How to Identify a Needy, Dependent, Codependent, or Secure Spouse
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How to Identify a Needy, Dependent, Codependent, or Secure Spouse

You will never learn how to have a good relationship from following social trends. You must use relationship styles that have worked for thousands of years to have a lasting relationship. In my coaching I encounter three basic relationship styles that cause confusion and conflict for both men and women. Often what people consider to…

I Changed Like She Wanted, So Why Won’t My Wife Come Back to Me?
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I Changed Like She Wanted, So Why Won’t My Wife Come Back to Me?

Okay, you messed up in the past, but now you are doing all that she ever wanted plus more. Still, your wife won’t come back. What’s going on? Men get scared when their wives want to separate or divorce. Because of that, they try to quickly change their wife’s decision. What they typically do is…

How to Talk to Your Adult Children about Your Marriage Problems
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How to Talk to Your Adult Children about Your Marriage Problems

Sooner or later your adult children are going to know there is a problem. When you want to reconcile with your spouse, you must be careful not to alienate your spouse from the kids. Many people find out the hard way that confiding in their adult children about their marriage problems is not always the…

How to Confront Your Husband’s Affair and Reconcile
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How to Confront Your Husband’s Affair and Reconcile

How and when to confront your spouse’s affair is part of the solution. The other is knowing how to rebuild following the confrontation. Robin had been feeling for a long time like she was unimportant to her husband. He didn’t seem to be interested in talking with her anymore. He would if he needed to,…

4 Things NOT Do When You Have an Alcoholic Spouse (Avoid These Relationship Mistakes)
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4 Things NOT Do When You Have an Alcoholic Spouse (Avoid These Relationship Mistakes)

If you have an alcoholic spouse, you may be making one of these four mistakes. Changing even that one thing can give your relationship a real boost.  Everyone wants to have a good marriage or relationship. People who have an alcoholic spouse want to have a good relationship. Even alcoholic spouses, want to have good relationships. No…

How to Improve Your Relationship with an Anxious or Depressed Spouse
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How to Improve Your Relationship with an Anxious or Depressed Spouse

There is no need to wait for your anxious or depressed spouse to recover before working on your relationship. There are things that you can do to make your relationship better now. Loving your husband or wife means more than just committing to live in the same house and help with the chores. It means…

How to Solve Financial and Other Problems without Fighting
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How to Solve Financial and Other Problems without Fighting

Fighting in marriage is an attempt to coerce or persuade a spouse to do things they don’t want to do. It always creates stress and emotional distancing, even when it works. Arguing or fighting as some people like to say is never healthy for relationships. It is normal only in the sense that it is…

How to Cope with Spouses who Blame, Criticize and Verbally Abuse
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How to Cope with Spouses who Blame, Criticize and Verbally Abuse

Are you ready to be part of the solution by learning how to effectively respond, rather than react, to your spouse’s blaming, criticism, or verbal abuse? It is time for you to realize that if your spouse is repeatedly blaming, criticizing, or verbally abusing you, what you are doing to stop it does not work….