How to Complain Without Hurting Your Partner… or Your Relationship

How to Complain Without Hurting Your Partner… or Your Relationship

If only every couple knew this. It’s the strategy employed by married people who, 25 years later, still can’t get enough of each other.  It’s knowing how to express how you feel without hurting your partner’s feelings or immediately putting them on the defense. ...
How to Love Your Partner Using the 5 Love Languages

How to Love Your Partner Using the 5 Love Languages

If you don’t know your partner’s love language, or worse—you know it, but you’re not “speaking” it—you’re missing out.  Love is an incredible thing.  Understanding and nurturing your partner’s love language is an excellent way to make them feel...
What is Attachment and How Does it Influence My Relationship?

What is Attachment and How Does it Influence My Relationship?

You just had another bad fight.  The whole weekend you fixated on your phone, and they never called or responded to your texts. “It’s rude, disrespectful! You told me we should do something Saturday, and then…nothing!” Literally a bundle of nerves, you hover over your...
Ways to Increase Passion in Your Marriage

Ways to Increase Passion in Your Marriage

We all know how incredible it feels to be consumed by desire. Clothing gets ripped off, phones forgotten, and—you know what happens next. As the years go by, what once felt so powerful and incredible dwindles. It becomes obligatory, routine. And that’s if it even...
Why Authenticity is Important in a Relationship

Why Authenticity is Important in a Relationship

Is being an adult basically just trying to undo the damage that occurred during childhood? That and a hefty dose of never-ending paperwork?  Maybe. Childhood is a confusing maze of trying to please adults while also trying to fit in with peers. From an early age,...
The Four Horsemen and Their Antidotes

The Four Horsemen and Their Antidotes

If you’re in a relationship, there are four seemingly inconsequential things that—if you’re not careful—have the ability to take what you’ve worked so hard for, and smash it to pieces. The Four Horsemen as they’re often called are the main reason most relationships...