Posts Tagged: marriage counseling

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Jennifer Lopez says couples therapy with Alex Rodriguez was ‘really helpful’

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Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez looked totally unbothered while arriving at Super Bowl LV in Tampa, Florida on Sunday.

The couple attended the big game days after the news broke that Alex had a brief, emotional Zoom fling with Southern Charm star Madison LeCroy, 31.

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J-Lo, 51, covers the March 2021 issue of Allure magazine. The mom-of-4 revealed how she and the former Yankees star "prioritized" their relationship last year.

"I miss being creative and running on 150," she says of the quarantine due to the COVID-19 outbreak. "But Alex, of all people, was like, 'I love it. I love being at home. I love doing my Zooms. I love knowing the kids are there, and you’re there all the time.'"

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J-Lo confessed that they sought couples therapy last year amid the coronavirus lockdown.

"It has been actually really good," Lopez continues. "We got to work on ourselves. We did therapy. I think it was really helpful for us in our relationship."

J-Lo likely wasn't aware that Alex was spending his quarantine Zooming with another woman.

A-Rod didn't get to second base with Madison (pun intended), but his fiancée should be concerned that he at least tried to slide into second base with Madison.

Maybe that's why Lopez delayed the wedding -- because she knew Alex, 45, wasn't ready to commit.

"We had been planning for months and months and months, and [the wedding] was overseas," she says. "Maybe that wasn't the right time. You start thinking of all of these things -- how everything has its kind of perfect, divine moment."

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Cardi B and Offset turned to priests to help save their failing marriage

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Photo by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue

Cardi B and Offset turned to the church to help save their failing marriage after she caught him cheating on her.

The hip-hop power couple tied the knot in September, 2017. They welcomed their first child, daughter Kulture Kiari Cephus in July, 2018. But by December 2018, the "Bodak Yellow" rapper announced she and Offset had parted ways.

Cardi B and Offset, both 27, reconciled months later, thanks to priests who made house calls.

In a cover story interview for the January 2020 issue of U.S. Vogue magazine, Cardi confessed she tuned to priests to help restore her faith in men.

"Everybody on social media acts like relationships is perfect," she said in her familiar broken English. "Everybody has issues. I believe in forgiveness. I prayed on it. Me and my husband, we prayed on it. We had priests come to us. And we just came to an understanding like, bro, it's really us against the world," she said.

On the cover, Cardi cradles her 16-month-old daughter in her lap. She wears a red polka dot dress. Her legs spread open seductively. She wears her black, straight hair slicked back. Her and Kulture's baby hairs are laid to perfection.

Defending her decision to stand by her husband, Cardi added, "people were so mad at me; a lot of women felt disappointed in me."

She addressed her female fans who may find themselves in a similar situation.

"If you love somebody and you stop being with them, and you're depressed and social media is telling you not to talk to that person because he cheated, you're not really happy on the inside until you have the conversation."

Despite new rumors that Offset cheated on her again, she added: "He has my back for everything, I have his back for everything."

Vogue cover credits: Michael Kors Collection dress. Cartier earring and rings. Tiffany &Co. bracelet. Jimmy Choo shoes. Hair, Tokyo Stylez; makeup, Hannah Murray. Fashion Editor: Tonne Goodman. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, January 2020

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Jay-Z: ‘Therapy Helped Me Understand Myself’

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Jay-Z credits couples therapy with helping him learn how to react to difficult situations and people in his life, including his wife Beyonce Knowles.

In an interview with the New York Times Style Magazine, The "99 Problems" hitmaker revealed he "grew so much from the experience" and it helped him to better understand how people's emotions are connected to their experiences and affect the way they function in every aspect of their lives.

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Off the Market: Tyrese Marries the Submissive Woman He Deserves

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Tyrese Gibson's female fans are pouring salt all over his social media timelines after the singer announced his secret marriage.

Gibson, 38, informed his disappointed fans that he married his beloved, an unidentified submissive woman, in a secret ceremony on Valentine's day.

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‘Marriage Isn’t for You’ Blog Post Goes Viral

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Blogger Seth Adam Smith, a married man, wrote a blog post about overcoming his own selfishness on his way down the aisle with the Love of his life, Kim. Seth describes a conversation he had with his wise dad who told him point blank that marriage is not for men -- though not in those exact words.

His dad's exact words were:

Marriage isn’t for you. You don’t marry to make yourself happy, you marry to make someone else happy. More than that, your marriage isn’t for yourself, you’re marrying for a family. Not just for the in-laws and all of that nonsense, but for your future children. Who do you want to help you raise them? Who do you want to influence them? Marriage isn’t for you. It’s not about you. Marriage is about the person you married.”

Seth's blog post has caught fire all over the Internet, on social media websites and message boards. It's as if Seth's message of self-sacrifice and consideration for others is a new concept in human behavior.

Personally, I think Seth cheated on Kim, and that's what brought about his great metamorphosis. Seth and Kim are high school sweethearts who met when they were 15. It's likely that Kim knows Seth is a dog -- but she married him anyway, because dogs need Love too.

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Celebrity Seed: Will Smith

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Jada Pinkett-Smith, 42, posted this family photo on her Facebook page Saturday. In the photo, a masculine looking Jada posed beside her husband Will, 45, and his firstborn son Trey, 21, from a previous marriage.

In a previous post, Jada hinted at trouble in her marriage. She sought advice from older couples who had been married for 25+ years. Jada concluded that the key to a happy marriage was to give each other space and permission to seek intimacy outside of their stagnant marriage.

In the photo caption, she writes:

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Michelle Obama Covers Vogue Again

Michelle Obama covers Vogue

First Lady Michelle Obama graces the cover of Vogue again. The last time she covered Vogue was in 2009, a year after Barack Obama won his historic first term in the White house. She's wearing a Reed Krakoff dress on the April 2013 cover.

In the in-depth article, Mrs. Obama, and her husband Barack, discuss their lives together and how his presidency has drastically altered the dynamics of their marriage. Their personal revelations sheds light on why they took separate vacations last month.

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White House Confirms Separate Vacations for Barack and Michelle Obama

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Actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith aren't the only famous married couple who take separate vacations. Will recently went on an extended romantic vacation to Brazil with his longtime friend (and rumored lover) Duane Martin.

The White House today confirmed that President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are taking separate vacations as well. This news comes 3 months after Obama was photographed flirting shamelessly with another woman.

The Obamas vacationing separately should not come as a surprise to anyone. The first lady's body language revealed the truth about their loveless marriage years ago.

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