How Not Forgiving Your Parents Can Impact Your Marriage

Whether your parents committed a minor infraction or a major one, the inability or unwillingness to forgive them can have serious consequences. Holding a grudge against them will impact your marriage. Even if you don’t talk to your parents, your anger toward them still plays a bigger role in your life than you’d like to [...]

Identifying Underlying Fears Beneath the Conflict

Many conflicts arise out of fear. Identifying what these fears are can be helpful in establishing a solution. This can help you determine a course of action to address your fears while also working toward meeting your partner’s needs. When you disagree with your partner, ask yourself, “What am I afraid will happen if I [...]

How to Respond When Your Spouse Annoys You

Part of being married to someone means that your spouse will get on your nerves sometimes. Some of their habits are likely to annoy you. How you respond when you feel annoyed, makes a big difference in your marriage. Something important to remember when you feel annoyed by your spouse is that you annoy your [...]

What Can You Learn From the Marriages Around You?

Have you ever noticed how marriages can be very different? Some couples treat each other like royalty. Other couples tend to complain about their spouse and act as if their marriage is a nuisance. It can be helpful to take a look around at the marriages around you and learn from them. People who are [...]

What’s the Difference Between Anger and Abuse?

It’s important to distinguish the difference between angry behaviors and abusive behaviors. Anger is a natural and normal feeling. However, the behaviors people exhibit when they feel angry may or may not be acceptable. Abuse should not be tolerated. The underlying reasons for angry behaviors and abusive behaviors are different. When people are angry they [...]

5 Tips to Save your Marriage

In Marriage, Happiness is a Choice

As a young man, I wondered why the fathers of young women that I wanted to hang around were so unfriendly toward me. Now that I have been a father and a grandfather, I think that I can see a little bit of the reason that no boy is ever considered good enough for Daddy’s little girl.

1. Pedestal Placement. Little girls are placed on pedestals by their fathers on the day that they are born. There is no room on that pedestal for an additional person, especially a person of the opposite gender.
2. Genetic Deficiencies. Every young man that gets near that little girl is obviously deficient in his genetic inheritance. They all appear, particularly as they get closer to her, to have Neanderthal ancestry.
3. Genetic Perfection Stands Alone. Need any more be said? I mean, really, she’s absolutely perfect exactly as she is. She needs no male accessory to distract from her perfection.

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It’s no secret that maintaining a long-distance relationship requires a huge amount of work and dedication. Whether it’s the result of deployment, relocation or an online romance, being separated from one another can be the most difficult things a couple ever goes through. Here are some tips to help make the separation more bearable.

1. Stay Positive – Fight the temptation to hunker down with an MP3 player full of sad songs and a bottle of wine. Instead, try to concentrate on the positive aspects of your relationship.
2. Focus On Future Plans – When the pressure of being separated gets to be a bit too much, it helps to focus on the future. Whether it’s the next meeting or the big picture, thinking about what you’re working towards and waiting for can make it all seem worthwhile.
3. Get Out of the House – Go out. Go to the park or a museum, out for a walk or to dinner with friends. Doing something fun will keep your mind off the separation and will give you something to talk about the next time you’re on the phone.

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10 Powerful Secrets For How To Build A Great Marriage