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What Exactly Is Marriage? "Marriage is when you get to keep your girl and don't have to give her back to her parents" -Eric, six years old "When somebody's been dating for a while, the boy might propose to the girl. He says to her, 'I'll take you for a whole life, or at least until we have kids and get…

CHURCH HUMOR Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didn't have to hear about all the men she could have married, and she didn't have to hear about the way his mother cooked. ***** An elderly woman died last month. Having never married, she requested no male pallbearers. In her handwritten instructions…

THE IDEAL WIFE Always beautiful and cheerful. Could have married movie stars but wanted only you. Beauty that won’t run in a rainstorm. Never sick. Just allergic to jewelry and fur coats. Insists that moving furniture by herself is good for her figure. Expert in cooking, cleaning the house, fixing the…

Why you should remain a virgin until you are married Teens having sex. It's in the movies, on TV, and splattered on the pages of magazines. It seems that having sex makes many teens feel that they are mature, popular, normal, or loved. Teens often mistake sex for love - and fondling for affection. But…

Getting into fights A young couple drove several miles down a country road, not saying a word. An earlier discussion had led to an argument, and neither wanted to concede their position. As they passed a barnyard of mules and pigs, the husband sarcastically asked, "Are they relatives of yours?" "Yes,"…

Charley and Martha Harris had been together for 65 years. They and fell in love at the age of 12 and were married at the age of 19. The couple blossomed over the year and their commitment to each other and their family never wavered. As they aged their health declined from different issues and finally…

When the pandemic began, many experts predicted it would have a negative impact on relationships and lead to more break ups and divorces. Susan Albers, a psychologist with the Cleveland Clinic said the actual results have been more mixed. Albers said for couples experiencing a lot of tension before the…

A Taiwanese man who happened to get one of the first PlayStation 5 consoles was forced to sell the device when his wife learned he had lied to her, saying the device was an air purifier. The buyer, Jim Wu talked about his experience on social media. Wu said he arranged to meet the seller in purchase…

One of the keys to a marriage’s survival is effective communication skills. Communication is not completed until the recipient receives the message intended by the sender. A woman in India has filed for divorce from her husband because his communication is being received differently than he intends.…

An unnamed man in England was ready to propose to his girlfriend. He lit hundreds of tea-light candles in his apartment, poured two glasses of wine, then went to fetch his girlfriend so he could wow her with a proposal. When the couple returned to the apartment, they found it engulfed in flames. The…

On leap day 2020, twenty-nine couples tied the knot at two twenty-nine p.m. in Hell, Michigan, a small town 20 miles outside Ann Arbor. The Rev. Yvonne Williams officiated the mass ceremony. The ceremony was short and sweet, less than 10 minutes, and was held outside the town’s chapel. Couples had to…

OK, until way after death do us part. When Le Van’s wife died 16 years ago, the Vietnamese man said the thought of bidding an eternal farewell to his wife was so objectionable that he slept on her grave. In stages, he kept getting closer and closer to her. First digging a tunnel to get next to her coffin,…

When asked about the secret of his 75-year long marriage to Arlene Dean, Loyal Dean said. “I feel that we each understand what each one of us desires and what we need,” –Jim L. Wilson https://www.wilx.com/content/news/Local-couple-celebrates-75-years-of-marriage--513011491.html Romans 15:7 (CSB) “Therefore…

We have all heard the saying, “If momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.” Well new research reported in the New York Times indicates what makes momma happy. The paper reported that their research shows “the happiest of all wives in America are religious conservatives, followed by their religious progressive…

A study published in the journal PLOS One reports that married people have better physical health at older ages than unmarried people. One of the biggest differences is married people tend to walk fasten ad have a stronger grip. The researchers studied English adults over age 50, and a group of American…

When a Michigan couple learned that they broke the law when they married two years earlier, they asked a judge to void the first marriage and then marry them again. Philip Timmer and Trish Stewart were both divorced with children from previous marriage when they met in 2010. They married in 2016, but…

Sharyn Rubin and Eric Schlesinger first meet in a dorm building elevator on move-in day at Temple University in 1972. A few days later, Rubin recognized Schlesinger at a mixer and formally introduced herself to him. Her opening line was “Hi, Mr. Elevator Man.” That meeting turned into a marriage that…

Police in Miami Beach, Florida say a man they identified as Kenneth came into the station to ask for their help with his proposal. The department agreed and they arranged for the couple to be pulled over as they drove down a city street. When the officer pulled the couple over, he asked them to get out…

Ten years after they met in the canned vegetable aisle at the supermarket, Larry Spiering and Becky Smith got married next to shelves of canned carrots and peas. Smith said she worked at the Community Supermarket when Spiering walked up to her and gave her a piece of paper with his name and phone number…

As he prepared to graduate with an aviation degree, Gavin Becker decided to use his piloting skills to propose to his girlfriend. He used a snow blower to carve a giant message in the snow on a frozen lake. He wrote the words “Marry Me” surrounded by an oversized heart and offered to take his longtime…

One of the five myths of marriage discussed in a Washington Post article on marriage is that marital affairs are the main cause of divorce. As bad as an affair is for a marriage, destroying the foundation of trust, the affair is typically a result rather than the cause of a disintegrating marriage. “In…

When we take marriage vows we intend for them to be forever. Sometimes they don’t last quite that long. For one couple in Tennessee it didn’t even last overnight. Kate Prichard and James Burton ended up drinking a little too much after their nuptials and at the motel got into a fierce argument. Kate…

At 40, Laura Mesi finally got married, but she did not marry another person—she married herself. Commenting on the ceremony, Mary Louise Kelly of NPR’s Morning Edition said: “Now this ceremony held no legal weight. On the other hand, no one to bicker with over who has to write the thank-you notes.” —Jim…

A German man was heartbroken when he lost his wedding ring while gardening. When he told his wife about the loss, she assured him that the ring would eventually reappear. The couple had just celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary, and continued to hope they would find the symbol of their enduring…