Ending A Relationship I personally believe that most people don't know when it's time to end a relationship. I personally believe that most marriages that end in divorce probably shouldn't be. About 66% of divorces aren't necessarily...
Communication Universally, communication is one of the top three issues that cause marital distress. We need to figure out how to make communication an advantage in our relationship instead of a killer. We don’t fix...
Creating a Soul Mate “You complete me.” I honestly believe that we get married to complete each other, but I’m not sure about the idea of finding the one person, in all the world, that is the one and only other half...
Sharing Housework Research shows that married men do less work around the house than live-in boyfriends. Generally, it seems that marriage creates a traditionalizing affect on us where we start to live roles as husbands...
Intimacy in Marriage Marriage is all about sharing. When you marry, you make the choice to spend your life with this another person, your spouse. One of the many benefits of marriage is the closeness and connection that you...
What did your mother teach you? Here is a humorous look at lessons from mothers, written by Bert Christensen in “Truth and Humor Collection.”
http://bertc.com/subfour/truth/mothertaughtme.htm
Things My Mother Taught Me:
Balance means being able to go through all that needs to be done in life without focusing only on one part of our life and one part of our existence. We need to have a balance between the time we spend with our family and the time we spend working on our marriage. Once we start to have children, there comes a tendency give all our time and attention to the family and kids. This focus creates an imbalance. If this imbalance remains throughout years and year of marriage,…
Matt Townsend’s Facebook Rules
Make rules together – Sit down with your partner and agree to some rules about how to manage Facebook and about what is appropriate and what isn’t….
A lack of integrity is being displayed in many different public arenas. You can see the breakdown of integrity in politics, sports, business and everyday life. It also has a huge impact in our personal relationships. What is integrity? It is
the possession of firm principles and the ability to live those principles. It is also the state of being whole and complete. When we live our life out of our personal values and principles, not our moods and circumstances, we are living with integrity. Integrity also means taking personal responsibility and accountability. Integrity and living our personal morals and principles allows relationships to flourish; a lack of integrity brings mediocrity in relationships.
To increase personal integrity, …
In a world that is quick to remind us of our faults, and even capitalize on them, we need to find ways to strengthen our self-esteem and to guard carefully the self-esteem of others. We can so easily damage another person’s self-esteem, in this dog-eat-dog world. But instead of tearing others down, we can focus on building them up. In turn, this builds up our own personal feelings of worth.
Self-esteem is…
As I thought about expressing appreciation to others, I realized that appreciation takes time and too often we don’t want to take the time to let someone know that they have had a positive impact on us. But to me, appreciation is nothing more than communication. It is feedback. Research shows that. . .
What would your marriage look like in 2011 if you focused on improving it for the next twelve months? Try these easy suggestions from SimpleMarriage.net to improve your relationship:
Feeling gratitude has the ability to change your outlook on life and lighten your load. Gratitude is a way of thinking, and the way we think determines what we feel and what we do. If you have a habit of ingratitude, you feel and think more negatively than if you have a habit of gratitude. You can learn to have a grateful demeanor and outlook. It is a skill that just takes some intentional thought and practice. Try these tips to foster an attitude of gratitude:
In my business as a relationship coach, I deal a lot with affairs and trying to repair the damage caused by an extra-marital relationship. It is a difficult thing to recover from, and many marriages don’t survive. The best way to overcome the pain and suffering caused from an affair is, first and foremost, to avoid the affair all together. Here are some tips to help affair-proof your relationship….
How do you make the most of family time? Expectations and assumptions about family events add pressure to parents and to the time spent together. Sometimes we have an ideal about what we think families are supposed to be and what they are supposed to do. Or maybe our expectation is about what we have always dreamed of for our family. But is that expectation or assumption adding stress and chaos to our family time … maybe even making less enjoyable for everyone?
My advice is…
