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How stress affects your health
Stress: We've all felt it. Sometimes stress can be a positive force, motivating you to perform well at your piano recital or job interview. But often — like when you're stuck in traffic — it's a negative force. If you […]
Financial Goal Setting With Your Spouse
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Patty Moore of Working Mother Life. For many couples, money is a major source of tension within a relationship. In fact, in a 2017 survey, 49 percent of all respondents considered money to be the most […]
TED Talk: Dare to Disagree
Good relationships aren’t built on constantly agreeing with each other, as Heffernan, serial entrepreneur and “Beyond Measure” author, explains. Great research teams, relationships, and businesses allow people to deeply disagree, she says, but “the truth won’t set us free until we […]
TED Talk: The Secret to Desire in a Long-Term Relationship
Esther Perel conducts research around the world on how couples can cultivate long-term sexual relationships. She says in her TED Talk that sustaining desire in a committed relationship comes down to reconciling our need for security and our need for […]
For the Love of Money: Couples and Finances
By: Barry Steelman, AIF® If you do a simple search on the topic of relationships and finances, you’ll come across countless sobering statistics. For example, you’ll find that money is the primary reason for arguments between couples, with many couples averaging three […]
10 Little Things Connected Couples Do
You agreed to stick it out through sickness and health and for richer or poorer, but marital vows don't address the other big things that can untie your knot—boredom, feeling out of touch, or worse, platonic friendship instead of an in-love […]
105+ Date Night Ideas
www.datenightguide.com Make date night an oldie but goodie. How? Hit up a flea market or thrift, vintage or antique store. It’ll be fun to discover one-of-a-kind or eclectic pieces with your one and only love. House party (for two) in the back. Netflix may […]
5 Promises Your Partner Will Love You For
I Promise to Love You Every Day I know that love is a choice and I choose to love you always. Though I can get busy and have my moods, you deserve my love and attention each and every […]
Fitting Together – Now Available in our Bookstore
Fitting Together Connecting Couples in Conversation by Bea Strickland https://www.bettermarriages.org/shop/books/fitting-together-connecting-couples-in-conversation In Memory of Jim Strickland August 18, 1936 – May 26, 2016 "I love you I love you I love you I will always love you I will keep you in my heart forever" Connection-Disconnection Cycle It feels good […]
New Beginnings
By: Jay & Laura Laffoon, jayandlaura.com Are you as 100% disciplined as you’d like to be in your marriage? We figure most of you would answer “NO”. The devastating answer is that you ARE as 100% disciplined as you will EVER be! You are 100% disciplined […]
