Category: Marriage
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Can You Save Your Marriage After One of You Cheats? (Pt 4)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us for this series on how to save your marriage after one spouse has an affair. If you’re just finding this discussion now, we recommend you spend a few minutes getting caught up on the parts addressing trust and transparency. Moving on, we’re going to look at another critical…
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Can You Save Your Marriage After One of You Cheats? (Pt 3)
Welcome back. We’ve been talking about how to salvage a marriage after one spouse cheats. Some couple want to work through the fallout and save their marriages. Others are too hurt and angry to see the relationship as something they could salvage. Both are entirely valid responses to an infidelity, and only you can…
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Can You Save Your Marriage After One of You Cheats? (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us for this ongoing discussion on how to salvage your marriage after one spouse is unfaithful. In our previous article we talked about being honest with yourself about why you wanted to save your marriage. (Deciding your marriage is worth saving, and that you want to save it…
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Can You Save Your Marriage After One of You Cheats? (Pt 1)
One of the hardest things a married couple can do is rebuild their relationship after one of them cheated. The time, energy, dedication, and willpower involved is enormous, and let’s be honest, most couples simply don’t recover. However, if you and your spouse are hoping to save your marriage, know that there’s hope. You…
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Luggage or Baggage? What Have You “Packed” For Your Marriage? (Part 2)
Welcome back. We’ve been talking about the differences between luggage and baggage, as metaphors for what you bring into your marriage. Refresher course: luggage would be good listening skills, kindness, patience and respect, while ‘baggage’ is a rotten temper, meanness, being overly critical, and nagging. As we pointed out in the previous article,…
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Luggage or Baggage? What Have You “Packed” For Your Marriage? (Part 1)
Some people will tell you that the difference between luggage and baggage is a cultural one – the British take luggage on their holidays, while Americans on vacation collect their bags at the baggage claim. And they’d be right. But for this article we’re addressing a more metaphorical type of carry-on – the kind…
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Are You Doing The Right Thing For Your Kids by Staying Unhappily Married? (Part 2)
Thanks for joining us again for this discussion on whether it’s better to stay married, even if you’re unhappy, for your kid’s benefit. As we noted in the previous article, studies have shown that kids who grow up in stable and loving two parent homes tend to fare better in life than kids from…
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Are You Doing The Right Thing For Your Kids by Staying Unhappily Married? (Part 1)
So you and your spouse fight all the time. You can’t seem to have more than a three minute conversation before it dissolves into an argument. In fact, you seem to trigger each other all the time. And now you don’t even want to spent time together anymore. And who could blame you? If every…
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In Sickness And in Health…Or Maybe Not….
When a couple plans their wedding, one of the things they address (if they’re smart!) is their prenup. They sit down and discuss how they will deal with a divorce, should that ever come up, and how they will divide their assets. But ask the average couple in love why they think their marriage…
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Fight The Good Fight. Because a Bad Fight Can Ruin Your Marriage! (Part Two)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again. As we explained in the previous article, fighting is a relatively normal part of life for couples. The catch isn’t learning how not to fight, it’s learning how to fight in a way that strengthens your relationship and resolves problems. So picking up where we left…