Author: Rosie Einhorn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781614650881
Category : Dating (Social customs)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Rob Pascale
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442256982
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Staying happily married has become a difficult proposition in recent times. Although the institution is still firmly embedded in our culture, divorce rates have steadily climbed since the 1960s. While some marriages are truly divorce-worthy, many other broken marriages can be saved. Recent emphasis on personal needs and greater social acceptance of divorce and alternative lifestyles may have weakened the resolve of partners to work through their problems. Furthermore, many couples may not realize that problems in their current marriages are likely to surface in other relationships. Consequently, while they may consider divorce a solution, it may in fact only be a stepping stone to the next relationship where patterns may repeat. Solving marital differences can be difficult. They tend to be linked to or caused by other problems, and that can make it hard to identify the real reasons for conflicts. Without knowing the true nature of their problems, couples cannot arrive at solutions that actually work. To understand the underlying issues that plague many marriages, the authors look to the research conducted on the subject over the past fifty years and to real life stories of success and failure to outline the major issues that detract from marital stability. Drawing on Louis Primavera’s twenty-five years in private practice as a marriage counselor, each chapter is peppered with anecdotes that every married person can relate to, and that help bring issues to life. The authors also propose frank and honest solutions that can help couples have more satisfying relationships. Anyone looking to improve their marriage will find suggestions for sussing out the underlying problems they may be experiencing and guidance for addressing those problems.

Author: Laura L. Paterson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000960595
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 171

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How do people talk about marriage? Who gets to do the talking? When, why, where and how do these things change? From the experiences of women forced to marry as children to those of older women who never married, from investigations of cross-border marriage applications to Christian pastors’ sermons on divorce, from oppositional media discussions of same-sex marriage to pro-marriage equality protest signs: this collection presents research from across the globe addressing the often shifting, context-specific ways that we talk about marriage. Developed from the work of the UK-based Discourses of Marriage Research Group and a two-day conference drawing together scholars interested in talk of marriage and related topics, this interdisciplinary volume brings together linguists, psychologists, and film makers and draws on data from the UK, Germany, Taiwan, the US, Belgium, and Turkey. It is intended both as a survey of some contemporary trends in research on marriage and as a foundation for further research. The chapters in this book, except for chapters 1 and 7, were originally published as a special issue of the journal Critical Discourse Studies. This volume comes with a new introduction.

Author: Ruth Ann Nordin
Publisher: Ruth Ann Nordin
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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On her wedding day, Patricia Cotter, the widowed Lady of Pruett, signed a contract agreeing to the following: 1. She would never look at her husband’s face. 2. She would never remove the sheets covering the mirrors. 3. She would never ask her husband about his past. In return for doing these things, she will have a secure place for her unborn child and her worries will be over. She has nothing to lose by agreeing to her husband’s terms. Yes, she’s heard the rumors about Mr. Stephen Bachman. He was said to have killed his first wife, though there is no proof condemning him of the crime. He is aloof and never leaves his manor. He is practically a prisoner in his own home. But as she gets to know him, she begins to believe her husband isn’t the beast everyone’s made him out to be. There just might be a gentleman worth loving beneath his hard exterior. The questions is, can she get him to let go of the past so he can open himself up to the possibility of a fairytale romance?

Author: Krista Noorman
Publisher: Krista Noorman
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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A marriage pact, a secret office romance, and a dating jinx. What could go wrong? When Penelope Warner and her best friends made a pact after college to wait until they turn thirty to get married, she never thought they’d jinx themselves. But ever since they signed their names on the dotted line, their dating lives have been one catastrophe after another. If that wasn't bad enough, her new boss is Lucas Abbott—her high school crush and the town’s most eligible bachelor—and the attraction she feels is definitely not one-sided this time. But he's not supposed to date employees due to a past family scandal, so what are they to do but keep things on the down low? Now that the guy might finally be in Penelope's life, she's worried it will end in another dating disaster. But is the jinx their biggest obstacle or are deeper issues standing in their way? The Marriage Jinx is a heartwarming romantic comedy with plenty of small-town charm, cute flirting, a little fake dating, swoon-worthy kisses, a secret office romance, a fun cast of characters … and a town turkey.

Author: Mike Miley
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 149682542X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Although nearly every other television form or genre has undergone a massive critical and popular reassessment or resurgence in the past twenty years, the game show’s reputation has remained both remarkably stagnant and remarkably low. Scholarship on game shows concerns itself primarily with the history and aesthetics of the form, and few works assess the influence the format has had on American society or how the aesthetics and rhythms of contemporary life model themselves on the aesthetics and rhythms of game shows. In Truth and Consequences: Game Shows in Fiction and Film, author Mike Miley seeks to broaden the conversation about game shows by studying how they are represented in fiction and film. Writers and filmmakers find the game show to be the ideal metaphor for life in a media-saturated era, from selfhood to love to family to state power. The book is divided into “rounds,” each chapter looking at different themes that books and movies explore via the game show. By studying over two dozen works of fiction and film—bestsellers, blockbusters, disasters, modern legends, forgotten gems, award winners, self-published curios, and everything in between—Truth and Consequences argues that game shows offer a deeper understanding of modern-day America, a land of high-stakes spectacle where a game-show host can become president of the United States.

Author: Nicey Priestley
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 035921858X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Take your marriage to Paradise and experience the joy of a marriage renewed. Whether your marriage is on the brink or coasting along well, this book will give you timeless principals that will transform your union. Based in scripture, you will uncover God's plan for marriage and how to survive the demonic plot against it; all while discovering God's enduring love for his Church, the TRUE forever marriage.

Author: Terry D. Hargrave
Publisher: Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers
ISBN: 9781891944369
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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The author offers a fresh new perspective an what makes marriages work that will jumpstart the efforts of every couples therapist. At its care is his suggestion that what is needed is some new math: where once we believed that two became one, and then, more recently, that two remained two, Hargrave, proposes that in strong marriages, two become three: you, me and we.

Author: Rebecca Tillett
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816513384
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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"This book is a collection of essays by international scholars celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Silko's novel, Almanac of the Dead, and addressing those ongoing demands for justice. It offers new responses to Almanac's sociocultural, historical, and political contexts, and includes a new interview with Silko in which she reflects on the twenty years since the novel's publication"--

Author: Derek McCormack
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1554903394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85

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The Show That Smells is the most SHOCKING story ever shown on the silver screen Its also the tale of Jimmie, a country music singer dying of tuberculosis, and Carrie, his wife, who tries to save him by selling her soul to a devil who designs haute couture clothing Elsa is a powerful Parisian dress designer, and a vampire. She wants to make Carrie look beautiful, smell beautifuland then she wants to eat her Will Carrie survive as her slave? Will Jimmie be cured? Starring a host of Hollywoods brightest stars, including Coco Chanel, Lon Chaney and the Carter Family, The Show That Smells is a thrilling tale of hillbillies, high fashion, and horror