Grief can bring couples closer or leave them feeling alone together, often because each person grieves differently. Here’s how to understand your differences, support each other, and know when to get help.
If your husband won’t go to the doctor, nagging rarely works. Here’s why many people avoid medical care, how to encourage your spouse without a power struggle, and which symptoms mean you shouldn’t wait.
Living with an anxious spouse means loving someone whose mind is often ahead of the moment: scanning for what could go wrong, needing reassurance, avoiding things, or reacting strongly to small stressors. You can help most by being steady and kind, learning what anxiety is (and isn’t), encouraging professional support rather than trying to fix…
Caring for a sick spouse can deepen a marriage and also strain it to the limit. Many caregiving spouses feel love, grief, exhaustion, guilt, resentment and loneliness, sometimes all in a day. The most important things you can do are to share the burden, ask for and accept help, protect your own health, keep communicating…
ADHD can strain a marriage when its symptoms, such as forgetfulness, distractibility, impulsivity, disorganization and difficulty with time, are misread as not caring. A spouse may feel ignored, overburdened or like a parent, while the partner with ADHD may feel criticized and ashamed. The good news is that couples who understand ADHD, get appropriate treatment…
A sleep divorce means a married couple sleeps in separate beds or bedrooms, usually to get better rest. It doesn’t mean the marriage is ending. For many couples, snoring, different schedules, restless sleep or a baby make sharing a bed a source of exhaustion and resentment, and sleeping apart actually helps the relationship. For others,…
Perimenopause can affect a marriage because the hormonal changes that come in the years before menopause can bring mood swings, poor sleep, hot flashes, lower desire and irritability, often when work, kids and aging parents are already demanding. Many couples don’t realize what’s happening, so the symptoms get read as the relationship going wrong. Understanding…
Erectile dysfunction is a consistent difficulty getting to and maintaining a sufficient erection. The causes of erectile dysfunction are numerous. It could be constant stress, depression, side effects from medications, or illnesses that affect blood flow, nerves or hormones. Here are five things you can do to help relieve you of erectile dysfunction. Medications…
While there are still a lot of unknowns about sleep, your body does need it It may surprise you that scientists know very little about sleep. For example, there is still no agreement as to why exactly humans need sleep. Science also has very little explanation about dreams and what happens in your brain while…
Synchronization of the schedule of adults with their newborn baby’s sleep cycles is one of the biggest issues for new parents. When you know more about sleep and what happens during sleep, you will have an easier time both putting your baby to sleep and understanding what is happening with your baby. From this article,…