How to Get Your Husband or Wife to Listen to You
Feeling ignored or unheard by your spouse? Here are ways to encourage real conversations and get your husband or wife to listen. Does this sound like your situation?
How to Help Your Mean Husband to Be Nicer
Is your husband acting mean lately? His behavior making you feel confused, hurt, and angry? Well, don’t start getting ready to divorce. Get him to change instead.
How to Reduce Conflict in Marriage and Enjoy it More
By using good skills that prevent, reduce, or end conflict, you can have a more enjoyable marriage, starting today.
How to End a Pattern of Angry Conflict in Your Marriage
Does your spouse get angry, then provoke you to fight or retreat? Do you fight your spouse’s fire of anger with your own? You can break free of this pattern for a better marriage.
Use Boundaries for More Respect and a Better Marriage
Are you using ineffective behaviors like arguing, complaining, or pleading with your spouse? Are you losing respect failing to create effective change? Boundaries will help you to gain respect and improve your marriage.
How to Stop Being Blamed for Everything by Your Spouse
Does your spouse think everything’s your fault? That if there are problems, then you are to blame? Here’s how to end the blame once and for all without the need for marriage counseling.
How to Rebuild Your Marriage in 7 Steps
Doing the right steps, in the right order, can make all the difference for saving for your marriage rather than ending it. When people are having a marital crisis, they often try to directly change their spouse’s thinking, feelings, or behavior. While that may be necessary, this single step approach will typically be met by…
Less Quality Time with More Conflict? Change that Now
A common needy behavior is to complain and argue in order to get more attention and affection. Could this be what your spouse is doing with you? Complaining and arguing may be your spouse’s way to make sure that you still care. For couples who have become emotionally distant, arguing is often a substitute for…
How to Argue Less, Connect More with Your Spouse
You will never argue your way to a better marriage, but you can end the arguing and create a better relationship with your spouse. Did your parents try to fix relationship problems by arguing? If so, you are also likely to argue with your spouse. We learn to do what we see others doing, even when those…
The Most Effective Way to Stop Your Husband’s Disrespect
Good actions are more effective than sharing your feelings when it comes to ending disrespectful behavior. Some time ago I was interviewed by the editor of an online women’s journal. The message she wanted me to give to her readers was: 1) that you should talk to your husband if he is being disrespectful, and…
