Living Happily Ever After Separately

Separate spaces may be an option for renewing relationships when marriages struggle or divorce is contemplated.

Marriage is a major milestone in a human life. Getting married is therefore a major decision not to be taken lightly. In this book, Tom and Guru Harry discuss the ins and outs of a married life. Guru Harry epitomizes someone from a spiritual society, who offers a way of living that can lead to peace, love, joy and harmony. In their conversation, Tom and Guru Harry discuss many issues on marriage including the following: (1) What are the consequences of being married? (2) What are the changes one has to make after being married? (3) How to live spiritually in a marriage? May this wisdom enable you to live happily ever after in a marriage!

In this playful and informative exploration of the science behind how to choose a great mate, acclaimed relationship psychologist Dr. Ty Tashiro explores how to find enduring love. Dr. Tashiro translates reams of scientific studies and research data into the first book to revolutionize the way we search for love. His research pinpoints why our decision-making abilities seem to fail when it comes to choosing mates and how we can make smarter choices. Dr. Tashiro has discovered that if you want a lifetime of happiness--not just togetherness--it all comes down to how you choose a partner in the first place. With wit and insight, he explains the science behind finding a soul mate and distills his research into actionable tips, including: Why you get only three wishes when choosing your ideal partner. Why most people squander their wishes and end up in unfulfilling relationships. How wishing for the three traits that really matter can help you find enduring love. Illustrated using entertaining stories based on real-life situations and backed by scientific findings from fields such as demography, sociology, medical science and psychology, Dr. Tashiro provides an accessible framework to help singles find their happily-ever-afters.

The Rev'd Dr. Robert W. Bosworth, Jr., retired Episcopal Priest and Ph.D. Licensed Clinical Pastoral Counselor, has over thirty years of parish, school and counseling experience. He is a member of the Nat'l Christian Counselors' Association and the Catholic Psychotherapist Association. Check out the Contents (inside) to see how this book can help you live happily ever after! Read more about the author inside the back cover. Read what some of his clients have to say: We stopped at Dr. Bob's office on the way to our divorce attorney.... and thank God we did. Last year we renewed our vows and are starting on the next 25 years! Gary and Dayle, Fort Worth My so call life as I knew it had completely crumbled from underneath me in an instant. I was broken. I was dead inside. I was lost. I was scared. My brother took me to Dr. B. I couldn't even drive! I didn't want to go. I thought it would be a waste of time. That was until I had my first session, then my second, then my third. The pain and the turmoil that I was feeling was suddenly being churned and kneaded to the point where it was slowly subsiding. He gave me hope when there was none. He gave me confidence when it had dissipated. In my 36 years on this earth, I've never met a more wise and brilliant and caring human being. My family and I could not be where we are today if it were not because of him. J.W., Kentucky Bob gave me this book as I started visiting with him last spring. If I'd had it when I was engaged, I would have never needed it five years into our marriage! My favorite part of the book was how practical it is. He told us you don't have to be a genius to turn your relationships around. We're not, but we did! Bill, Ohio I thought we'd tried everything to save our family, but there's stuff in here we never thought of that worked better and faster than we thought possible. Our marriage and family life have never been better. Even our kids have noticed that we actually love each other and enjoy family nights again! Jose and Maria, Dallas

The book talks about the tragic mysteries in our lives. Children lose their innocent smiles, and teens lose their laughter during their life journeys. These are the mysteries that baffle everyone. This book sheds light on those mysteries. People can easily relate to this book. The downfall of mankind and our personal tragedies are addressed in a convincing way. The first half of the book deals with family problems, which ultimately leave everyone feeling unsatisfied. The second half speaks about each person individually and offers simple, practical ways to keep them strong, compassionate, and happy.

This book is about the apparent incompatibility of romantic love and conventional marriage. They go together (the popular song has it) like a horse and carriage. But if the horse is ailing or otherwise not up to the task, the carriage will slowly rot away in the carriage house. It is also about the perverse fact that people bring to such relationships their expectations from the past as they remember them. Typically, they had hopes and dreams for their future together. When these are dashed, it occurs to them that they were better off before they got hitched. It is also about the fact that when love befalls us, we lose our bearings. "Love is blind," and all that. We drift into the conventional fairy tale about living "happily ever after." That's to be desired. But the fairy tale ends with that line. It never tells us what we need to do or be in order to live happily ever after. Under the spell of the fairy tale, which is basic fare in various forms in our culture, we set off happily enough. But how is it possible to maintain the delusion of the love state in the banality of the everyday life that inevitably ensues? Who told us that making a living or keeping a house in order is a far different world than a wedding? Who told us that babies rule the house, unless they are tended by someone else? Copulate we apparently must. But that has consequences that are not a part of the fairy tale. So people end up on the other side of the mirror. The world is not about lovers, the realization creeps upon us. It is about 40,000 other things. And those have to be dealt with most often before anything else. Thus the title, And They Lived Happily Ever Before. Imagination and reality are often two very different things. This book answers the question, "What Does Love Have to Do with It?" The answers may surprise you. But they will make love affairs that end in marriage far better than you might even imagine they could be.