How Strong is Your Marriage? – Relationship Test
As a married couple, you should evaluate your relationship regularly. It helps you to know how strong your relationship with your spouse is and motivates you to fix the things that aren’t working. To evaluate your relationship, you need a good understanding of what a strong relationship is. It’s not…
How to Tell Your Spouse You Need Alone Time – Communication in Marriage
Personal space and privacy are an important part of a healthy marriage. It’s hard to have a healthy marriage when your entire lives revolve around each other and your kids. However, it’s also challenging to tell your spouse you want some alone time without hurting their feelings or getting into…
Don’t have Couple Friends to Do Couple Activities With? Here’s Why
Finding friends as an adult is tough but finding friends when you’re married is even tougher. This is why many married couples have few or no couple friends with whom they can do fun couple activities. However, if you’ve been trying to make couple friends for a while now and…
When Your Spouse Blames You for Your Unhappy Marriage
Some people deal with marital problems by blaming their spouses. They do this because taking responsibility for their unhappy marriage makes them feel inadequate so, they’re just trying to protect themselves and their self esteem. Being married to someone who is constantly blaming you for their unhappiness and the problems…
Communication in Marriage: When Your Spouse is Passive Aggressive
Passive aggressive behavior can make communication in marriage really difficult. When you’re having marital problems, you want your spouse to communicate their feelings and clearly. You want your partner to tell you if they are angry instead of giving you the silent treatment and slamming doors. Signs That Your Spouse…
Should You Tell Your Friends and Family About Your Marital Problems?
It’s natural to want to talk to your friends and family about your marriage – especially when you’re having marital problems. They lend a sympathetic ear and you leave the conversation feeling better. The problem, however, is that a sympathetic ear is not objective. They are your friends and family…
Is Competition in Married Life Healthy?
Some spouses compete with each other all the time. They are constantly trying to one-up each other in their careers, income and parenting, among other things. The thing about marital competition in married life though is that it can turn ugly really quick. Competition and comparison creates division and turns…
Make Married Life More Fulfilling
Many married couples spend most of their married life in a semi-happy state. Their marriages are not bad enough to be considered troubled but also not good enough to be fulfilling. Sadly, between 55 and 65% of all divorces hail from these kinds of low-conflict, unfulfilling marriages. This shows that…
Showing Respect in a Romantic Relationship
Ever heard the saying that “respect is love in plain clothes”? It means that love and respect go hand in hand in a romantic relationship, and it’s impossible to love someone without respecting them. But what exactly does “respect” mean? In marriage, respect simply means valuing your partner and always…
Trust in a Relationship: Is it Ever Okay to Spy on a Spouse?
How do you feel about your husband or wife looking through your phone, emails or credit card statements? Some people believe that it is never okay spy on a spouse and that it is a breach of trust in a relationship. Others believe that it is completely justified especially if…