“Was he acting weird?” “She seemed bored.” “It used to be wonderful. What happened?” People ask themselves questions like these all of the time when they’re think something is “off” in their love relationship or marriage.
Getting through some off-times brings couple closer together. Certainly, when the addition of kids is considered, spending valuable times together can be stressful again. Many changes happen in a woman's body during and after pregnancy. Men are frequently not concerned with some of these changes, and this oftentimes brings the words flying and the tears flowing. Moreover, finances can be a pretty strained as well. Marriage counsellors or therapists, family solicitors, relatives, and friends sure have a difficult job, but maybe all you need is a homemade repair.
Take a hint from these couples. They turned to a simple product or device to help them solve an exasperating problem — and drew closer as a result.
Is your relationship on the rocks because of your spouse's anger? Do you fear that all of this fighting is going to destroy your marriage? If so, help is on the way.
How long should you wait in a new relationship to share a fantasy with your lover? According to a new Durex survey, men say they want to share fantasies as soon as possible - within the first three months of a relationship. The women surveyed chose to wait a little longer to share their fantasy, reporting 6 months to a year of a relationship is time enough to build the trust to start having the intimate conversation about fantasies.
How do you usually react when someone is blaming you, criticizing or judging you, being irritated with you, yelling at you, withdrawing from you, or resisting you? There are two forms of reaction from the ego wounded self: overt and covert. Both forms come from wanting to control.
If you want a divorce-proof marriage that will stand the test of time and last forever, you need to determine if your values, beliefs and ideals are in alignment as a couple.
One of the questions we are often asked is, "Can arguing be healthy for a marriage?" The simple answer is, "Yes!" When a husband and wife argue, they are engaging in a perfectly normal and expected part of what it means to be married. In fact, disagreement between two people in love is actually healthy for their relationship. The question that couples should be asking is, "How do we argue effectively and fairly?"
So many couples are now separated part- or full-time because of military deployment and/or work travel and schedules, I get a lot of questions about faithfulness. Your marriage vows may have said, “'til death do us part” but no one said anything about what happens when a military career or traveling job makes it necessary for you to part, and you want to maintain the closeness in your relationship.
The damage is done. The debt is real. So what can you do as a couple when your significant other has kept his/her financial debt a secret from you?
In the early years of my dating life, I thought I knew exactly what I wanted, and I was absolutely sure I was going to get it: a charming, great looking, well-built guy that dressed well, made plenty of money and drove me around to nice places in a nice car.
