How can we promote happiness in our environment? Gratitude could very well be the key.Because many of us may lead busy and stressful lives that barely give us quality time to spend with our loved ones, we tend to forget that having them in our lives … [Read more...]
How to Make Your Marriage More Sustainable
Plenty of marriages survive for the sake of children, religious expectations, or economic reasons. During this economic recession, this may be clear to you if you’re staying in a stale marriage because you can’t financially survive on your own right … [Read more...]
Creativity and Self-Expansion in a Healthy Marriage
What is it that keeps a couple together? If it’s not what is described in the endless letters and sonnets of pain and woe, akin to torturing each other, what is the glue that binds us? Is it something else, perhaps love? It may not be feelings … [Read more...]
Too near, too far? How personal boundaries and self-esteem mix
In conflict situations, emotional and physical boundaries set the tone for how conflict will be handled, and even when/how conflict will arise. For some, a lack of boundaries creates contact that is more intrusive than intimate; for others, too many … [Read more...]
Fighting Again? Find Out If Your Relationship Is Do, or Die
We talk a lot about managing your differences and learning to see them as opportunities to grow as a couple. Quite often, subjective things like “opposite personalities” are opportunities to express respect and trust, and don’t have to be what breaks … [Read more...]
