Memorial Day and Love Forever

Today, we took off on a journey of remembrance. Memorial Day 2008 seemed like a good day to embark on this trip down the memory road of love. Today’s trip down the memory road of love brought forth an avalanche of thoughts about the meaning of love – particularly about love on such a sacred day as Memorial Day.

Charley’s Uncle Verney was a war hero. He fought in World War II, participated in the liberation of Paris, and was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge. Frankly, that fateful day changed Verney’s life forever. He took a machine-gun shell through his thigh. Miraculously, someone drug him to the cellar of an abandoned farm house where he nursed his wound by himself for nearly a week. Before his death, Uncle Verney recounted many times how good he felt the day he was saved by an American Medic.

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Traditional Marriage Is NOT Dead

Traditional marriage is NOT dead and we know that for a fact. We hear them all the time – those purveyors of half-truths, un-truths, and political agendas. You know the ones – the ones who continually pronounce to the world that traditional marriage is dead. Well, all we can say is – don’t believe it!

In the year just ended, there is substantial support for our point of view. According to the best estimates we can find, there were some 43,500,000 marriages worldwide in 2007. There were 8,750,000 divorces in the same year. If you do the math you can see that worldwide, marriages outnumber divorces by a ratio of 5 to 1. Stated clearly and succinctly, there were five marriages for every one divorce in the world last year. Hardly sounds like the death of marriage to us.

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NEVER Go To Bed Mad!!

On the Today Show this morning a remarkable segment aired. It was remarkable not because it was good or enlightening, but because it wasn’t. In fact, it was downright misleading and we want to comment on it.

A psychologist and the managing editor of Good Housekeeping were on the Today Show to proclaim that the notion of “never go to bed mad at each other” was a myth. Imagine, calling such a time-honored notion a myth. Listening to them made our skin crawl and here’s why – credible research does not support what they said.

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The Perfect Wedding - Jenna Bush Marries Henry Hager

Ah, fairy tales do come true, it can happen to you! And to Jenna Bush and Henry Hager, their dream is about to come true when they tie the knot in Crawford, Texas on May 10. What makes the location even more special for us – we actually know where Crawford, Texas is! We went to a barbeque there once when Charley was a Dean at Baylor University in Texas. While a one-stoplight town, it will soon be home to the wedding of one of the twin daughters of the President of the United States, George W. Bush, and to First Lady, Laura Bush. Thousands will gather for the wedding and the ensuing celebrations. We are excited for them! We are excited for the Bush family.
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Do You Mommy Your Husband?

We just had to comment this evening on a CNN Article "Do You Mommy Your Husband?" In our 25+ years of research with successfully married couples, we have never heard any evidence to support this notion. In the hundreds of interviews representing over 15,000 years of collective marital wisdom, the couples we interviewed reported that they care deeply for and pamper each other. However, we have never had this kind of behavior reported from successfully married couples. There is absolutely no research or scientific evidence to support this article. CNN had to make this stuff up. Only at the end of this article did they get it right with the comments "Bottom line, Schwartz says: A normal amount of nurturing is fine, but to keep a relationship healthy, show your affection in a respectful way. After all, one thing is certain, she says: 'He doesn't want to be married to his mother."

We would like to hear what you think.