You will need to use both good boundaries and loving communication in order to end your spouse’s affair and stay emotionally connected You can build your relationship while your spouse is in love with another person as long as you keep good boundaries to prevent your spouse from having his or cake and eating it too. Building first is particularly...

Financial conflicts can cause relationship problems OR be caused by relationship problems. Dealing with the root cause will end your financial conflicts. Different values, different desires, and different needs are just a few of the reasons why couples argue about money. Dealing with these differences is essential to ending financial conflicts. A two step...

Dissatisfaction in marriage can happen when couples lose the regular fun and adventure they used to have. Even small changes can bring joy and closeness back. Marriages, just like single relationships, need to be fun. The idea that marriage is an institution for the raising of children, maintaining of a home, and the raising of capital is not a particularly fun...

If you are having a marriage crisis, you need to get along better and deal with serious issues. Which one you start with is going to make all the difference. When you are having a marital crisis, the obvious solution is to get your spouse to change. But, the harder you try to change your spouse, the more conflict will result. This is the downward spiral that...

Intimacy in marriage feels good and protects your relationship from stagnation and unfaithfulness. Do you know what intimacy means and how to have more of it with your spouse? Having a good understanding of what intimacy in marriage is can help you to behave in a way that will help you have more intimacy and a more satisfying relationship. It can also help you...

Your spouse used to enjoy emotional intimacy with you, but now seems to more interested in work, social media, or TV. How can you become close again? Before getting married, most couples enjoy spending a lot of time together doing things just because they like to be with each other. After getting married, the same couples can become emotionally detached. With...

Discover the reasons your husband won’t talk to you and what you can do about it to make your relationship better–for the both of you. When men stop talking to their wives, it is not something that makes them happy. In fact, it makes both them and their wives miserable. The reasons for such behavior ranges from poor communication skills to a desire...

To stop resenting your spouse you will need to change a belief, an expectation, and a behavior. Then, you will have more of the love, appreciation, and attention that you want Resentment is created when we do things for someone else, expecting something in return. We may simply want recognition and appreciation for our service. Or, we may want our spouses to...

A trial separation is a time limited, structured separation, best used when both spouses want to build their relationship. Unstructured separations, on the other hand, are much more helpful when only one spouse wants to reconcile. Trial separation is a method commonly used by marriage counselors. Marriage counselors work with couples when both want to rebuild...

Marital separation (living in different homes), can be a good opportunity for rebuilding your relationship. It can also result in ending your relationship if not done in a good way. When you are separated, you are likely to be overly focused on ending the separation. This is natural because you miss your spouse and just want to be together again. However, you...