Articles about marriage counseling, communication skills, and building stronger relationships through couples therapy.
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Marriage Matters: The Anatomy of Peace Pt. 2 A book review blog series to strengthen your marriage relationship! “We can each find our way to a place where we have no need for justification at all. We can find our way to peace- deep, lasting, authentic peace- even when war…
Read More »Staying Close with your Spouse through the Years How small choices and simple moments strengthen your bond. Dating vs. Married Life Recently, I came across a comedic sketch titled Dating vs. Marriage, and it resonated with me in how it depicts a couple’s relationship when they are dating vs. married.…
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A book review blog series to strengthen your marriage relationship! Have you ever wanted your spouse to change? Have you ever felt stuck, arguing about the same old issues over and over again? Did you know there’s something you can do today to fundamentally, qualitatively change the way you communicate…
Read More » A book review blog series to strengthen your marriage relationship!Any relationship between two or more honest people will eventually involve some degree of conflict because no two people see everything alike. But how these conflicts are dealt with can make or break the relationship. Nowhere is this more true than…
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There’s a reason why developing communication skills and strengthening marriage relationships go hand in hand. Marriage involves hard work. And communicating well is a skill that takes repeated practice to master. Here’s why Crucial Conversations is a great marriage resource: If ever there’s a relationship with lots of discussions “where…
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Everyone has the same core needs, but different people have different needs that go filled and unfulfilled. Therefore, every person has different deep and unmet needs. A person’s primary love languages are good indicators of their underlying emotional needs. This article will suggest the emotional needs communicated by each love…
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Empathy is a powerful thing, it can literally change the world and the lives of those who are touched by it. Something that every person on Earth has in common is the desire to be loved, to be seen, and to feel understood. Humans thrive on connection, it's in our nature, we need it to survive.
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Changing mindsets is difficult, and it takes a lot of energy. But your influence can make a big difference.
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Regardless of how long you’ve been together, marriage inventories help you and your partner connect, discuss, change, and love.
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Forgiveness is a key element for peace, joy, and happiness in a relationship. How do you know if you've fully forgiven?
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A midlife crisis is when we get tired of the routine and want to try exploring something different. No partner can actually fulfill every single one of your needs.
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How is it that “opposites attract” yet “birds of a feather flock together”? Are we supposed to be more different or more the same?
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Our expectations determine our level of satisfaction. The creeping zero is an unhealthy perspective people have for expectations.
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How you communicate with your spouse makes a difference in all areas of your life. Here are the 3 things you need for open communication.
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If you've been in a relationship for a long time, you’ll probably find yourself going on the same kind of date. Shake it up and add variety!
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Each of us has a good wolf and a bad wolf inside of us. If you will starve the bad wolf and feed the good wolf, then your relationship will get better and better.
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Sometimes we give up what we want to create peace and do what the other person wants. When we give up things that are important to us, we miss out on peace anyway. The idea going forward is to never settle for any of this.
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Marrying the right person comes down to commitment to the choice and the relationship. However, affairs and abuse should be considered.
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If you want to change yourself or your relationship, you need the right desire, education, encouragement, and practice.
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In order to successfully communicate and open up, we need to feel that the environment is safe. Here are three principles of a safe communication environment.
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You need to communicate love in the way that your spouse feels it. The problem is, people usually try to give out the same love language they want to receive. You may be working really hard to help your spouse feel loved, but if it’s not their love language, it won’t do much!
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With a marriage, you're building a stronger nation: greater wealth, health, and happiness for yourself and others. Studies show all kinds of benefits behind good marriages. Marriage is a valuable commitment! %
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10 Listening Skills. The most important skill in any relationship is to be able to effectively communicate. If you know how to listen, you can improve your relationship with your friends and your family and can create a better marriage than you have ever had.
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When a couple gets married, they have great intentions for the future and for their marriage. They make promises and commitments to each other. A few years or even only months after the ceremony, they might realize that keeping those commitments might be harder than they thought. This is normal. People are not born with the skills to have a good marriage. They have to learn them.
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When two people get married, they bring together distinct backgrounds and rules on the family and what it should look like. Coming together, you and your spouse have different ways that you see marriage and different rules that you learned growing up.
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Each person is unique and each marriage is unique. There are characteristics present in almost every bad marriage: criticism, contempt, defensiveness, stonewalling.
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