How to Stay Happily Married for Over 50 Years Scholar, researcher, and educator, Dr. Victoria M. Rey explains how to build foundations for a successful relationship during the dating stage and strengthen these in the partnership journey to maintain a forever happy life based on her experience and research. She provides answers to the following questions. What do I need to do to have a successful date? How do I determine if my date is a potential good spouse? How can I have a happy relationship with my partner? What strategies can help me maintain a long-lasting, happy relationship or married life? Typically, sustaining a relationship or marriage is not taught in schools. As such, there is a need for people who intend to date someone, enter a relationship, get married, or sustain a marriage to acquire reasonable knowledge and skills for a successful partnership. Sexuality education is taught in schools in several countries to equip the youth with the knowledge and skills necessary to make responsible decisions relating to sexual health. Research indicates the positive impact of comprehensive sexuality education. Despite this curricular offering, some students enter a relationship or get married at an early age. Some partnerships or marriages of adolescents and adults result in separation or divorce. This book, How to Stay Happily Married for Over 50 Years, provides partners and potential married couples with the necessary knowledge, skills, and mindset for a long-lasting, happy relationship despite individual differences and challenging situations. It gives tips on finding a date, recognizing a potential good life partner, getting married, and sustaining a happy relationship. These strategies are based on Dr. Rey's extensive experience and research. This book also presents questions that help readers examine what they did or intend to do to have a successful date, determine a potential spouse, and build foundations for a happy and long-lasting relationship with partners or spouses. People get married because they love each other, want to live together until death or consider other worthy reasons. Despite these good intentions, some couples divorce or separate. Marriages in countries worldwide show a sizable percentage of divorces (https://worldpopulation-country). In the United States, for example, the National Center for Health Statistics shows that 4-5 million people get married every year in the United States, and about 42-53% of those marriages eventually end in divorce (Marriage and Divorce, cdc.gov.). A 2005 United States national survey indicated 12 top reasons for divorce such as lack of commitment, constant arguing or conflict, infidelity, marrying too young, unrealistic expectations about partner or marriage, inequality between partners, inadequate preparation for marriage, domestic violence, financial problems, conflict about domestic work, lack of family support, and religious differences (psychcentral.com). This book, How to Stay Happily Married for Over 50 Years, shows how to build foundations for a successful relationship during the dating stage and strengthen these in the relationship journey to maintain a forever happy life. My husband, Solomon, and I use these tips to stay happily married for over 50 years. These are realistic and proven strategies for building and maintaining a long-lasting, happy relationship forever.

In the long-awaited follow-up to her groundbreaking, million-copy bestseller The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Dr. Laura now focuses on how men and women need to understand and appreciate the uniqueness of masculinity and femininity; what the best ways to relate, caretake, and nurture each other are; and how to bring a marriage back from the brink of disaster. Dr. Laura asserts that in order to produce and sustain a wonderfully satisfying marriage, spouses must recognize and appreciate the polarity between the masculine and the feminine. Both husband and wife have power in the relationship, and each needs to realize this in order to ensure personal satisfaction. Using real-life examples from her call-in radio show, and giving real-life solutions, Dr. Laura focuses on the typical mistakes made by men and women in their relationships and shows how marriages can not only survive but thrive.

The foundation of a happy marriage is honesty. Both spouses must be reliable, responsible, and resilient. A healthy marriage is a team effort. It takes hard work and selflessness. I find it interesting to read advice from marriage experts with many degrees and are on their third or fourth marriage. The purest knowledge and understanding we will find from good examples and experience. When you talk to couples that have been happily married for many years, you will find some commonalities and some differences. Every marriage is unique because it is made up of two individuals. That is one of the reasons why being married a long time can be so interesting and rewarding and should never become monotonous. Getting old together and still having fun is a reward that couples who have been married for many years celebrate. I hope that the couples who read this book benefit from its experiences and wisdom. The sacred vows you made were not a condemnation, but if truly applied, you both will learn that they were a liberation. My wish is that you have a long and blessed life together! Some marriages do not work out the first timethats just reality. The universal principles discussed in this book can help any relationship become happier and more rewarding. Dont give up on love.

#1 New York Times Bestseller Over 10 million copies sold In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek. There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.

Smile! It's not just the end of your marriage, it's the beginning of your second chance!Missy Benson has a two and a half carat diamond engagement ring with color grade H, VS2 clarity and a value of $36,000. It's absolutely gorgeous, practically flawless, and let's be honest, really big!But what the successful Chicago realtor doesn't have anymore is a husband. After 12 years of marriage, her husband, Paul, a handsome, wealthy attorney has devastated her by breaking up their marriage for Priscilla Sommerfeld, a young, personal trainer, who according to Missy's sassy assistant, J.J., looks more like a Las Vegas stripper than a fitness expert.Not sure what to do with her ring, and with no financial issues to worry about, Missy decides to put it up for sale on Craigslist. The price: 99 cents! The catch: She gets to pick the buyer. In essence, she's looking for the perfect guy, but not for herself. Her hope is to regain faith that good men do exist, and that marriages can last forever.Now referring to herself as "the divorced girl," Missy interviews dozens of young men who are vying for the huge ring. It's a contest that includes outrageous characters, hilarious and sentimental stories, and two finalists, both of whom Missy adores and who she must choose between. Then there's Parker Missoni, the sexiest contestant by far, who drives her crazy with his brutal honesty, and at the same time stops her heart with his deep brown eyes.Divorced Girl Smiling is the story of a woman's journey to do whatever it takes to heal herself from divorce. It's about acceptance, reflection, taking accountability for mistakes, and appreciating all of life's wonderful gifts. In other words, if you have the guts to put the past behind, admit your mistakes, embrace your future, and give love another chance, you will surely be a divorced girl smiling.

"One of the foremost relationship experts at work today offers creative insight on building trust and avoiding betrayal, helping readers to decode the mysteries of healthy love and relationships"--

Services, thoughts and experiences about being married to the love of my life for 50 years are to be unfolded in these pages. At the beginning of the book, I stated that even after 50 years, it isn't easy. I give advise on how to keep, or on how to be happy in marriage. It entails going to chick flicks even if you don't want to go but because she wants to. Do special things, do not criticize her, and assure her that everything will be OK. Love and understanding are difficult things to hang on to but these pages will hopefully show you that love and commitment will resolve every predicament in 50 years of long and happy marriage.

A step-by-step approach to making your marriage loving again.

A groundbreaking book--based on years of the same thorough research that made the "Dress For Success" books national bestsellers--about how women can statistically improve their chances of getting married.

Whether you are just about to take the big plunge or have already been married for 50 years, most couples discover that it takes a lot more than saying "I do" to reach wedded bliss. With How to Survive Your Marriage, both newlyweds and longer-married couples can benefit from the collective wisdom of hundreds of people who have learned how to make their marriages work, and who share their hard-earned advice in this book.