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.

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.

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.

A stressful, protracted divorce. A difficult, painful death of a beloved husband. And suddenly, after age 50, you’re on your own again. Your children have moved out, your parents are aging fast or deceased, your friends’ lives continue onward, seemingly unchanged. Being suddenly single after age 50 can be terrifying, but eventually it can also be liberating. It can be fraught with worry and decisions you’re unprepared initially to make, but it can also be a time to reevaluate, reestablish, and reinvent. It can be financially and emotionally unstable at times, but it can be the start of a new chapter, or the discovery of someone you didn’t know you were, or could become, after the grief of a loss so difficult. Long-time friends and authors Barbara Ballinger and Margaret Crane have a lot in common. Both lived in the same city for years. Both are writers. Both married their husbands right out of college. Both are mothers of grown children who have left home. And both had aging parents when these difficult journeys began. Both found themselves alone, husbands lost to divorce and death, two separate situations that were equally traumatic— for Barbara, a divorce that took four years to end, and for Margaret, a five-year, gut-wrenching siege of myriad cancers that ended in death. Barbara and Margaret struggled but discovered not only that their new lives were, indeed, worth living, but that the insight gleaned from their experiences could help other people in similar straits. The result is Suddenly Single After 50, an honest and riveting, yet funny and poignant guide that provides advice for those who find themselves divorced, widowed, or otherwise suddenly single just about the time they start getting those AARP cards in the mail and while many of their friends are gleefully discussing retirement plans and toasting milestone wedding anniversaries. Suddenly Single After 50 is told with authenticity, wit, and compassion. They discuss living alone, attending social events alone, eating by themselves, sleeping alone, walking and traveling alone, then how they also came to feel they were not alone, not really, with loyal friends and family. They share how their once right-sized houses suddenly felt empty, too big, and too full of stuff that no longer made sense. They write about all the legal and accounting woes that befell them. And they tell readers what it’s like to be over 50 and dating again—after decades out of that scene, which had changed in unfathomable yet often hilarious ways. Suddenly Single After 50 addresses what life is really like when it’s suddenly shaped as single. It helps readers understand the grief, frustration, and sadness alongside reawakening into the world. Anyone who finds themselves suddenly single in middle age and beyond--or knows someone who is--will find in these pages both advice and reflection, support, and a way forward.

Offering secrets for a happy marriage from couples married 50 years or more, this title guides busy couples to learn easy ways to build a successful marriage. Each entry includes a nugget of wisdom, the name of the couple, the date they married, and a brief biography.

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

Seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage. We hear plenty about whether or not to get married, but much less about what it takes to stay married. Clichés around marriage—eternal bliss, domestic harmony, soul mates—leave out the real stuff. After marriage you may still want to sleep with other people. Sometimes your partner will bore the hell out of you. And when stuck paying for your spouse’s mistakes, you might miss being single. In Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, Ada Calhoun presents an unflinching but also loving portrait of her own marriage, opening a long-overdue conversation about the institution as it truly is: not the happy ending of a love story or a relic doomed by high divorce rates, but the beginning of a challenging new chapter of which “the first twenty years are the hardest.” Calhoun’s funny, poignant personal essays explore the bedrooms of modern coupledom for a nuanced discussion of infidelity, existential anxiety, and the many other obstacles to staying together. Both realistic and openhearted, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give offers a refreshing new way to think about marriage as a brave, tough, creative decision to stay with another person for the rest of your life. “What a burden,” Calhoun calls marriage, “and what a gift.”