Gratitude Makes You a Better Spouse
Once again, it’s time to get together with family, enjoy some good food and be thankful. But before you get caught up in the holiday rush, spend a couple of minutes being grateful for your spouse and your marriage. Here’s why. It keeps you positive Gratitude makes you more positive…
Getting Along WIth Your Partner’s Friends
Not getting along with your partner’s friends can be a source of great conflict in your marriage. This is especially true if your husband or wife has known them for a long time. The last thing you want is for them to feel as if they have to choose between…
Rules of Engagement for a Healthy Marriage
Far fewer couples would have marriage problems they created a healthy marriage code. A code is a set of rules/principles/behaviors that you are determined to follow regardless of your situation or circumstances. Having rules reinforces the structural integrity of the marriage and keeps external forces from tearing your marriage apart….
Enjoy Conversations with your Spouse
Do you enjoy talking to your spouse? Do you just talk about superficial, small-talk stuff like what’s the weather or work, or do you also share your hopes, dreams, feelings and fears? Opening your heart to your spouse in loving conversation requires vulnerability, which is obviously not easy. Here are some tips…
Be Proud of Yourself and Your Marriage
All relationships and marriages go through difficult times. Marriage problems are not an indictment of your abilities or lack thereof and should never be taken as such. Your self-confidence should not depend on how well your marriage is doing. It takes two self-confident people to make a marriage work. In…
Take Care of Yourselves!
Having fun, sharing hobbies and being adventurous together is an essential part of marriage, and you need to be healthy to enjoy it. You may have vowed to stand by each other in sickness and in health but marriage is a lot easier when you both take good care of…
Spend Time with Friends
One of the ways to have a healthy relationship and marriage is to spend time with friends of the same sex. Just because you are married, doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t have friends. Men, whether married or single, need to hang out with other men regularly. The same goes for…
Adopt a Pet Together!
Are you and your partner animal lovers? Pets are great stress relievers, which is why studies show that couples with pets are happier in their relationships. They also have lower blood pressure! There’s something about pets that makes people nicer! It’s a proven fact that humans are more likely to…
Are You Too Open About Your Marriage?
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…
Stop Making Excuses!
Excuses are a way to avoid taking responsibility, justify an offence and blame external factors for mistakes. People often opt for excuses when they feel the real reason is not good enough to elicit sympathy or any other desired reaction from their spouses. Since excuses are usually seen as a…