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10 Marriage Lies You Need To Stop Believing
Marriage can be fragile at times, especially at the beginning stages of your new life together. Learning to navigate through the rough patches can seem like a never-ending maze with too many dead ends. Life can also seem like this when you’ve been married for a long time – even if it’s only been a few years. You start to question whether you married the right person or if your marriage is worth all the hardship. You start to believe the lies that society tells about marriage and pretty soon you’re ready to sign the divorce papers. Before you get to this point, it’s important to know what these lies…
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18 Money Management Tips For Married Couples
“For better or for worse… For richer or for poorer.” This is what most of us promise to our spouse when we pledge ourselves in marriage. But unfortunately, many couples today can’t seem to survive either richer or poorer due to poor money management skills. Some couples stick with their own individual way of managing money, which may or may not mesh with their spouse’s. Others may take the responsibility all on their own shoulders or shove it onto their spouse instead. Some spouses even lie, cheat, and overspend, and cause all trust within the relationship to be a distant memory. As a newly married couple, how can you prevent these…
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Maybe the Best Marriage Therapy Session Ever
Here’s a funny story for ya. After 30 years of marriage, a husband and wife came for counseling. When asked what the problem was, the wife went into a tirade listing every problem they had ever had in the years they had been married. On and on and on: neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable – an entire laundry list of unmet needs she had endured. Finally, after allowing this for a sufficient length of time, the therapist got up, walked around the desk, and after asking the wife to stand, he embraced and kissed her long and passionately as her husband watched – with a…
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8 Empowering Marriage Goals To Work On Together
A relationship is the sum of its parts and that means you can and should take charge over what you can control, i.e. the role that you play within the relationship. I know it is super frustrating at times when you feel like you are putting in more effort than your partner but remember: It’s always better to lead by example. Once you have resolved anything that your spouse can level blame at you for, all that is left is the stuff they need to work on and this then becomes much more evident. Once you have done the work on yourself, you can better support your spouse in achieving anything they…
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15 Signs You Married The Best Husband Ever
Many marriages end because of ingratitude. As time goes by, couples forget to appreciate the little things in life. But being grateful every day helps sweethearts stay happily married. Noticing and appreciating the things your husband does for you helps you see what really matters, rather than focusing on his flaws (which every man has). Your spouse is the most important person in your life, so do your marriage a favor and praise him for all these things he does for you: 1. He trusts you He doesn’t doubt your actions. 2. He is loyal to you He has nothing to hide. You have access to everything in…
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The True Essence Of Parenting
Parenting, a most substantial responsibility or most probably a priority which precedes all our other tasks penned down on a to-do-list. Once an infant miracle has taken place in someone’s life, parents eventually get enlightened of the future responsibilities to be undertaken in the wake of parenting. In the process of being a parent, their instincts somehow get awakened & they become vigilant of their upcoming expeditions. Whether it is choosing a unique name from the list of thousands, or designing a room filled with stuffed toys or walls beautified with cartoons and animated wallpapers for a soon to arrive baby, there is always an extreme rush flowing down their…
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How Couples Tend To Behave During Fights
There are three main types of fights in marriages. They are attack-attack, attack-defend and silent-silent. Start paying attention to what kinds of fights you have in your marriage. Notice what and how your spouse does. If your spouse tends to play defense, you may be thinking that it’s because he or she is guilty. You are tempted to keep attacking. What you need to understand is that there are a lot of good reasons for a defensive response. A defensive person may appear rude and not caring during an argument, but in reality he or she is going through a lot. If you are the partner that doesn’t tend to…
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10 Texts to Keep Your Partner Daydreaming
It is undeniable that we live in the age of information and technology. Phone calls have replaced face-to-face conversations and texts have replaced love letters. Some may be mourning the by-gone days of receiving delicately scented letters from their darling, which are filled with ardent declarations of love and devotion. All is not lost though. Instant messaging has a magic of its own. Firstly, it is instantaneous and secondly, you can send pictures…wink, wink. Unsolicited pictures of someone’s junk is not necessarily what is meant here. But rather, one is able to build tension and mood via texts. The key here is to be creative. There is no need to…
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How Working Out Together is Great for Your Marriage
There are a lot of different ways to say that I love you. The longer you are married the more varied you have to be in finding creative ways to not only tell your spouse how you feel, but also show them. Finding unique ways to spend time together is a great way to tell your spouse how much you still love them. Of course, the long work week followed by long and tiring weekends that are filled with household chores and family tasks means that it’s harder and harder to find ways to spend time with each other to keep that flame alive in your marriage. Finding something that’s…
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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…
