Tag: marriage tips

What can be done to make marriage therapy worth your time and money? Many couples going into therapy are on the verge of a breakup, and yet some of them (the truly honest ones) believe there’s still hope. In order to make marriage counseling work, it is important to go to a skilled therapist. But then again, if you and your husband are not willing to fix your marriage, not even the best therapist in the world will convince you it’s best to stay together.

Our most rewarding relationships are based on the following 10 elements of healthy relationships. The real work of maintaining our relationships is to keep each of these areas evolving and working for everyone involved. If each participant does their part by showing up in these 10 areas, while avoiding the unhealthy behaviors of drama, using, or manipulation, relationships become healthy, easily maintained and sustainable.

Everyone says they want a happier, healthier, more loving relationship with their spouse, and who could blame them? That idea of happily ever after sounds pretty good, right? Here’s the thing however, too often it’s not always our partner that creates the rifts that allow us to drift apart. Many times, we’re the ones getting in the way. Here are seven things to quit right now if you want to create and sustain a healthy, happy marriage.

Divorce happens. When close friends or family members separate, the divorce can cause a ripple effect of disruption. It's common that you and your spouse might not know what to do, or say, when it comes to interacting with the now-split couple. So here are some guidelines for navigating the murky waters of divorce while nurturing the relationships you care about.

First rule: Divorce etiquette will be tricky in proportion to our emotional reaction. Understandably we feel awkward with this change.

It’s amazing how fast time flies bye, isn’t it?

So maybe you’ve been married for six months or 60 years, and when you think about your partner (or look at your partner) there just isn’t the physical attraction that used to be there. There isn’t the emotional connection there used to be. We have slid apart, and nothing seems optimistic in regards to having the love we had before.

First, let me share this outrageously important information. As we age, relationship shift, mature, grow, or fade away. However, trying to re-create the intense love that we had when we first met our partner may be an absolute waste of time.

One of the biggest reasons for divorce in older marriages is growing apart. And one of the many reasons for growing apart is when one partner starts to evolve and change and the other doesn’t.

This is a tough one. Not gonna lie. I know from my own experience when I started a spiritual awakening in June of 2014. I didn’t plan the change nor could I stop once it started. It can create the oddest dichotomy of beautiful growth with incredible loneliness and confusion for both people in the marriage.

Every year, we make them. Every year, we break some—maybe all of them. Workout more, eat better, spend less money, those are the most common ones. And while self-care and self-improvement are certainly worthwhile goals, there’s one area that many people overlook when it comes to New Year’s resolutions: their marriage.

Resolving to improve certain areas of a marriage is just as important as resolving to be physically healthier or eat better.