Wedding Advice Blog For Brides

Seventeen years ago, also on the eve of the New Year, I wrote to you, during our separation, asking you to recommit yourself to me, as I wanted to recommit myself to you. And you did, and I did, and we recommitted ourselves to each other.
Now we face the dawn of our twenty-sixth year together. [...]

It would be unjust to label these changes as “growing immorality.” It is true that war has always brought in its wake a loosening of morals. That was true after the last war, and one might consider present conditions a repetition of a temporary immorality. But this time it is more than that. There is [...]

When I think of marriage, I think of planning and preparing Christmas dinner only to learn on Christmas Eve that the boys were all going to their mother’s. I guess someone forgot to tell me. My husband, an avid racquetball player, was also occupied on Christmas. I remember sitting alone on the couch, wondering where [...]

I have come to understand that a good marriage compels compromises that are not considered in more problematic marriages. When responsibility to the partnership equals in importance responsibility to oneself, there is pressure-a constant juggling of priorities and time.
When I married for the second time, I was forty. I knew I was marrying the only [...]

To the psychologist all marital problems present themselves in two aspects. The first is concerned with the individuals involved and their personalities, the second with the technique and methods they use in dealing with each other. It is possible to recognize the reasons for a person’s actions and the nature of his difficulties by understanding [...]

Few realize how their efforts to solve their personal problems of today stimulate an evolution which may eventually offer an adequate answer to many distressing puzzles of sexual and marital living. While we are fulfilling our daily tasks, trying to support ourselves, seeking love and getting married, enjoying friendships and participating in various activities, we [...]

A clinical psychologist has completed four years of college and obtained a Ph.D. degree, which usually requires at least an additional four years of study and training. In most states, in order to qualify as a clinical psychologist (that is, someone who may treat patients), he must have had the majority of his training in [...]

Whoever desires the participation, initially rejected by the partner, must first win him over. Demands create opposition, mutual resentment and disappointment. One woman complained that her husband was interested only in reading the papers and showed no appreciation of good books. The other day, she reported, she read to him an introduction to philosophy, a [...]

The Bachelor Party can be a very difficult thing to undertake. In many relationships today, the get-drunk, party-all-night-long in the company of naked professionals is frowned upon. Then there is the overwhelming sense of tradition that draws us towards overlooking this disapproval, often jeopardizing the very reason we are celebrating. It really depends on how [...]