Tag: Marriage

Why Men Fear Marriage The Surprising Truth Behind Why So Many Men Can’t Commit


Free Download RM Johnson, "Why Men Fear Marriage: The Surprising Truth Behind Why So Many Men Can’t Commit"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1439101507, 143916360X, 1439101493 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.3 mb
You’re out there dating, and you’re looking for marriage material, but how can you tell if the guy who’s wining and dining you tonight has (somewhere deep inside his complex male machinery) the potential to make a lifelong commitment? And what can you do to significantly increase your odds for finding Mr. Right?

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Remittance of Thai Female Marriage Migrants in Germany Motives, Challenges, and Family Relationships


Free Download Kusuma Haklin, "Remittance of Thai Female Marriage Migrants in Germany: Motives, Challenges, and Family Relationships"
English | ISBN: 3658416858 | 2023 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Remittances of Thai female married migrants have been one of the recognized conflicts among Thai-German spouses for a long time. However, the issue of remittance has only been partially debated and clarified as the economic support of Thai wives towards their natal family in Thailand. This book analyzes the determinants that influence Thai migrant wives to send remittances to their natal families and investigates the impact of remitting on both their marital and origin family relationships. The study acquired primary data from the eight key informants by a case study research approach, and supportive information from secondary informants who were personally related to the key informants. Data collection methods included interviews (in-depth and focus-groups) and observations (non-participant and participant). The findings revealed that the financial aspect is the least significant reason for sending remittances among Thai wives in Germany. The remittance practice appears to be an adoption of the cultural gratitude belief deeply rooted in Thai wives’ mentality. Thai women reported having remitted to their parents before they married and maintaining this practice as a particular way to perform their decent child’s duty towards parents while living abroad. Remitting also carried a symbolic meaning of love and care underpinned by the concept of a gratitude culture.

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Odd Couples A History of Gay Marriage in Scandinavia


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English | 2011 | pages: 247 | ISBN: 9052603812 | PDF | 5,1 mb
The concept of marriage as a union of a man and a woman was fundamentally challenged by the introduction of registered partnership in Denmark in 1989. Odd Couples is the first comprehensive history of registered partnership and gay marriage in Scandinavia. It traces the origins of laws which initially were extremely controversial-inside and outside the gay community-but have now gained broad popular and political support, as well as the positive effects and risks involved in state recognition of lesbian and gay couples. Through a comparison of how these laws have been received and practiced in all of the Scandinavian countries, including Greenland and the Faroe Islands, the author presents a nuanced study of a fascinating political process that began in the 1960s and continues to change the way we understand family, sexuality and nation.

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Marriage Forecasting Changing the Climate of Your Relationship One Conversation at a Time


Free Download Dan B. Allender, "Marriage Forecasting: Changing the Climate of Your Relationship One Conversation at a Time"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0830838414 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.3 mb
What’s the forecast for your marriage? Marriages are as variable as the weather, and every marriage has a climate. Some are chilly and lack intimacy. Others are stormy and filled with conflict. But while the weather outdoors is beyond our control, the communication climates within our homes can be changed-for the better. Communication specialist Tim Muehlhoff offers simple strategies for improving the climate of a marriage. Our individual words and actions always take place within an overall atmosphere of expectations. Without a healthy climate of trust, we are prone to miscommunication and misunderstanding. Muehlhoff shows how to take an accurate climate reading of a relationship and explains what causes climates of poor communication. With current research on marital communication, listening skills, empathy and conflict resolution, Marriage Forecasting provides practical ways for couples to rebuild a warm relational climate. Don’t just talk about the weather. Break the cold front, clear the fog, and change the extended outlook for your marriage.

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Deepening Your Marriage Applying Marriage to the Truths of I Corinthians 13


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English | 2017 | pages: 168 | ISBN: 1512788384, 1512788392 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
No matter how good a marriage is, it must keep on growing if it is to remain happy and fulfilling. This study takes the truths of I Corinthians 13 and applies them to the wife’s relationship to her husband. Each chapter takes one thought, analyzes that thought, and then matches it up to Jesus’s character. Finally, it puts those truths to work in your marriage in ways that become real, causing good marriages to be enriched and struggling marriages to be helped.

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A Marriage in Dog Years A Memoir


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English | 2018 | ISBN: 1503940012, 1503940020 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.6 mb
When Nancy Balbirer learns her beloved eleven-year-old beagle has kidney failure, she’s devastated. She and her husband had gotten Ira as a puppy―a wedding gift to each other, and their first foray into "parenthood." Now, her dog is terminal, her marriage is on life support, and Nancy is desperate to save them both (whether they want it or not). In a single year, she loses her two best friends, but Nancy’s life is about to take yet another unexpected turn.

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