What Makes Love Last
According to The Ladies Home Journal (LHM) marriage researchers have switched from predicting how many unions will crumble to looking into what makes a marriage strong.
What a novel idea.
As per, Bobbie 
Yagel, co-author of 15 Minutes to Build a Stronger Marriage the follwoing are essential to creating a strong marriage:
- Increase praise. Psychologist John Gottman, Ph.D., who has studied two thousand married couples, says a minimum of five positive interactions for every negative one is essential to marital bliss. Gottman encourages plenty of touching, complimenting, smiling and laughing, and warns against criticism, contempt and defensiveness.
- Touch often. UCLA researchers determined that meaningful touch is crucial to maintaining an intimate relationship. Other studies have found that women in particular need eight to ten meaningful touches a day to stay mentally and physically healthy.
- Make marriage a priority. According to a study of fifty happily married couples by psychologist Judith Wallerstein, all fifty believed that creating a successful marriage was the major commitment of their adult lives.
Three seemingly simple steps to create a strong long lasting marriage. Then why is it they are the hardest to do.
Praise, touch, and priority (PTP). What a great recipe for all the people that we love.
mb\source: Ladies Home Journal
Get packing and head out to Cape May. 
hearts and minds of the world. Not as a military might, but as a dream come true for any girl, with another royal wedding. I believe, at one time or another, most of us fantasized meeting a prince just like in a story book. I certainly did. Wasn’t the story of Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, and more told based on this presumption? Even today our little girls are captured by the whole princess dream. As the old saying goes, “The more things change the more they stay the same.” Time has not diluted this fantasy. I know my granddaughter cannot get enough of the princess toys and stories.
