Summer Love

There is something about the summer that encourages love. Maybe it’s the bright summer sun. It could be the warm summer breeze. Maybe it’s the refreshing summer water! Perhaps, it is the summer vacation. And isn’t baseball played mostly in the summer?

Whatever the cause, it appears that most people fall in love during the summer and get married during the summer – more than in any other season of the year. In fact, the research data we have collected over the years for our new book, Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage, reveals that the months of June, July, August, and September are the most popular months to get married. Needless to say, we have often wondered why. Why all this Summer Love?

Read the rest of the article to learn why.

Finding An Ideal Husband

On July 6, Maureen Down wrote an Op-Ed piece for the New York Times entitled, "An Ideal Husband." Let us say up front that we do not often share the views of Ms. Dowd as we believe her musings tend to be on both the negative and the cynical sides of life, and as you know, we take a much more positive approach when we talk about love and relationships. Ms. Dowd extensive quotes from Father Pat Connor, a 79-year old Catholic priest, born in Australia and based in Bordentown, New Jersey. His views about finding the ideal husband simply cannot be supported.

We have studied successful marriage for over 25 years. We report our findings in our new book entitled, Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage (©2008). More than anything, finding the one you want to marry is, in the end, a matter of the heart. We believe there are better ways to determine if you have found the right person to marry.

Read more to find out what an ideal husband really is.

Love's Core Values

We have learned a lot about successful love and marriage in the USA and around the world over these past 25+ years. The results of our studies are shared in our new book entitled Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage. It is not our purpose in this article to articulate for you those “seven secrets.” What we would like to do is share with you what we have found to be the Seven Core Values of All Loving Relationships.

Over the past 25 years, we have learned much about what makes great marriages tick – about what makes them successful. Even in spite of ominous odds from time to time, the best marriages survive and thrive, and we know why! They survive and thrive because they are committed to the Core Values present in all great marriages and successful loving relationships.

Read the article to learn the seven core values of love.