Articles About Love and Marriage

There is something about the summer that encourages love.  Maybe it’s the bright summer sun.  It could be the warm summer breeze.  Maybe it’s the refreshing summer water!  Perhaps, it is the summer vacation.  And isn’t baseball played mostly in the summer?

Whatever the cause, it appears that most people fall in love during the summer and get married during the summer – more than in any other season of the year.   In fact, the research data we have collected over the years for our new book, Golden Anniversaries:  The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage, reveals that the months of June, July, August, and September are the most popular months to get married.  Needless to say, we have often wondered why.  Why all this Summer Love?

Recently, we came upon a statement by Simran Khurana that we just love.  It goes like this:  “Summer has always been considered to be the most romantic of the four seasons. The clear skies, the blazing sun, the gentle summer breeze, and the lazy afternoons flavor the season with passion and warm love.”

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Don’t you just hate bullies! They try to get what they want by bullying you, by intimidating you, and by making you feel inferior to them. If you are like us, this NEVER works! Yet, so many good folks succumb to the bully. And we wonder why?

So what is a bully? In the simplest terms, a bully is someone who can’t get what he/she wants through normal means. What they want is power. When you deny them that power they resort to forceful means to get what they want.

Here is now it works in love and marriage. One of the folks in the relationship wants something – be it a new car, a new apartment, a new dishwasher, or a new toy of some variety. The other person involved in the relationship does not. As you might guess, all heck breaks loose!

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Being IN love is easy. But why do so many people "IN love" not do the simple things required to help their relationship stand the test of time? Why do so many couples fail to make it long enough to celebrate Golden Anniversaries?

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