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5 Ways Anger Can Damage a Marriage
Control Issues Uncertainty follows anger everywhere. It erodes trust and creates confusion between partners. This is when lack of control takes hold of your marriage. Remember that an angry man is a man who doesn’t understand or know his wife. Because he fears her unpredictable nature, he decides to keep rigid control to feel secure. However, this feeling of security won’t last and a wrong attitude will backfire. If you control everything, you’ll never be sure of anything. You’ll always ask yourself if your wife stays with you because she wants to, or if she’s just under your control. This will only plant more doubt and suspicion. Living in Hostility…
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Top 5 Ways to Build More Trust in Your Marriage
Every married person wants the marriage a relationship where both parties completely trust each other. Here are five ways to build more trust in your marriage. Display loyalty Loyalty is one of the key values of a successful marriage and something you should try to show as often as you possibly can. Every time you display your loyalty towards your partner, they will find it much easier to trust you completely. Loyalty shows your partner that you think of them in the highest regard, it is a very good show of faith and ultimately, you are expressing just how much they mean to you. Showing loyalty is a great way…
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5 Unpopular Truths About Marriage You Need To Know
Have you ever known a couple that got divorced? Of course you have. And you’ve heard all of the reasons. And what do they usually boil down to? Here’s the first one: we weren’t compatible. This is the go-to in amicable splits. “Oh, we had irreconcilable differences.” It’s the “nice” way that people end marriages without demonizing the other person. Then, on the other hand, you have: he/she was a psycho/crazy/jerk/(insert slur of your choice). When the split isn’t amicable, you hear about what a completely terrible person the other person was… from both sides. Let’s imagine either of these scenarios is true in the majority of cases. Isn’t it…
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This Calculator Tells You EXACTLY How Much Sleep You’ve Lost Since You Had Kids
It takes a village to raise a child—an incredibly sleep-deprived village, that is. And thanks to the Lost Sleep Calculator, parents can know precisely how many hours of zzz’s have been lost, thanks to their little bundles of joy! Hillary’s, a British interior design company, has created an intuitive tool which is as simple to use as assembling a crib— actually, scratch that, that’s a horrible analogy. It’s really easy to use. When you pull up the site, you are greeted by a sickle moon spooning a star and prompted to enter the age of each of your children in years and months, up to ten total. Then you hit the…
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10 Ways To Show Your Husband That You Love Him
Human beings are insecure creatures. Even the most self-assured of us have niggling aspects which we do not like about ourselves. These things are generally quite inconsequential but that is not the case in our minds. In the world that we create and occupy, these flaws in our characters are things that we are scared people will hate. We live in paralyzing fear that if the person we love finds out about them then the relationship is doomed. It is for this reason that it is important to continuously reaffirm your love for one another. Brag about him to your friend while he is around People might say that they…
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Hilariously Funny Marriage Cartoons
These cartoonists show how hilariously funny marriage can be. It almost feels like they have been spying on some of us. Here are some hilarious cartoons that capture married life perfectly. More on next page…
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Longer Marriage Starts with A Cheaper Wedding
Many people have planned out their dream wedding since they were young, hoping for a fancy wedding dress, a top-notch DJ, and a beautiful sprawling vineyard as their location. It looks like an expensive wedding might not be so great for the marriage, at least according to science. Research from Emory University found that having an inexpensive wedding (and engagement ring, for that matter) leads to a higher chance of a long-lasting marriage. Many couples already face financial hardship, and financial strain is notoriously hard on a relationship. A costly marriage only adds to this strain. According to the study, the average wedding today costs around $30,000 (dang!). But couples who spend…
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9 Signs You Have A Marriage That Will Last
Every couple argues. Every couple has dry spells. And every couple hits a rough patch sooner or later. If you’re in the middle of one right now, you might be wondering, “Is my marriage going to make it?” While there’s no guarantee that any relationship will work, of course, here are 9 signs couples therapists say signal to them that a relationship is going to survive. 1. You have fun together. “The skills couples need to keep intimacy alive in a long-term relationship aren’t obvious because people don’t talk about them,” says Tina B. Tessina, PhD, psychotherapist and author of Money, Sex and Kids: Stop Fighting about the Three Things That Can Ruin…
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Top 5 Regrets From the Dying: An Inspirational Article For Us All
Top 5 Regrets From the Dying: An Inspirational Article For Us All My husband, Keith, received an email from a colleague several years ago containing an article. He immediately sent it to me and suggested I give it a read because it touched his soul. From the moment I began reading the words of Australian author and songwriter, Bronnie Ware, I knew I wanted to share them with you. I reached out to Bronnie with hope in my heart and she graciously agreed to allow me to post this article originally written on her site which was the basis for her best-selling book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying:…
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Perfect Marriage Memes for Hump Day
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