Articles tagged:marriage

Posted: Tue Feb 7 4:45 p.m. by Carly Parker AnnArbor.com Community Contributor
Valentine's Day is the perfect time to recommit to your marriage, create quality 'date night' with your spouse

Married for 27 years, Judy Maynard and her husband Mike know that marriage is not always chocolate and roses. Taking a page from experience, they're on a mission to use what they've learned to help others reconnect and strengthen their relationships — and sometimes that takes a good date night. ...

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Posted: Sat Jan 14 10:04 a.m. by Wayne Baker Community Contributor
Marriage: Are Americans putting off marriage - again?

Editor's note: This post is part of a series by Dr. Baker on Our Values about core American values. This week, Dr. Baker is discussing marriage: do you think it's becoming obsolete?

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Posted: Fri Jan 13 9:39 a.m. by Wayne Baker Community Contributor
Marriage: How does your ideal family stack up with these?

Editor's note: This post is part of a series by Dr. Baker on Our Values about core American values. This week, Dr. Baker is discussing marriage; do you think it's becoming obsolete?.

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Posted: Fri Jan 13 5:44 a.m. by Wayne Baker Community Contributor
Marriage: Who needs it? (Millions of Americans don't)

Editor's note: This post is part of a series by Dr. Baker on Our Values about core American values. This week, Dr. Baker is discussing marriage; do you think it's becoming obsolete? Are you married? If so, you and your spouse are members of what may soon be the newest ...

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Posted: Sat Aug 20 5:30 a.m. by Kerry Novick AnnArbor.com Community Contributor

Dear Kerry,This isn’t exactly a parenting question, but maybe it is. I’ve been interested in your take on parenting issues when I have read your column. My fiance and I are 21 years old. We both have jobs and have been engaged for a year. We are committed to each ...

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Posted: Wed Aug 3 9 a.m. by Darcy Crain-Polly AnnArbor.com Community Contributor
Should the church's role in marriage go beyond the symbolic and traditional?

This summer has been one marked with a whole lot of weddings. As a clergy person, I get a front row seat in this extremely important life passage. I read them their vows, wait with nervous grooms in the back hallway, and watch mothers dab away tears in the front ...

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Posted: Tue Jul 19 7:18 a.m. by Mona Shand AnnArbor.com Community Contributor
A promise to my husband on our anniversary

Recently some family friends told us they will be renewing their wedding vows in honor of their 10th anniversary. They are doing it up Las Vegas style, complete with the drive-through wedding chapel and all the essential Elvis accoutrements. That, and the fact that today my husband and I celebrate ...

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Posted: Fri May 20 6:10 a.m. by Lucy Ann Lance AnnArbor.com Community Contributor
Q&A: Attorney Monika Sacks talks about family law in wake of Schwarzenegger-Shriver separation

After 25 years of marriage, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver have announced their separation, and Schwarzenegger admitted he fathered a child with a household staffer more than a decade ago. Ann Arbor family law attorney Monika Sacks of Nichols, Sacks, Slank, Sendelbach & Buiteweg appeared on “The Lucy Ann Lance ...

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Posted: Wed Nov 24 6:55 a.m. by Chris Wucherer AnnArbor.com Community Contributor
The Saner Living Guru:  Thanksgiving is an opportunity for reconnecting with others

Copyright All rights reserved by Chat in the Hat, flickr In my last post, I talked about how to take a planned relationship break when a relationship no longer feels good. Thanksgiving is a time when family and friends come together around tables filled with platters of treasured recipes to ...

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Posted: Wed Sep 8 8:38 p.m. by Heather Lockwood
Paralyzed patient marries long-time girlfriend at University of Michigan Hospital

After her long-time boyfriend was severely injured in a construction accident in June, Vicki Wood vowed she would marry him if he survived. On Wednesday, Wood kept that promise as her father escorted her into a small chapel at the University of Michigan Hospitals where Mark Dèsy, dressed in a ...

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Posted: Mon Sep 6 10 a.m. by Ahmed Chaudhry Community Contributor

The concept of interfaith marriage along with its microscopic and macroscopic implications has been a hotly contested topic for me with several people that I have talked to over the course of my young adult life. There are definite advantages and disadvantages to an interfaith marriage, though it seems that ...

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Posted: Sun Aug 29 2 p.m. by Tina Reed
How an Ann Arbor couple 'greened' up their wedding day - and ideas on how you can too

When Eric Engel and Cathy Dyer began planning their wedding, it was only appropriate that they would decide to go “green.” After all, the first time they met was at an evening bonfire at a camp by the lake. Engel joined the group late and Dyer offered a friendly welcome.

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Posted: Sun May 23 8:34 a.m. by Chris Wucherer AnnArbor.com Community Contributor

Is this song about co-dependency or compassionate partnership? In most long-term enduring partnerships, there is a give and take that balances out over the long haul. Along with the joy, love and fun times comes personal and couple challenges. Sometimes the challenges come from within a person in the form ...

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Posted: Mon Feb 1 6:07 p.m. by Nathan Bomey Business news director
Rick Snyder to air Super Bowl ad in Michigan as gubernatorial finances reported

Michigan’s gubernatorial campaign is about to heat up in super fashion, but the top candidates are angling for votes with relatively small piles of cash.

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Posted: Sun Jan 10 6 a.m. by Annie Zirkel Community Contributor
Connecting with your spouse instead of getting a divorce

With some variation here's how married life often happens. You meet the person of your dreams. You fall in love, get married, set up a home and possibly add some children. But then what? Life gets busy. Kids, job requirements, house maintenance, individual hobbies, outside friendships and extended family obligations ...

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