The Marriage Journal

An interactive marriage journal featuring weekly questions to help navigate and deepen your relationship through consistent communication.

Most of the marriage journals currently available to spouses are simply about documenting the events of your marriage and family. These are great to reminisce over with your spouse 10, 15, or 50 years down the road but these won't help your marriage reach those amazing milestones. What if a journal could help you build and strengthen your marriage? What if a journal can help rekindle that love intimacy you felt when you first started dating your spouse?That's what the Build Your Marriage Journal does!What will you find in Build Your Marriage?* Find out why this journal works!* Weekly journal prompts with sections for you and your spouse. * Weekly actions that build on the journal prompts and will help increase intimacy in your marriage.

Couples are busy, and marital unhappiness is on the rise, which makes staying connected to our loved ones a challenge. But what if instead of waiting for life to slow down, you made "us time" a priority? Dive into The Joyfully Married Couples Journal and let the fun, faith-filled conversations begin. This creative couple's journal contains one insightful question a day for an entire year. You and your spouse will share hopes, dreams, intimate moments, and thoughts about your lives together. The goal is to peer into each other's inner worlds as you celebrate your marriage. Contrary to popular belief, love is not something couples haphazardly fall in and out of. Love is a verb, and like all verbs, love requires action. Just as eyes blink and hearts beat, love knows another person profoundly and acts kindly toward them. The Joyfully Married Couples Journal will help you and your loved one take action. This journal contains a separate space for each of you to write your answers and enough space to repeat this process for up to three years. This allows you to reflect on previous answers, track your growth, and turn this marriage journal into a valuable keepsake. The average couple gets stuck between saying "I do" on their wedding day and finding their happily ever after. But you can break out of this slump by connecting more often, more deeply, and more joyfully than ever before. This journal will guide you each step of the way!

The Marriage Checkup is designed to help couples assess the strengths and weaknesses of their relationship and to develop strategies for strengthening its health. Like physical health, the health of a relationship can be developed to greater levels of fitness and resilience to illness. Thus, even healthy couples can benefit from a marital health perspective by developing exercises for optimizing their health and fitness. This book primarily serves couples interested in improving the health of their relationship. Counselors and therapists may recommend that their couples-patients use the book. Additionally, the book may be of interest to professors of marriage and family counseling.

Marriage has been declared dead by many scholars and the media. Marriage rates are dropping, divorce rates remain high, and marriage no longer enjoys the prominence it once held. Especially among young adults, marriage may seem like a relic of a distant past. Yet young adults continue to report that marriage is important to them, and they may not be abandoning marriage, as many would assume. The Marriage Paradox explores both national U.S. data and a smaller sample of emerging adults to find out how they really view marriage today. Interspersed with real stories and insight from emerging adults themselves, this book attempts to make sense of the increasingly paradoxical ways that young adults are thinking about marriage. The combination of national trends, statistical findings, and quotations from emerging adults makes for a deep exploration of why we see the marital trends of today, and why they may not actually represent emerging adults moving away from marriage.

While this book contains numerous facts and empirical findings and touches on policy issues, its main contribution to the existing literature lies in the theoretical perspective it offers. The core of this book is a general equilibrium theory of labor and marriage presented in Chapter 2, which provides the conceptual framework for the rest of the chapters. Two major implications of the theory are sex ratio effects and compensating differentials in marriage. The book demonstrates how a few core concepts, linked via economic analysis, help explain a multitude of findings based on statistical analyses of data from a wide variety of cultures. It is hoped that readers of this book will improve their understanding of how marriage works to help us design better economic and social policies as well as help people live better and happier lives, making the book of interest to not only economists but sociologists and anthropologists as well.

Andrew J. Cherlin's three decades of study have shown him that marriage in America is a social and political battlefield in a way that it isn’t in other developed countries. Americans marry and divorce more often and have more live-in partners than Europeans, and gay Americans have more interest in legalizing same-sex marriage. The difference comes from Americans’ embrace of two contradictory cultural ideals: marriage, a formal commitment to share one's life with another; and individualism, which emphasizes personal choice and self-development. Religion and law in America reinforce both of these behavioral poles, fueling turmoil in our family life and heated debate in our public life. Cherlin’s incisive diagnosis is an important contribution to the debate and points the way to slowing down the partnership merry-go-round.

The third edition of Handbook of Marriage and the Family describes, analyzes, synthesizes, and critiques the current research and theory about family relationships, family structural variations, and the role of families in society. This updated Handbook provides the most comprehensive state-of-the art assessment of the existing knowledge of family life, with particular attention to variations due to gender, socioeconomic, race, ethnic, cultural, and life-style diversity. The Handbook also aims to provide the best synthesis of our existing scholarship on families that will be a primary source for scholars and professionals but also serve as the primary graduate text for graduate courses on family relationships and the roles of families in society. In addition, the involvement of chapter authors from a variety of fields including family psychology, family sociology, child development, family studies, public health, and family therapy, gives the Handbook a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary framework.