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There's an additional cost to Ford to have additional spouses on the policy. If the spouse can get other coverage, our employee needs to help share some of those additional costs.

Marcey Evans

If you are living at the margin, economically or in terms of age or being sicker, you are more vulnerable to your spouse being sick. If I am richer or younger, it is not as big a shock.

Dr. Nicholas Christakis

You only seem to hear about it when it erupts and leaves a dead child or spouse.

David Barber

There are many reasons that someone may have been unable to participate in the directory assistance infrastructure. One scenario could be the consumer may have a VoIP line or cell phone and their carrier does not provide their listing data to the listing data base providers, or their phone service is under a spouse or roommate's name.

Jeff Pulver

Above all of this, I have the mental thing going on in my head that my spouse is endangering his life and that he may not come home to us.

Sherri Fassbender

People need to make sure that they ask questions, watch what they are doing and not go into it blindly. They just need to find something they enjoy doing. They can also get their spouse, a friend or family involved. It will help them stay connected with their goals and the community.

Brian Eck

When a spouse is hospitalized, the partner's risk of death increases significantly and remains elevated for up to two years.

Dr. Nicholas Christakis

It has always been a mixed bag, being the spouse of a political figure. Just as it is true that you and your family life come second, you also get great privilege and access to power, and power just on your own. They've known that, and we've known that, and that's a reason they haven't complained.

Carl Sferrazza Anthony

Often the spouse is the early warning system that encourages the veteran to come in.

Jeffrey Matloff

You know what I find interesting? If you lose a spouse, you're called a widow, or a widower. If you're a child and you lose your parents, then you're an orphan. But what's the word to describe a parent who loses a child? I guess that's just too f**king awful to even have a name.

Alan Ball

In a more typical case...you'll save $3,000 to $4,000 per spouse. So for the family, that's quite a bit of money.

Sharyn Sooho

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Cynthia Nelms

You let your spouse fly. Don't try to hold them down. Let them be who they are.

Neldon Wride

They talk to them about a wide range of things from family support groups to deployments and how to support their spouse.

Bob Hergert

It's cheating if your spouse considers it cheating. It's hard to give a blanket definition of cheating, because it's based on the morals and beliefs of the marriage. But what matters is: does your spouse consider it cheating?

Jenn Berman

You can save my life by taking better care of my spouse as she dies. People care about the burden of their death on their loved ones. When I'm sick I want to know the impact of my health on the health of my loved ones.

Dr. Nicholas Christakis

Yeah, I know, but if you think your spouse is cheating on you, you need to be able to find our services.

Paul Dank

The definition of 'emergency' expands over time. Eventually letting your spouse know you'll be late and you'll pick up dinner on the way qualifies.

Jeffrey Nelson

Over the first 30 days it can be almost as bad for you to have a sick spouse as a dead spouse.

Dr. Nicholas Christakis

You can write your spouse a letter saying those things.

Kathleen Murray

The parent just needs to provide evidence that their spouse is deployed. We do not ask for their financial status.

Patricia Johnson

It's not really enough money to do anything with. The reason they do it, they find it interesting. It's definitely the intrigue, not the money. I've had some say it's provided the most fascinating dinner conversation they've had with their spouse in years.

Chris Bagby

I think most of the patients know it's coming. I know I did. It usually hits the spouse or family the hardest.

George Hubbard

Typically, the snorer is the one who gets the help. But, we don't know what the impact is on the spouse.

Dr. Rosalind Cartwright

If you are told that your spouse or minor child cannot be here for the next six or seven years because of the backlog, that's an incentive for them to get here illegally.

Jeanne Butterfield

Try and shock the unresponsive spouse. A financial planner can be helpful because he or she's an objective third party who can point out you're not going to make it at this [savings] rate.

Chris Cordaro

Many of our clients receiving a buyout package have broken down and cried in our office, either from anger or joy. Emotionally, people need someone to turn to so they can get everything out, if not a financial planner, then their spouse or friends.

Bryan Lee

It's common that one spouse is the financial enabler.

Chris Cordaro

Even the most secure people in a strong marriage probably don't want a spouse to be establishing a new friendship, especially with someone who's very attractive.

Michael Monsour

They did offer the raise with one hand and then withdrew it with the other hand. Under their health care proposal, if you or your spouse or kid ended up having to go to the hospital for five days, you'd spend your whole raise.

Bob Bedard

That is significant for a number of reasons. If you add and additional driver, it costs you more money generally. If you simply add a spouse, it doesn't.

Alphonso David

Quite often one person in the relationship has been predominantly the money manager. When he or she dies, the process can be overwhelming to the remaining spouse. We help them go through their assets, show them where things are located and how they are signed and then help with updating documents and making money decisions for the future.

Cheri Butcher

It is not the end of the world. Don't try to hide it from the kids or the spouse.

George Pierce

Some of (my former co-workers) lost their houses and their cars. Some were in a lot worse financial shape than I was. Fortunately, I had help from my family and my spouse and her family, so I was able to manage.

Tim Geagley

They have a big attraction -- there are no strings attached, and if doesn't work out, you go pick out another office 'spouse,' and no divorce is necessary.

Mark Oldman

People forget to recognize and remember the wives. So that's what my goal is for this song: to support the spouse and everything she goes through as well. We just wanted to honor them and to recognize them.

April Taylor

I know there has been a (housing) dilemma in Phoenix, ... But the reality is most people have a spouse who works. . . . Because of the two-income family, people who are police officers can easily afford a home.

Tony Lopez

There are so many social problems that impact students today. There could be a divorce or a death where a parent is separated from the other spouse. Sometimes a family can move too many times.

Dennis Kirk

If a client's soon-to-be ex-spouse wants to move on with his life.

Raoul Felder

Try to avoid walking alone. If you want to exercise, have a friend or your spouse walk with you.

Barry Tate

This needs to be applied for annually because there are instances where status changes ? death of spouse, for instance.

Maura Kownacki

I don't mean to be insensitive, but at some point you have to draw the line or the law becomes meaningless. Why doesn't (Mexico) consider granting citizenship to the spouse to go there? Why is it always our obligation?

Daniel Stein

The timing of such interventions might be matched to the riskiest times for caregivers, for example, just after the hospitalization of the spouse.

Dr. Nicholas Christakis

I think there's a strong possibility that she's not alive. If a woman leaves a spouse because of personal issues that's one thing. But to leave every personal belonging, your car, a child and your only source of income for prescriptions ... She left an awful lot just to leave and start over.

Brenda Smith

Each (spouse) has done a fairly good job of making good investment choices. However, what we see is a lack of understanding of how those mutual funds work together.

Brian Shea

I can learn the person's social security number, occupation, the names and ages of the person's spouse and children, names of the person's names, the value of the person's home and property taxes paid on that home.

Robert Pitofsky

Sometimes people enter these later-life marriages with expectations of traveling and doing fun things together and one spouse becomes ill and the other becomes the caretaker.

Brent Gibson

We have a high number of elder people. If you look at factors that contribute to suicide, you have isolation and depression. With older people, there tends to be more isolation and depression. They have often lost a spouse or family members.

Jan Eustis

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

Benjamin Spock

If you have a green light from your spouse and kids, life is going to be much easier.

Dory Hollander

I can generally tell what a guy is saying at home from what his spouse says after a glass of wine or three.

Patrick Byrne

If it's a shared computer, then the spouse has equal rights to get on it and share what's on it.

David Banisar

Unless the spouse takes the very same drugs, they may end up being on two separate plans because one plan would work better for one, and another would work better for the other.

Susan Ferriola

We realize peace of mind for many couples comes from knowing a spouse will be taken care of financially. Nationwide L-Inc guarantees a surviving spouse will receive a lifetime income stream.

Mark Phelan

It's an issue of not wanting to punish someone who is a member of your family, even if that closeness includes abuse. A lot of wives do not report spouse abuse. Lots of families do not report sex abuse because it's still Dad.

Don Strassberg

Consumers are smart enough to know that they don't 'drive' health care when it comes to treating a premature baby, cancer in a spouse or a child's broken bones.

Bill Vaughan

I don't care how you vote. Just make sure that when you make that vote, you're doing so from an informed position, not just an emotional gut reaction or what your spouse tells you.

Paula Krane

HOURI, n. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul. By that good lady the Houris are said to be held in deficient esteem.

Ambrose Bierce

These policies help protect dependent children and the estate [by paying estate taxes] if the remaining spouse dies.

David Woods

Even if your spouse cheated on you, own up to any lack of connection on your part that may have contributed to his or her making such a bad move. What you want to convey is not that you were the poor victim of a bad mate but that you learned from your experience.

Tina B. Tessina

It doesn't take much. One spouse loses a job or is unemployed for even a little while.

Scott Brown

A spouse with cancer is generally not as burdensome for a partner as more disabling conditions such as dementia, where you combine both the stress of caring for the spouse and waning social support from your partner.

Dr. Nicholas Christakis

When it comes to relationships, there are so many ways to lose your spouse or to lose your partner. Finances, children and sex are the three trigger points.

Miriam R. Davis

It's definitely a case by case thing. For the most part, there's nothing wrong with commingling, as long as spouses doing the commingling realize they are not going to get back the assets they came into the marriage with. On the other hand, it can add tension to the marriage if one spouse keeps assets separate.

Cicily Maton

We have so many different areas to choose from. Whether it's teaching the 5- to 9-year-olds how to make their first pizza or a men's only evening and teaching them how to make a meal for their spouse or a couples wine tasting and dancing competition. The age range is 5 to 95, and if it's feasible, we will do it.

Deb Williams

The model never varies. It never has an ego problem; it never has a fight with its spouse; it never wants to prove that it's right. The model is never hung-over after a night of partying -- it just does the same thing, time and time again. Very boring, very profitable.

James O'shaughnessy

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

Ellen Goodman