Relationships
What Men Look For in a Potential Wife
When a man is seeking a long-term relationship (as opposed to a
short-term liaison), he tends to look beyond a woman’s physical
attributes to a host of less tangible assets, including her
attitude, bearing, and character...
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Working It Out Together
You wish you felt more connected. You wish it was more like it was
in the beginning when you couldn’t get enough of being together. And perhaps you feel overburdened and lonely doing the chores and making
a living and taking care of the kids and . . .
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How to Improve Your Marriage without
Talking About It
If you were to say to the man in your life,
"Honey, we need to talk about our relationship," what do you think would
happen? Undoubtedly you’ve had the conversations we are talking about. She
knows her lines, he knows his, and it always ends up worse than it
started. No wonder the five words a man dreads most are
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Six Tools To
Repair Emotional Damage In Your Marriage
Very few conflicts are 100% the fault of either partner. Instead,
most conflicts are like a dance with both of you making moves to
contribute to the problem. Inability to accept any responsibility is
a sign of defensiveness rather than the openness required for good
communication. .
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Four Ways To Think
Like An Optimist and Improve Your Health
While everyone experiences both setbacks and victories in the normal
course of life, optimists - in contrast to pessimists - have a very
distinct style of explaining things to themselves.
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Your Marital
Bank Account
If you are like me balancing a checkbook is like
trying to run a marathon on your knees. I find it very difficult to
balance what I put in and what I took out. It doesn't always seem
worth the effort to have that dreaded accounting to be exactly
right. I figure as long as I put in more than I take out it will all
work out.
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The Biggest Mistakes Women Make In Relationships
Jan loved her husband and three children, and had a successful job
as a computer programmer. However, her family, her beautiful home,
and expensive car were not making her happy
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Keeping The Fire
Lit In Your Relationship Or Marriage
Here's an interesting question... Did you ever want to do something
and know that it would be good for you but you couldn't seem to find
the energy to actually do it?
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The Biggest
Mistake Men Make In Relationships
What about turning moments that might be thought of as mistakes into
part of your intimate family history
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What about turning moments that might be thought of as mistakes into
part of your intimate family history
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All partnerships, and all relationships for that matter, go through
five predictable stages. Knowing these stages is like having a map
that will help you to accurately assess where you are
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There are a variety of different marriage "groups" out there. As you
discover your group, you will be better able to determine if it's
the group you want to be in for the rest of your life, or if some
adjustments are in order...
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Numerous men have pondered the questions, "Why does my wife say
she’s unhappy? What does she want that I’m not doing?"
Many of the men raising these questions...
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Although we may have the best intentions in building
a strong relationship with our spouse, it's easy to fall into a few
traps that will do more to undermine our relationship...
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n Part One, we looked at what wives really want in a
husband and we identified two things in particular. Wives want a
soul mate who they feel deeply connected to and they want...
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The Art of Conversation is a homework tool I
developed for couples in my therapy practice. It's a structured
exercise in which one person (Person A) gets to talk for 20 minutes
about...
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Imagine the following scenario. Your spouse has given
you an important letter to mail and is counting on you to mail it on
your way to work. But you slip up...you forget all about it until...
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It’s important for you to take care of yourself
before you try to fix your relationship. The old saying ‘You can’t
give away what you don’t have” applies here. Until you are
peaceful...
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The biggest problem long-distance spouses often face is how to keep
emotional intimacy alive when they are separated. If you are in a
long-distance marriage...
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Wendy started counseling with me because Terence, her
husband of 14 years, had just expressed to her that he wanted to end
their relationship. Wendy, terrified of being alone...
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When you’re married, the boundaries between yourself
and your spouse aren’t always clear. For some people, marriage
brings the expectation of spending as much time as possible...
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If you’re like most people, you probably entered into
marriage with a number of unchallenged assumptions in place. These
assumptions may have been about what marriage...
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Most of the calls I receive in my office for marriage
help come from women who are tired of doing all the work in their
marriage. They have asked their husbands, over and...
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As the story goes, a Cherokee elder was sitting with his
grandchildren. He told them, In every life there is a terrible fight
a fight between two wolves. One is evil: he is fear, anger...
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All long-term relationships go through a variety of
phases. There is the initial dating and courtship and infatuation
period. If the relationship continues, it settles into a more...
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Getting married (or beginning an intimate relationship) is, in a
way, like starting a business you’ve always wanted to own or a
university program you’ve always wanted to enter...
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When do seeds of suspicion emerge? When one begins to
think, What's up? Why is he doing that? He's never done that before.
That is so unlike him. He loses 30 pounds, buys a new...
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Because many men do not discuss feelings as easily as
most women do, wives are often shocked when their husband actually
voices his desire to separate or divorce...
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Do you want to keep your intimate relationships in a "Bull Market,"
and out of a "Bear Market"? ...
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Deciding if you should forgive or not may be easier after reviewing
exactly what forgives is...and what it is not....
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