Right now the divorce rate among Christians is nearly as high as for society in general, even though most Churches oppose divorce. It seems like requiring extensive premarital counseling and Bible study about marriage expectations would help prepare people for marriage and help reduce the divorce rate. Certainly Christians need to do whatever is possible reduce divorce, and it seems that this may help

I like this one someone told me: Just touch his toes with your toes.

Meaning – When you are in bed together, reach over and touch his toes with your toes. You will start to feel so much love for this person laying beside you and gratitude for him being there. And this gratitude is what gets you through the hard parts, and to see the bigger picture without sweating the small stuff.

What is the best marriage advice someone told you?

he cheated prior to marriage, during marriage and ongoing affair while separated. He is expected to come into a large amount of money and provides a good lifestyle. I don’t want the title of a single mother so I am putting aside emotion for my children. I want him to fix our broken family. Any tips and suggestions on counseling or therapy to reform a cheating husband?

I love my fiancee dearly, but I’ve been burned really bad from previous divorce, have kids and there is a significant asset difference in terms of what each party is bringing into the marriage.

I am seriously considering getting married again. I am the wealthy one and I thought about prenuptial agreement lately. But my boyfriend doesn’t feel comfortable with it, because he believes that he would never leave me first. He also said, if the marriage fails because of his fault, he would give all his assets to me; but if I am the one who brings up divorce then I should give him some of my assets. He believes by doing this, we both would seriously try our best to keep the marriage work and grow old together. I could not argue with him, and I thought there is some truth in what he said, although back in my head I am still a little worried.

My question: will my assets before this marriage be protected JUST IN CASE the marriage falls if we don’t have pre-nuptial agreement? I remember one friend told me that, by default, California law states that the assets before marriage is not community assets, which means the other spouse is not entitled to it even without prenup. Is this true

What is marriage all about? Why get married? What does marriage mean to you? Please help answer these…

After 16 years of marriage- Two years of of arguing and 3 months of sleeping in seperate rooms and things being really bad- I find myself in counseling (he promised my son he would try everything he could to make it work).

However, I have learned that
1. He loves me but doesn’t know if he is IN love with me (are we 12?)
2. He doesn’t feel an attraction towards me anymore- which is why he isn’t sure he is IN love with me.
3. He doesn’t like to talk much because when we do- (in his eyes) it always leads to a fight.

I KNOW he isn’t having an affair (yet anyway).

I work on the counseling assignments- he just flows through day to day- he barely even says hi and goodnight- could he just be pushing for me to be the one to leave- so that he doesn’t have to look like the bad guy and could say -well, I went to counseling, I tried?

Thanks all-

Sad Mama
I said ALOT were kids- not ALL for those who seem to be taking offense.
I’m sure…

I take VERY good care of myself. I am always well prepared (hair – makeup – clothes) . The one night I went to dinner by myself because I was angry- I had 4 different men come and talk to me. (No it wasn’t a bar).

If my business is an LLC or if i am a sole proprietor what would happen in both these instances if I would get a divorce? Would my ex have any right to the business if there was no prenuptial agreement & if my business partner is not my spouse.
I live in Virginia, and this is purely hypothetical so there is no timeline for the marriage.

I am getting divorce and I dont want my lawyer to charge me for every question I have, so I’d like to know what is the answer of discovery about and how will it be used. I was a full time mom during my marriage and I am kind of nervous about the whole situation. Need help.

My husband and I got into an argument last night about money……money seems to be the center of most of our arguments. We are not doing well financially right now.

Every time we get into a rut, he always says "It’s going to get better". It hasn’t.

The reason this question is in the Religion section is because I want some Christian opinions.

Christians, what do you do when you and your spouse have a financial argument? How is it settled? Do you ever have a hard time forgiving each other when money is brought up?

BTW, I am a Christian.

The money situation, I feel, is tearing us apart and I hate to think like that.

There are other things in our marriage that we have problems with too……like when we argue, I don’t like to argu at all in front of other people…..he doesn’t seem to care. He has all these ideas about wanting to get another vehicle, and I don’t really want to and he wants to "Put money into it", etc.

Advice?
I’m not sure how "Christian" my husband is anymore, either. He doesn’t want to even give the 10% tithe that we are told in the Bible to give. I tell him that if we do, God will bless us for it ….. but he doesn’t want to.

If he is supposed to lead, then why isn’t he making the right decisions???

I’m not going to want to let him get a "project car" and keep us in huge debt.