The world is full of marriage advice and marriage tips. You’ll find them in books, on TV and even in blogs like this one. While we try to stick with advice from trusted experts in our posts, there are plenty of marriage tips that actually hurt your marriage, put more stress on your relationship or [...]
5 Communication Rules That Can Save Your Marriage
Every relationship in our lives has communication as its foundation. In our relationships with our bosses, our relationships with our kids and in our marriages, communication is essential. When it breaks down, the relationship is in serious jeopardy. Marriage therapists Drs. Charles and Elizabeth Schmitz offer 5 rules that can save your marriage from failure [...]
Men and Women Have Different Ways of Working on a Marriage
We all know that men and women approach many things in a different manner. We handle stress differently, prioritize our time differently and often have a different handle on raising our children. Now a new article explains that men and women have different ways of working on a marriage. This can be important to understand [...]
6 Signs That Your Marriage Is Okay
When you’re having problems in your marriage, as all of us do from time to time, it can be easy to lose your perspective. When one or two things are going badly, it’s hard to recognize the things that are going well. If you don’t force yourself to focus on them, you can start to [...]
How to Fight Fair in Your Marriage
Every marriage has its fights. All couples fight, including the happiest couple you know. The key is learning to fight fair in marriage, with the person that you have committed to loving most. Author Bruce Feiler has posted an article this week on HUffingtonPost.com, called “Lessons in Diplomacy.” he wanted to learn how to fight [...]
3 Ways to Reduce Stress in Your Marriage
We all, as individuals, have a great deal of stress in our daily lives. One of the hardest things about marriage is that both of you have your own stresses, and then you the stress you face as a couple. This relentless stress can destroy your marriage if it goes unchecked. The editors at HuffingtonPost.com [...]
Why Do Affairs Happen?
Every marriage is unique and so are its problems and circumstances, just as the individuals in the marriage are unique. One of the first questions a wronged (or even the cheating) spouse asks when infidelity occurs is “Why did the affair happen?” A new article by Tammy Nelson, PhD, a marriage and relationship therapist has [...]
Research Says You Need Denial to Make Your Marriage Work
We’ve all heard the joke that a little denial never hurt anybody, but most of us don’t really believe that. However, according to an article on LiveScience.com and reposted to HuffingtonPost.com this week, new research shows that in order to make your marriage work, you really do have to have a little bit of denial. [...]
4 Signs of a Marriage in Trouble
Many times, we know there is a problem (or problems) in our marriage. We often know that our marriage is in trouble. But there are other times when serious trouble takes us by surprise, often because we didn’t recognize the signs. Many of those problems can be traced back to communication issues. “Four Signs Your [...]
New Survey Finds 5 Marriage Mistakes That Can Cause Divorce
In a new article for YourTango.com, which has been reposted on Huffington Post, author Kim Olver writes about the research she did while writing her book, “Happy Couples.” Part of her research was to poll 100 couples and ask them what marriage mistakes would be deal breakers for them and cause their marriage to end [...]
