End Your Spouse’s Addiction and Have a Better Marriage
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End Your Spouse’s Addiction and Have a Better Marriage

Badgering your spouse to end an addiction will do more harm than good. You need to combine love and good boundaries if you want to see things change. Trying to build a relationship with an addicted spouse is frustrating and prone to failure. Just when you think you are making progress, you will find your…

Better Communication in Marriage to Promote Understanding
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Better Communication in Marriage to Promote Understanding

Do you communicate to your spouse what you want in a direct, clear, and positive way? Learning to do so can help your spouse to enjoy talking with you more and help you get more of what you want from your spouse. What do you usually do when your spouse is doing something you don’t…

Divorce Warning Sign: Petty Arguments and How to Rebuild
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Divorce Warning Sign: Petty Arguments and How to Rebuild

Sometimes arguing is an attempt to address a legitimate issue, sometimes it signals a desire for more closeness, and sometimes it is a signal of an impending affair or divorce. If your spouse is picking arguments, you will need to be able to discern and respond correctly. At the beginning of marriage, arguments are common….

How to Make Sure Marriage Differences Don’t Become Irreconcilable
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How to Make Sure Marriage Differences Don’t Become Irreconcilable

Can you get cooperation and fix a marriage when you are very different from each other?  Absolutely! The main reason couples have difficulty solving their relationship problems is because they don’t work to find common ground. They want to fix the biggest differences so badly that they tackle those head on. The big differences reflect differences…

Get Better Behavior from Your Spouse without Conflict
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Get Better Behavior from Your Spouse without Conflict

You can get your spouse to change by working on effectively responding to what your spouse is or is not doing If you are like many dissatisfied spouses, you can identify some significant problems that your spouse has. It may be that the only way for your relationship to improve is to somehow get your…

How to Talk About Relationship Problems in a Way that Your Spouse will Like
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How to Talk About Relationship Problems in a Way that Your Spouse will Like

The way you talk about relationship problems makes a huge difference. If your talking often evolves into conflicts, you will want to learn these rules for relationship success. It is not communication per se that builds relationships. Rather it is both the way the we talk about things and how much the other person enjoys…

7 Steps to Restore Your Marriage and Feel Like a Couple Again
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7 Steps to Restore Your Marriage and Feel Like a Couple Again

Marriage restoration means acting less “married” and getting back to what made you and your spouse want to be together in the first place. The difference between a good runner and a great runner is often just a few seconds. The difference between a lifeless, routine marriage and a satisfying relationship also is often very…

4 Keys to Effective Boundaries You Can Use to Build Your Marriage
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4 Keys to Effective Boundaries You Can Use to Build Your Marriage

Boundaries are the effective alternative to arguing or pleading with your spouse to change. Stop losing respect and get back to a better relationship.  Do your marriage problems get worse when you talk about them with your spouse? If so, you may have learned to keep your mouth shut rather than make your problems worse….