so-called “experts” wax on about what they believed to be “truisms” about love and marriage and the more we listened the more appalled we became about what we were hearing.

Find out the questions you should ask before believing advice on the Internet or on television by reading Is Advice About Love and Marriage Fact or Fiction?

The simple truth is, some marriages and relationships should not and cannot be saved.  As harsh and evident as this truth is, it cannot be avoided in the case of some marriages and relationships.  And in the end, when you have exhausted the solutions available to you, you simply must cut the tithes that bind.

Read the rest of the article: Is My Mariage Worth Saving?

Let’s face it, a lot of couples contemplating marriage get discouraged by the oft-quoted statistic that 50% of marriages in America end in divorce.  Who could blame them?  Who wants to get into relationships where there is the expectation of failure half the time!  But the truth is, the suggestion that there is a 50% divorce rate in American is simply wrong, wrong, wrong!  We would like to de-bunk that myth, that fiction, that urban legend!

Find out the real truth about the Divorce Rate Myth

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