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Divorce: Should You Sell Your House?

Ask any realtor, and they will quickly tell you that a significant portion of their business comes from sellers who are in the middle of a divorce, and there is a very good reason for this. Often, it makes the most sense for the divorcing parties to sell the marital home and go their separate ways, but not always. If you are headed for divorce and you and your spouse own a home, one of the …

Top 4 Reasons Spouses Cheat & What To Do About it

Top 4 Reasons Spouses Cheat One person in the relationship has an unhealthy addiction to sex Some make bad choices while they are under the influence of drugs or alcohol and they do something they normally wouldn’t have One spouse is seeking revenge because their spouse had an affair in the past One spouse is yearning for attention so they seek fulfillment with someone outside of the marital relationship No one can ever be prepared …

Is Lying to Your Spouse OK?

Everyone knows that the basic foundation of every relationship is honesty and trust. Being truthful helps build trust which is something that is slowly earned and easily broken. When the foundation of a relationship is built on lies, typically those relationships don’t last long because the truth has a tendency to come out and make itself known. So is it always that black and white? What about the little white lies that we tell now …

How to Have “The Talk” With Your Daughter: 5 Helpful Tips for Dads

Are you a single parent? Do you have a daughter? If so you understand how difficult it can be to relate to your daughter during her adolescence. Some subjects can be very embarrassing and sensitive. As a father it can be tough to talk about those uncomfortable subjects such as “the birds and the bees,” but it can sometimes be just as difficult for a mother. When speaking to your teenage daughter on the topic …

Divorce Anesthesia

There are two sides to every coin, and I will bet that just about everyone has been on both sides of this situation. In an article from The Huffington Post, writer Micki McWade discusses the different emotions between the spouse that leaves the marriage and the spouse that is left. Whether you are married or not, you have had relationships before and chances are you were in both of these shoes at one point. The …

Spoiled?

More and more I see children of divorce being spoiled with lavish gifts and expensive outings or vacations from both parents. Perhaps the parents feel guilty for putting their child through the divorce or are trying to make up for the time that they spend away from the child now that their time is split with the other parent. My nieces, who I dearly love, are children of a divorce and in my opinion they …

Brownie Points: An App for Your Relationship

Ever heard of the term, “There’s an app for that”? Well it would seem there’s an app for everything these days. The newest and somewhat wacky app is called “Brownie Points”. This app is directed towards relationships in the hopes of the couples fulfilling each others needs. Initially I thought this may be a bad thing and get couples fighting more than anything. However in the retrospect of what the app does (helps meet expectations …

Common Law Marriage in Denver

Common Law Marriage A couple does not have to have lived together for at any length of time in order to be considered common law married. Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is no time frame that qualifies a couple as husband and wife. Here is the biggest, most important factor: Heterosexual couples who hold themselves out to the public as being married—are married. So if you call him your husband to your family and others …

How Long Does it Take to Fall in Love?

How Long Does it Take to Fall in Love? A recent study using the measurement of our modern day i.e. (twitter, Facebook, texting etc) brought surprising results. “Back in the day” things didn’t happen so quickly and certainly weren’t as easy. If a man wanted to take a woman out that he was interested in, he would court her. This is a word seldom used in today’s fast paced texting, tweeting, snapchatting world. Today if …

Child’s Marriage May Be Annulled

In Kuala Lumpur, the marriage between a thirteen-year-old girl and the forty-year-old man accused of raping her, has caused major controversy. Even though they had been having sex after their marriage, the court could annul it under Islamic Family Law in Sabah, citing the consent factor. Reportedly the girl’s father got the court to allow his daughter to marry forty-year-old Riduan Masmud, a restaurant manager, but the court would not give its consent to let …


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