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It was nearly twenty-one years ago that we made those promises before God, the pastor, and the whole company there gathered. The words were “to love, honor, and cherish … in sickness and health … for richer, for poorer, and in all life’s realities … until death parts us.” These words have been the anchor [...]

We are not left entirely to speculation about the mental, moral, intellectual man of the future. Our psychological knowledge of individuals living today permits a concrete evaluation of the actual or “innate” capacities of man. We are already in a position to answer the question of whether man is basically selfish and ruthless, regardless of [...]

The fact that jealousy is very closely related to the popular conception of the role of sex indicates that the whole subject needs clarification. The meaning and implication given to fidelity and possession often disturbs the human fellowship of husband and wife and brings to a head the personal problems threatening understanding and harmony. Not [...]

In 1980 in Tel Aviv, I had a fight with a South African friend. “You’ll marry someone with an accent,” she cursed. The next year, a palm reader in New Delhi predicted, “You’ll marry someone from a different part of the world.”
Small wonder that when I finally met a man with all the wonderful qualities [...]

Asking someone to be a best man at a wedding is not an easy thing to do, especially because we are men. Men as a whole like to avoid such things, and often wait until the last minute to ask. This is where the happy bride-to-be steps in, and through constant reminders, the difficult question [...]

So you’ve been asked to stand up with the groom at a wedding. The Best Man is actually a misnomer, because you have to play second fiddle to the groom all day, but we really know that the title is true in its definition, the best. The first thing going through your mind is “arrrgh.” [...]

Once sex is “purified” and no longer constitutes an intrusion in the human and social relationship between men and women, the eternal question will be answered whether man is capable of monogamy, whether the nature of human beings permits or demands such a pattern. We must face the fact that although the Christian religion and [...]

Aggressions and quarrels are, in some degree, present in almost all marriages. They have many causes, but are most likely to arise out of a symmetrical struggle. Since they are particularly apt to occur when a couple is working to form a quid pro quo, as described in subsequent chapters, a brief word on “battles” [...]

How we choose a mate is a decisive test of our concept of love and marriage. At the moment of choosing, we put into operation all that we have thought, expected, and feared. The choice of a wrong partner can be regarded as the first step toward marital discord, or as the last step in [...]

Clear communication does not always resolves marital problems. The spouses may clearly agree that they disagree and are at an impasse. Even so, this recognition is preferable to spilling energy, fathering pain, and spreading gloom by obfuscation, incomplete transactions, hurtful “humor,” and all the other destructive devices we have been attempting to analyze.
Here are some [...]