Domestic Peace

There is a pattern to the marital problems that people share. Here’s our list of the top ten things that you need to try and avoid in your own marriage.

It took time to get your marriage in a rut. It will take time to get your marriage out of a rut. Here is a seven-step approach to help the two of you get your marriage out of a rut and repair your marriage.

Here’s information about the wedding and celebrity marriage of Julia Roberts and Daniel Moder.

Here is background information on Michael Jackson’s two marriages, both of which ended in divorce due to irreconcilable differences.

After knowing one another for a couple years, Sandra Bullock and Jesse James tied the knot. Here’s information on how Jesse James and Sandra Bullock met, their wedding, and more.

Here is a collection of gifts suggested by our readers to give on your first anniversary.

Suggestions for traditional paper gifts for your first wedding anniversary.

Whenever we see a commercial for the Bridezillas television show or read news about out of control brides and grooms, we cringe. Don’t these people sense that their chances of having a happy marriage are slim?

Dr. John Gottman has a mathematical equation that predicts with 94 percent accuracy whether or not a marriage will last. Now, a wedding planner, Samantha Goldberg, shares five signs that “are predictors of whether a couple will live happily ever after or bite the dust.”

The signs that Goldberg mentions in the Cosmopolitan article include choosing the wedding cake, interferring mothers, the wedding dress, the bachelor party, and how a couple argues. We agree with her.

Red flags are warning signs. They are alerts that things are not right in a relationship and that the couple needs help. There are ways that a couple can lower their odds for divorce before they marry.

Goldberg shared an example of an engaged couple she refused to work with because she was sure the marriage wouldn’t last. It would be great if wedding officiants made the same decision when they recognized a couple in trouble. A couple could then postpone the wedding and attend an additional premarital workshop if they truly want a successful marriage.

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Their first tour together was named "Spontaneous Combustion" and predicted the future marriage of these two entertainers. Learn more about their marriage relationship, children, and value concerning the limit they have placed on the amount of time they can be apart from one another.

Staying out of the public eye, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner surprised many with their announced wedding on June 29, 2005. Here is more information about their wedding and marriage relationship.