Marriage takes two, but for a marriage to succeed, both spouses need to practice emotional self-care. Here’s how to start.
Healthy Marriage Traits
Busyness, parenting and mundane tasks can grow over the path to togetherness. But it’s never too late to reclaim the trail to intimacy.
Married individuals … experience less stress and emotional pathology than their unmarried counterparts.
To determine marriage health, couples need to monitor their relational fitness to catch problems they might miss. Here are some questions to help you.
The unhealthy attitudes I ‘inherited’ from family hurt my marriage. I learned how to conquer bad attitudes, and so can you. Here’re tips to develop skills that will improve your communication.
Words have incredible power, and careless words can destroy a marriage. Speaking words of death and condemnation is easy, but couples who choose encouraging, uplifting words enjoy the fruit of happiness.
Why are we unhappy in marriage? How can we repair our broken relationship? We can find healing through commitment, communication and Christ.
Personalities play a role in communication styles. A good approach is to ask your spouse about the times and situations that allow him or her to be open to healthy, honest conversation.
Being a better husband doesn’t mean that you can fix everything, it means being emotionally responsive. And there are three components to that: accessibility, responsiveness and engagement.
For 20 years, I had loved my wife — serving, sacrificing, persevering. But I had conveniently forgotten to consider what it meant to cherish her. To do that, I had to figure out what cherishing meant.