Talking About Money
Six Tips To Help You Talk about Money Effectively 1. Discuss money only when you are both rested and focused enough to stay out of the usual quagmires of attacking and blaming. Don’t begin a discussion after you both are exhausted from the stress of the day. 2. Agree to take a break when things […]
Talking Money
Difficulties in Talking about Money As a couple you may tend to avoid serious conversations about money because when you do, someone blows up and stalks off. All too often we wrap our money into our identity. Things like how much we make, how we use it, how we save it, and how we spend […]
Economic Crisis and Marriage
The Financial Crisis and Your Marriage Stress and anxiety about the future can wreak havoc on your relationship. This financial crisis ranks high on the Richter scale of calamitous events. In fact, conflicts about money takes second place to infidelity as a cause of marital stress. Not only might you be worried about your jobs […]
Best Kept Secret
One of the Best Kept Secrets for a Long Marriage One of the important secrets to a long marriage is to forgive your partner for being different. It’s a similar phenomena to a secret watching your parents in their senior years . To walk with them into their senior years, we have to forgive them […]
Marriage & Health
A Stressful Marriage Can Be as Bad for the Heart as Regular Smoking Generally, marriage lowers the risk of pneumonia, cancer, the need for surgery, and heart attacks. So overall, you might think that since you are married, you are naturally going to be more healthy than you would be if you were single. However, […]
Be Expanded In Marriage
Building a Marriage That Expands You Creates a Relationship That Will Last In a widely talked about article in the New York Times, Tara Parker-Pope talks about relationships where each partner expands the other. {http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/weekinreview/02parkerpope.html}. Caryl Rusbult, a researcher at Vrije University called it the “’Michelangelo effect,’ referring to the manner in which close partners […]