Knot now, Americans say
Maybe it’s the high cost of weddings, or perhaps it’s more and more people cohabitating before they marry, but whatever the reason, people are waiting longer to marry than they have in the past. According to the Washington Times: Since 1950, the average age for first marriage has crept up from 22.8 years to 27.1 [...]
The Cost of Weddings
The average cost of a wedding in the U.S. – according to SmartMoney.com – is now between $18,000 and $21,000. Other sources place the average cost at $26,327 with the average in the Tulsa area around $23,810. My initial thought was if I’m paying for three weddings at some point in the future, the average [...]
CSI and Cohabitation
Effects of Cohabitation Length on Personal and Relational Well Being The Alabama Policy Institute (API) conducted a study of more than 1,300 married couples. The study shows that the longer a couple cohabits before marriage, the less satisfied they are with their marriage. The longer a couple cohabits before marriage, the greater the amount of [...]
Child Sexual Abuse and the Church
I have written about child abuse allegations and the church before: here, here and here. I was once the interim/transitional pastor at a church where I discovered the husband of the children’s director was a convicted child molester (not merely accused but convicted) and two previous pastors had ignored the situation. I addressed the situation [...]
Postnuptial Depression
From The Independent: …Research published last week found that a woman’s libido drops steeply after marriage. Experts believe that levels of phenylethylamine, the so-called “love chemical”, fall in women but not in men once they are in a secure relationship. This may add to the problems of couples in their first year of married life. [...]
Careers And Marriage
Somehow I missed this last August: Don’t Marry Career Women Guys: a word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don’t marry a woman with a career. Why? Because if many social scientists are to be believed, you run a higher risk [...]
You can have it all
This is just too good to pass up: HAVIDOL Australian artist Justine Cooper created the marketing campaign for a non-existent drug called Havidol for Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder (DSACDAD), which she also invented. Cooper said she intended the exhibit to be subtle. “The drug ads themselves are sometimes so comedic. I couldn’t [...]
The Flirting Game
From the The Hamilton Spectator: A McMaster undergraduate student discovered that the video (of a flirty) girl was able to lower men’s opinions of their wives and girlfriends on 17 different characteristics simply by smiling, playing with her hair and gazing deeply into the camera. The flirty girl had only average looks and was answering [...]
Missed Ed, again
The last time Ed Stetzer was in town, I was out of town speaking at another church. Today, Ed was in town again. And, again, I wasn’t. I’m starting to think there may be some sort of conspiracy to keep me away from Ed’s ideas. Or maybe not, maybe it’s just a coincidence.
Secrets of Happily Married Women
Dr. Scott Haltzman is looking for women to interview for his new book called, “Secrets of Happily Married Womenâ€. Haltzman, author of the bestselling book Secrets of Happily Married Men which was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the “Six Books for a Better You in 2006†is now conducting research for married women [...]
