Living Out Your Vowels
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What is Your Tone of Voice Saying?
When our children were small, I used to hear my wife speaking to our kids in a tone of voice that sounded like they were her worst enemies….but she couldn’t hear it! And she would hear me speaking to our kids in a tone of voice that made her fear for the lives of our […]
Is Boredom Beating Your Marriage?
Let’s face it … we live in a culture where we’re quickly bored. We change jobs … channels … and conversation topics in the blink of an eye. Today’s media knows this and bombards its ADD audience with sound bite messages every 15 to 30 seconds … Unfortunately many of us who are married … have lost […]
5 Reasons Why a Vacation Can Strengthen Your Marriage
It’s summertime … and for many of us that means … it’s vacation time! A chance to “vacate” our everyday routines of work and life that can break down family relationships! Did you know that going on a vacation can strengthen your marriage and family? Here are five reasons why that’s true: Vacations lift moods: A change […]
How to Prevent Getting Stuck in a Rut
We work with many couples who are experiencing challenging marriages after they attend one of our intensives. They realize how their marriage slips slowly into the crisis situation that brought them to us. They had let things get too far out of hand. They slipped back into a rut. So here are some thoughts to help us from letting things get too far: 1. […]
Tackling Stress in Marriage
Have you ever gotten so stressed out that it hurt your marriage? Overloaded family schedules, under-funded bank accounts, mountains of maintenance, stuff that needs to be done around the house, parenting pressures, not to mention the little bits of stress that we import every day from our day. Jobs all take a toll on our marriage and family relationships. These negative effects of stress are obvious. […]
10 Symptoms of a Deteriorating Marriage
I have received this list of ten symptoms of a deteriorating marriage. Let me share it with you: 1. You’re constantly hearing I love you, but I’m not in love with you. 2. One of you wants to go for marriage counseling, but the other won’t participate. 3. You feel like you’re in a convenient business or roommate partnership rather than in a […]
Ballpark Proposal
Most of us have seen this…sometime during a baseball game the jumbo screen flashes to a couple and the fans all watch as a young man gets out a small box with a big ring and asks his girlfriend to marry him. And after they hug and kiss, the fans in the stands erupt into thunderous cheers and applause. Well, a few years ago, […]
Hostile Couple
Last week, we talked about the Volatile couple who ride an emotional roller coaster. Two weeks ago, we introduced you to the avoiding couple. They are the couple who works hard to bury anything negative in the relationship. They don’t talk about it because they don’t want any conflict, just a blissful coexistence. Well, this week we’re going to talk about the hostile […]
Volatile Couple
Is your marriage writing an emotional roller coaster? If so, you may be what Professor Murry calls the volatile couple. Volatile couples, as their label implies, are unstable. Doing their marital dance on the devoted divorce borderline, spouses are like microwaves and flash freezers. Their emotions, whether positive or negative, instantly heat up and boil over or plunge as cold as ice rapidly. This […]