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  • Time Apart From Your Spouse Can Help You Avoid Divorce! (Part 1)

    Balance is critical. Just like in cooking, where the right amount of acid and salt compliments the sweetness in a dish (or ruins it if you add too much or too little!), a couple must balance their “togetherness” and their “separateness” in order to achieve a healthy relationship. And yet so many couples seem to…

  • Threats of Divorce During Fights: Empty Threat or Serious Warning?

      Everybody argues. There is no such thing as a perfect marriage, or a relationship without problems, but the way you handle your disagreements makes a big difference. And dropping the “D-bomb” during a fight can be very detrimental to your relationship. Why? Because threatening divorce when you don’t mean it can have a devastating…

  • Can You Save Your Marriage After One of You Cheats? (Pt 5)

      So you and your spouse are working it out. You’ve committed to being transparent in all of your dealings, honest about everything, and never to throw the past in each others faces during an argument. That’s awesome – it’s a great start! But there’s still more we need to cover if you’re hoping to…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…