Communication and Conflict
Initiative
Have You Lost Hope in Your Marriage?
For Couples in Crisis ... You can still put the pieces back together with Hope Restored
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Who Did You Marry?: Understanding Your Spouse
People who have been staunchly committed to faith and family fall into trouble when they don't grow with their spouse. We need to continually "update" our knowledge about our husband or wife.
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Extinguishing Marital Conflict
Marriage conflict often involves more than simply an issue over which the couple disagrees. How the couple interacts and the negative feelings experienced by each person also affect communication.
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Reducing Conflict in Your Marriage
In a discussion based on her book The Argument-Free Marriage, Fawn Weaver explains how you can reduce conflict with your spouse by making small, intentional changes, timing your discussions, establishing rules of engagement, and more.
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Managing Stress Together
What do you do when you're stressed out? When you deal with stressful events in unhealthy ways, you create new problems in your relationships. But there are ways to constructively deal with stress.
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Why Couples Stop Talking
Good communication is the lifeblood of a successful marriage, so when spouses stop talking at a deep level, their marriages slowly die. A marriage will only be as good as a couple's communication.
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Believing the Best About Your Spouse
When you decide to view your spouse as a good-willed person, that perspective changes your entire relationship. Even in the middle of conflict, you can see each other as partners and friends.
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Control in Marriage
"I've come to realize, through my own experience as well as in conversation with friends, that marriage works best when my husband and I labor in tandem." — Yvette Maher
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Learn to Identify Your Emotions
Using "soul words" helps develop a greater awareness of your inner experiences. And once you begin the awareness process, you will be amazed at how thoughts, feelings and reactions become clearer to you.
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Article
Are You Kind to Your Husband?
Shaunti Feldhahn shares from the results of her recent research, pointing out that she found the answer to having a great marriage was simple—be kind.
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Peace on Earth ... and Goodwill Toward Your Man
Christmas may be the most wonderful time of the year, but the busyness of the season and financial pressures can lead to stress, which breeds conflict and leads to a disconnect in marriage.
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Article
When You and Your Spouse Can't Agree
Perpetual disagreements don't have to derail your marriage. Most unsolvable problems won’t harm your relationship if you have an adequate set of communication skills and follow a few basic principles.
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Mastering Your Spouse's Love Language
Can struggling relationships be reborn? The answer is yes— if couples become aware of the nature of love and learn how to express it in a language their mate can understand.
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When Your Wife Doesn't Like You
Your relationship with your spouse is often gauged by a "like meter," which describes how you feel about him or her. What can you do to lift the needle?
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Series
Discover the Joy of Helping Your Spouse Succeed
When you discover the joy of helping your spouse succeed, you begin to establish or restore emotional health, respect, support and encouragement in your marriage.
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Encourage and Support Your Spouse
All of us have areas in which we feel insecure, and that often hinders us from accomplishing positive things that we would like to do. The latent potential within your spouse may await your encouraging words.
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Discover the Joy of Helping Your Spouse Succeed
When you discover the joy of helping your spouse succeed, you begin to establish or restore emotional health, respect, support and encouragement in your marriage.
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Communicating Respect
An attitude of respect paves the way for you to show respect for your mate. Respect does not indicate that you agree on everything, but it does mean that you give your spouse the freedom to be an individual.
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Give Your Spouse Emotional Support
Giving emotional support to your spouse begins by allowing positive and negative emotions. It means celebrating the positive emotions and affirming the negative emotions.
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30-Second Marriage Boosters
Couples can find the balance between a busy life and a growing relationship, and they can further enhance their love with these simple, 30-second habits.
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Honest Affirmation Can Make Your Marriage Great
Amid the busyness of life, Erin Smalley incorporates simple affirmation into her marriage relationship and watches her husband thrive.
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Strong Women and Married Life
Most strong-willed women handle marriage the way we do almost everything else — we have the capacity to bring out both great passion and great friction.
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How Can I Forgive My Spouse?
To overcome unforgiveness, we need to deal with our emotional wounds and let them heal.
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How Childhood Experiences Impact Marriage Relationships
Our childhood experiences and the way our parents related to us have imprinted certain thought patterns and behaviors on us.
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