Romance Secret #9: True Love Serves

[1] Everybody Loves Raymond, Season 7, Episode 22, “Baggage.”

[2] Pew Research Center, “Modern Marriage,” July 18, 2007, http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2007/07/18/modern-marriage/.

[3] Ibid.

[4] Virginia Rutler, “Love and Lust,” Psychology Today, July 1, 2014, https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201406/love-lust.

[5] Suzanne M. Bianchi, “Family Change and Time Allocation in American Families,” Focus on Workplace Flexibility, published at a conference in Washington D. C., Georgetown Law, Workplace Flexibility 2010, November 29-30, 2010, Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, http://workplaceflexibility.org/images/uploads/program_papers/bianchi_-_family_change_and_time_allocation_in_american_families.pdf.

[6] Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Employment Characteristics of Families Survey,” news release, April 23, 2015, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/famee.nr0.htm.

[7] Jim Thornton, Chore Wars (Newburyport, MA: Conari Press, 1997), 71.

[8] Adapted from Greg Smalley, “Sharing the Load,” ThrivingFamily.com, August/September 2014, http://www.thrivingfamily.com/Family/Life/For%20Him/2014/chores-and-your-marriage.aspx.

[9] Jill Leviticus, “Roly Poly Bug Facts,” Animals by Demand Media, accessed October 13, 2015, http://animals.mom.me/roly-poly-bug-6984.html.

[10] Francis Chan and Lisa Chan, You and Me Forever: Marriage in Light of Eternity (San Francisco: Claire Love Publishing, 2015), 68.

[11] George Eliot, Middlemarch (London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1907) 464.