Marriage links for the week  

Irene has a lot of friends getting married this year. It has prompted her to ponder her own expectations for a future husband, as well as her reasons for wanting to be married and some challenges she is only now beginning to understand. Great posts, all of them.

Joe McKeever explains the importance of creating and maintaining family traditions.

Marla, the Proverbial Wife, has some thoughts on the proper care and feeding of husbands.

Wizard Needs Food Badly. Apparently that's a song I somehow missed in my teens. Affektion calls it "a great '80s child song about husband and wife relations, or boys and their toys." Maybe he's right.

The secret to a happy, long lasting marriage? According to researchers in England, it is "a common agenda quietly negotiated in those first few tricky years and then stuck to." Check out the bottom of the article for some other interesting links.

There is a mathematical equation for determining a person's optimal marrying age. I can't quite decipher what the equation is, but my best guess is M = (Y+1)/e + X - Y, with M being the age at which a person should take what they can get rather than gambling on the possibility of a better spouse coming along, Y being the age at which you start looking for a partner, X being the age at which you would give up and stop looking, and e being 2.718. According to this, I will reach my optimum marrying age next year, after seven years of marriage. I often repeat this to myself: "In matters of human will, statistics are irrelevant." I can say the same about mathematical equations.

Divorce is high among ex-NFL players. Love and trust are the two most important ingredients in marriage. Men fall in love more quickly than women. Mothers never get a pie in the face in movies. So says one columnist.

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