Category: marriage

Childhood Sweethearts Married for 63 Years Died Within 72 Hours of Each Other

A British couple, married for 68 years, died within 72 hours of each other after never spending a single day apart. The couple, former beauty queen Brenda and Terrance Studd, said it was love at first sight when they met as 15-year-old teens all the way back in 1953. They married at the young age of 16…


The Many Meanings of Marriage: Centuries-Old Wisdom 

So that they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. —Matthew 19:6  Since biblical times, we’ve been searching for our other halves, wanting to ride into the sunset with our one true love, and marrying the love of our life. But marriage traditions through…


Couple Married for 7 Decades Reveal Their Secret to a Happy, Long Relationship

A couple who have been married for 70 years revealed the secret to their long marriage: “having a laugh” together. Davie and Margaret Hunter met when they both worked for Schweppes fizzy drink factory, 71 years ago. Davie, 93, worked with lorries while Margaret, 89, was an operator. During their courtship days, Davie would miss his bus…


Couple Married For 70 Years Reveal the Secret Behind Their Harmonious Relationship

A nonagenarian couple who have been married for 70 years have shared what kept their relationship harmonious: the husband does what he’s told. Syd and Enid Reid, both 92, played a lot of sports together in their younger days and later took up Scottish country dancing, and line dancing. They met during a church service at…


How to Communicate (Calmly) With a Defensive Partner

Sarah, Jon’s girlfriend of three years, experiences Jon as “bafflingly defensive.” Jon responds that he has been called “defensive” by every woman he’s ever dated. Not surprisingly, he denies his own defensiveness, and blames his ex-girlfriends for being demanding, impossible to please, aggressive, and his favorite criticism: controlling. According to Sarah, just trying to tell…


‘I’m Pretty Romantic’: Tom Selleck Shares Secret Behind 33 Years of Happy Marriage to Wife Jillie

Tom Selleck has been immortalized on the silver screen for decades, but the actor’s marriage to dancer Jillie Mack has proven equally longevous, still going strong after 33 years. After a secret wedding ceremony with Mack in 1987, Selleck left his then-hit TV series “Magnum P.I.” to raise a family the following year. The actor claims…


5 Tips for Making Sure Your Marriage Survives the Pandemic–According to Relationship Experts

For better or for worse, the pandemic has thrust many spouses into spending more time together than in pre-pandemic times. Normal, mundane concerns about money, domestic chores, and child-rearing have taken a backseat to more overwhelming concerns about health and even mortality. Not to mention, remote working, reduced freedoms, and the confines of a shared…


America’s New Birth of Marriage: Reconsidering the Founders’ Understanding of Marriage and Family

Commentary The United States is engaged in a prolonged struggle over the meaning of marriage, and the American Founders’ conception of marriage remains something formidable to reckon with in this contest. The centrality of the Founders’ thinking was apparent in the 2015 Supreme Court same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges, in which each side argued that…


Rules of Engagement: How to NOT Fight With Your Fiance About Money

Dear Carrie: My boyfriend and I just got engaged. While we agree on most things, we seem to have a lot of differences when it comes to handling money and have had several arguments about it. How can we keep this from becoming an ongoing problem?—A Reader Dear Readers: “How to avoid fighting about money”…


The ‘Spousal Bump’

Recently, I’ve received emails from several readers who asked questions about something they call the “spousal bump.” It’s a term I never heard before, and it made me chuckle. It sounds to me like some kind of “dirty dancing” move done by an old married couple in a shady nightclub! I can just see a…