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Marriage
Marriage is the process by which two people who love each other make their relationship public, official, and permanent. It is the joining of two people in a bond that putatively lasts until death, but in practice is increasingly cut short by divorce. Of coures, over the course of a relationship that can last as many as seven or eight decades, a lot happens. Personalities change, bodies age, and romantic love waxes and wanes. And no marriage is free of conflict. What enables a couple to endure is how they handle that conflict. So how do you manage the problems that inevitably arise? And how can you keep the spark alive?
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The Latest on Marriage
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by Bella DePaulo, Ph.D.
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by Bella DePaulo, Ph.D.
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by Aaron Ben-Zeév, Ph.D.
How much are you willing to pay for love?
by Wanda Behrens-Horrell, L.C.S.W., NCPsyA
We know that marriage is difficult. Is it necessary?
by Wednesday Martin, Ph.D.
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by Bella DePaulo, Ph.D.
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