Among a certain demographic, marriage is viewed as something that, like work-life balance, yoga and locavore cuisine, needs to be continually worked at and improved upon.
An article on Sunday about the Social Security Administration's rejection of certain marriage certificates as proof of identity -- those issued in communities that allowed gay marriage ceremonies -- referred incorrectly to the same-sex marriage affidavits used by the office of Mayor Jason West of New Paltz, N.Y.
While I haven't been married or divorced myself, I'm a child of divorce (and therefore have a lot of opinions on the subject), and what makes certain marriages endure and others implode is a topic with which I've long been obsessed.
"But you want to believe that there are certain marriages that will last.
"One could even consider certain marriages where there are unequal financial resources to not be overly dissimilar," says Lichtenstein.
So I chose a certain symbolism of marriage over its conventional representation".
"At the same time, I believe rights were endowed to us by our creator, and our creator has a certain definition of marriage," she said.
It's a world where people have at least one country house (if not two: a summer retreat and another for winter getaways), a world where it's assumed that life will follow a certain path -- "marriage to someone like-minded," children raised with fondly remembered traditions and adherence to lots of social rituals that are supposed to keep "chaos and breakdown" at bay.
A Quiet Adjustment is the story of Byron's relations with his wife and sisters, and seems to be a work of standard historical fiction – albeit one that is devastating in its account of the cruelties of a certain kind of marriage.
If it is a certain type of marriage, you can think of a word to describe it, and then you may be able to find a more specific type of song that might fit their marriage more particularly!
