Join the Relationship Revolution! In the Afterword of their book Making Marriage Simple 10 Relationship Saving Truths, Harville and Helen throw in 5 more ‘truths’ as a bonus. Last week I looked at the first of these ‘truths’, Healthy Marriages are the Ultimate Upstream Prevention, an idea I have espoused for years. Today I want […]
Your Marriage is the Best Life Insurance Plan
Harville begins this chapter on healthy marriage with: “From the start, Helen and I believed that a healthy marriage has far-ranging benefits, not just for individuals, but for society. But we didn’t have the facts to prove it. So we began collecting statistics. And we’re constantly finding new studies that confirm what we’ve intuited for […]
Incompatibility is Grounds for Marriage
In our culture, generally, that statement reads “Incompatibility is grounds for divorce”. Harville, who is writing this chapter, flips it upside down. Yes, in the romantic love phase of a relationship, it tends to be the things two people have in common that attracts them together and that makes for a strong bond. He goes […]
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