The Real Reason Why Your Partner Complains About Your Hobby
There is nothing wrong with having individual interests and hobbies when you are married. It not only allows you to maintain your individuality but also keeps boredom at bay. The trouble begins when hobbies turn into obsessions. When you start spending more time on your hobbies than you spend with…
Couples That Play Together
The inner child is an often forgotten fun and creative part of our personalities that enables us to have spontaneous fun, free from guilt and anxiety. Unfortunately, as we get older, the stress of life makes it harder for use to stay young at heart. We become too grown up…
3 Ways to Strengthen Your Bond With Your Partner
Marriage romance is necessary for a happy relationship. It triggers the release of oxytocin, otherwise known as the love hormone, in the brain, which promotes bonding between partners. This means that it is difficult to feel hopelessly in love with your spouse without romantic gestures. In fact, all couples should…
Cuddling is a Love Language
When romance in marriage begins to die down, cuddling is one of the first things to go. Think back to the last time you cuddled with your partner? How long ago was it? Many couples cannot get enough of cuddle time when they are dating or in courtship. However when…
Creative Ways to Say “I Love You”
When a couple is happily married, “I love yous” abound. In fact, many people use the phrase very casually such as at the end of phone conversations or when separating which causes the “L-word” to lose its intimacy. Thankfully, there are many creative ways to say I love you. In…
Remaining Compatible as you Change
Compatibility is highly overrated and misunderstood. Many people believe that compatibility is what determines whether or not a couple will have a happy marriage. They believe that it is something that you have and not something that you can work towards. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Compatibility…
Stop the Blame Game in its Tracks
Has your husband or wife ever denied saying something that you vividly remember him or her saying? Well, it turns out that spouses often have different memories of the same event. Research shows that sometimes spouses can’t even agree on events that happened in the last 24 hours, like whether…
Don’t Share Too Much with Friends and Family
Any confidential information that is shared between spouses must be guarded like a treasure. Sharing this information with a third party, including friends and family, is dishonorable, and there are many ways in which it can go terribly wrong. Here are some of the things that could happen. Losing control…
Can Your Spouse Count on You?
We all want a good wife or husband that we can count on. Someone who is there for us when we need them and makes us feel secure in the relationship. This is not to say that a good husband or wife never disappoints their significant other; that’s impossible. It…
Rebulding Your Marriage After An Affair
Adultery breaks the heart of the innocent partner and damages the marriage. Infidelity fractures trust. Adultery, whether emotional or physical, is ugly. Anger, bitterness and resentment lead to heated words and bitter clashes. This situation spirals couples toward divorce or separation. But it does not have to if the husband…