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How the Conflicts That Tear You Apart Can Also Hold You Together
View image | gettyimages.com When you understand the role that arguments play in your relationship, you can better understand yourselves and each other. ____ Last week we learned how Chris and...
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To Fix Your Relationship, You May Need to Break It
Justice Schanfarber has a different take on the role conflict plays in relationships. Instead of fearing it, he believes we need it. ____ Over the past two weeks we’ve looked at how two couples, Chris...
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Four Ways We Dodged Divorce
View image | gettyimages.com Adam Davis and his wife brought their marriage from the brink. Here’s how. ____ Our relationship was tough from the beginning. We didn’t have some deep-rooted issue. Our...
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10 Simple Things that Will Increase Your Intimacy
Embed from Getty Images Connecting in the bedroom starts with everything you do outside of it. ____ I didn’t know it at the time but my husband was being “strategic” and not cheap when he proposed to...
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She Thinks About Leaving Me. It’s Like a Punch in the Gut
“I want to change but have no clue about where to start. The house is quiet these days and I suspect she is waiting for me to move first.” Hey, Heather I’m writing this with my head hung down. Last...
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I Choose Monogamy and The Freedom is Exhilarating
With fewer options, I have more choices for who and how I want to be in my one relationship. ____ Having just been married, I’m struck by the feelings I have noticed coming up for me recently. First...
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How Can I Get Her to See How Hard I am Working?
Embed from Getty Images In a battle between your job and your marriage, this is how you find peace. ____ Heather, I don’t even know where to begin but I know I could use some help here. My wife and I...
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How to Let Go When It’s Unhappily Ever After
Embed from Getty Images It’s a bad relationship but knowing that doesn’t make it any easier to leave. ____ If life ran like a storybook, the person we fall in love would not be the person who broke...
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How to Be Successful Without Losing Your Relationship
My husband and I started dating at a time when I was incredibly career driven. I was working for a residential treatment program and my only focus was climbing the ladder so I could be a program...
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10 Quotes About Marriage That Absolutely Get it Right
A successful marriage requires falling in love several times, always with the same person. -Unknown ____ Marriage is not a noun. It’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the...
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The Day My Marriage Got Good
Embed from Getty Images — By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. – Socrates I got married in a blizzard, in February, some...
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6 Lessons I Learned From My Darkest Days of Marriage and Divorce
Embed from Getty Images — In December, it will mark the three-year anniversary since my initial separation and more than a year and a half since my divorce was made official. In that time, my life has...
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Silence is Violence
Embed from Getty Images John Pavlovitz explains how the silent treatment adds worse insult than injury to a person. It adds invisibility. ____ Over the last few months as I’ve talked with people...
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Let’s Value Men’s Friendships as Much as Their Romantic Relationships
Embed from Getty Images — If we as men don’t decide how we want our friendships to look like, someone else will do it for us. In December 2015, I shared a concern with one of my friends, asking, “Why...
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50 Is Just a Number
I have been struggling with the whole idea of turning 50. I honestly don’t know why. 50 is just a number. I expect to wake up tomorrow feeling no different then today. I certainly don’t feel 50 or...
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Little Ways to Say I Love You Without Saying the Words
— Tiffany here. Who would have thought three little words could be so huge? You feel it in your heart, but actually saying, “I love you” for the first time can be a tricky situation, and it’s often...
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A Letter to a Lover, a Letter to a Special Friend
Dear Lover, Tomorrow is our wedding anniversary. I feel like I have known you forever, though it has hardly been a decade. A journey often overlooked, interrupted by life’s constant demands. Like a...
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Save Your Marriage
With divorce rates consistently above 50%, this topic gets LOTS of attention! The problem with “Googling” the topic of “How to Save Your Marriage” is that you will wind up in places that don’t even...
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He Wants a Wife and Baby in 2 Years Because Life Is Amazon Prime
“What are you looking for?” I paused for a moment, taken aback by the directness of the question. After all, this was our first ever phone call, its primary purpose to appease our respective mothers....
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What Does Real Partnership Look Like In Marriage?
As I inched closer to my wedding day, I started asking myself some much-needed questions about partnership. After all, marriage is one of the strongest forms of partnership you can embark on in this...
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