Debt and Marriage: How It is Tough to Love When You Owe

Many couples enter into a marriage with debt already in hand. Others accumulate debt together. Either way, nurturing a loving relationship can be hard when debt is hanging over your head. In fact, according to a study by Jeffrey Dew at Utah State University, couples who reported disagreeing about finance once a week were over 30 percent more likely to get divorced than couples who reported disagreeing about finances only a few times a month. Another inference can be made from this study: there is a whole lot of disagreement about money out there. Debt is a source of contention. … Continue reading

MyHeritage Introduces Record Matching

MyHeritage is a genealogy website that you can use to create your family tree for free. If you want access to more, then you need to purchase a subscription. A few months ago, they unveiled something called SuperSearch. Now, they have added Record Matching to the SuperSearch system. MyHeritage is a genealogy website that has been around since 2005. It is run by a company that is based in Israel. It has memberships from people who live all around the world. You can use MyHeritage to create your family tree and to do some genealogy research. There are ways to … Continue reading

MyHeritage Releases SuperSearch

MyHeritage is a genealogy website that genealogists can join for free. However, if you purchase a subscription it will give you access to more of what the website can offer. Recently, MyHeritage added something brand new. It is called SuperSearch. MyHeritage is a genealogy website that has been around since 2005. It is run by a company that is based in Israel, and it has an international members from all around the world. You can use MyHeritage to create your family tree, and to do some genealogy research. There are ways to share your research with other members of family … Continue reading

Insurance Blog Week in Review – April 1-7, 2012

The Insurance Blog Week in Review brings you a quick and easy way to “ketchup” on everything that hit the blog in the past week. There are always somewhere between 12 and 14 blogs that appear here, and it is easy to accidentally miss something that you wanted to read. What did you miss this week? What Do Insurance Brokers Do? This blog will clear up any confusion you might have about what insurance brokers do, how they get paid, and how they are connected to insurance companies. The Insurance Podcast Roundup went up on April 2, 2012. This week, … Continue reading

When Marriage Is Built Upon Manipulation

Have you ever tried to manipulate circumstances in your marriage, just to get your way? While it might provide temporary pleasure, the long-term consequences of this can be devastating to a marriage. At one time or another, we have all probably tried to use manipulation on our spouse. The degree to which it was used and the outcome might vary, but for the most part these are the rare occurrences in a marriage. However, some marriages can end up being built on manipulation. If you do this, I will do that. If you give me such and such, I will … Continue reading

How to Save Marriage After an Affair

You’re spouse cheated on you and now he says he wants to repair the damage he’s done to the marriage. This doesn’t make much sense to you but you’re willing to give it a try for the sake of your family. Understanding how to save your marriage after an affair is crucial to your recovery from infidelity. Step #1: Grieve the Loss of Your Old Marriage Your marriage before the affair has died. Just like mourning the death of a loved one, you must grieve the passing of a marriage you once knew and loved. Trying to sweep the affair … Continue reading

MyHeritage Acquires WorldVitalRecords.com

MyHeritage is a genealogy website that is constantly making improvements and additions to its website. It has just acquired WorldVitalRecords.com., which has a huge repository of records that will soon be available to users of MyHeritage. To celebrate this new addition, MyHeritage is offering a special discount. MyHeritage is a genealogy website that can be used for free. The company is based in the village of Bnei Atarot, which is located near Tel Aviv, Israel. You can use MyHeritage to create your family tree, to connect with other genealogists, and to search for information about your ancestors. It has a … Continue reading

When Your Marriage Faces Parenting Challenges

It’s been an interesting week in our home. There are points in time that everything is going along fairly smoothly. There may be a bump or two in the road, but nothing major. Then suddenly you have a week where all three of your preteen and teen children decide to test the waters or stretch your patience or whatever it may be. Suddenly your marriage finds itself being tested as well. Navigating through the relationship of a husband and wife is challenging enough without throwing into the mix some children. Now you have additional relationships to work through. Then there … Continue reading

Are You Selfish or Selfless in Your Marriage?

Let’s face it…it’s in our nature to be selfish. And our society sure knows how to fuel that. We expect instant results, instant gratification and instant service. Just about anything we want is at our disposal. So we have to be careful that we don’t take that into our marriages. One important component to a happy, successful marriage is selflessness. But I’m afraid that it’s not something we see demonstrated very often, so we may be unsure what that exactly looks like. To be selfless is to be the opposite of selfish. So it might include giving in on some … Continue reading

Grieving Your Marriage

Whether the divorce was wanted or not it is still ok to grieve what could have and should have been. We all want nothing more than for our kids to have their parents together, to have what I like to call that “fantasy family,” the one where you and your kids all live happily ever after. When I first got divorced, no one could understand why I was so devastated. The marriage had been a disaster long before it had even started. I was miserable and didn’t even realize it, but I wanted it back. I did not want to … Continue reading