Faith and marital fidelity go hand in hand: study

"Where you worship - and whether you worship at all - could be connected to your likelihood of straying from your marriage vows.

People who identify with a faith group are less likely to cheat on their spouses than those with no religious affiliation, a new study has found. But even among the religious set, the odds vary according to denomination."

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Ages and stages of marriage

"Research also indicates that those couples who participate in a solid pre-marital preparation program increase their odds dramatically of developing a healthy happy marriage. It should be a preparation period of three to six months and involve not only a pastor but also a mentor couple or couples.

This preparation time gives the couple an opportunity to determine their common ground, shared beliefs and values, and time to think through their current and future relationship. Meeting with a mentor couple helps them to recognize others have navigated through similar paths and thrived. One of the best gifts other family members and friends can give to an engaged couple is the encouragement of the need to attend adequate pre-marriage programs. They can be life changing."

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Marriage is "greener" than divorce, finds study

"Divorce has previously unrecognized environmental impacts including higher demand for resources and lower efficiency in household resource use, reports a new study published in the early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."

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Living Your Values

I was doing some searching around the Web and I found this column on the Couple-to-Couple League site, written by an EE alum couple.

I'm not sure when it was written, but it's a lovely testament to EE, Natural Family Planning, living out the marriage sacrament and following God's plan.

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