Married Life: Are You Are Giving Too Much To Your Marriage?
Making sacrifices is part of married life. It demonstrates commitment to the marriage and shows your partner just how much love and care for them. In fact, research has shown a strong correlation between a couple’s willingness to negotiate and compromise, and marital satisfaction. However, despite all the perks of…
Childhood Experiences Can Affect Married Life and Cause Marital Problems
The reason why some marital problems are so difficult to resolve is because they are rooted in childhood experiences. They are the result of behaviors and thought patterns that were set in motion long before you met your husband or wife, and the only way to resolve these issues is…
Marriage Makes You a Better Person! – Benefits of Marriage
One of the unknown benefits of marriage is that it makes you a better person. This doesn’t mean that it automatically flips a switch within you making you a much kinder, more patient and less selfish person. A happy marriage alone does not make you a better person; but the…
Harnessing the Power of Positive Self-Talk for a Happy Marriage
A few weeks ago we talked about how negative internal dialogue / self-talk can destroy a happy marriage. We explained that the only way to keep negative self-talk from hurting your marriage is to replace it with positive self talk. In this article we offer a few more tips on…
What Makes A Marriage Work? – Happy Marriage Tips
Some people think that love is the most important thing in marriage and as long as they love each other, everything else will work itself out. Sadly, this is not true. Love and physical attraction may put you on the road to a happy marriage but they are by no…
What are your Marriage Goals for the Coming Year?
There is something about a new year that makes people want to make changes to their lives. Married couples suddenly feel the urge to come up with a new set of marriage goals and work on their marriage. Sadly, many of these goals and resolutions are usually forgotten within a…
Marriage is Still the Best Environment for Kids – Divorce and Children
Marriage may be getting a bad rap but one thing remains true: Marriage is the best and most stable environment in which to raise children and ensure their well-being. Numerous studies on divorce and children show that kids who are raised in a healthy and happy marriage are more likely…
Enemies of a Happy Marriage: A Condescending Attitude
A disrespectful, condescending attitude can undermine a happy marriage. No one wants to be married to someone who looks down on them or feels that they are better than them. Also, no one wants to spend the rest of their lives with someone who doesn’t respect their contributions to the…
Your Internal Dialogue May Be Hurting Your Marriage – Marital Problems
Imagine that all your thoughts about your marriage and your spouse were being recorded. Would you want your husband or wife to listen to that recording? Would they be happy with it or would it cause marital problems? We all talk to ourselves! Our self-talk or internal dialogue helps us…
Some Facts About Divorce: Eye-Opening Divorce Statistics
When discord and unhappiness find their way into a marriage, spouses often consider taking what they believe to be the easy way out – divorce. However, divorce statistics show that being divorced is by no means easier than being in an unhappily marriage. Remarriages are more likely to end in…