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The Lifecycle Stages of a Marriage (2005)

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Office/Committee
Year Published
  • 2011
Language
  • English

THE LIFECYCLE STAGES OF A MARRIAGE by Barbara Markey, ND, Ph.D. Archdiocese of Omaha

A healthy lifelong marriage involves building “multiple marriages” with the same spouse. Partners invested in a marriage covenant are committed to a continuing process that has some discreet stages and many transitions that can become either destabilizing events or normative development. Change is a given in this process and ability to adapt is essential. Understanding and sustaining this “marrying process” is a vital challenge for the Church. 

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