What To Do If I’m Stuck
What To Do If You’re Stuck Usually a stalemate means you have bumped into an anticipated loss of a deeply held dream or expectation. As you demand that the two of you stick to a budget that eliminates any funds for play of any kind, your partner may consciously or unconsciously go into a funk. […]
The Brain & Being In-Love
I Love My Partner But I Am Not In Love With Her/Him
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 […]