
Will a Sabbatical Help or Hurt Your Marriage?
Let’s face it: marriage is hard work, and the stress of family, household, and life commitments can create friction within the marriage....

Recognizing When to Say “Yes” to Marriage
Questioning couples about what guided their decision to say “yes” to marriage leads to all sorts of responses. For some, it was due to...

Improve Your Relationships: Practice This 8-Second Rule
Most of us experience a rush of roughly 60,000 thoughts a day. When you consider that you respond to your partner, kids, co-workers, and...

Can you be happily married and platonic?
Marriage experts have advised us for years to marry our best friend. More important than finding a good teammate, a spouse should be...

Help! My Parents Hate My Partner
“Meet the Parents” and other romantic comedies ridicule parents’ disproval of their adult children’s choice of partner, but when the...

5 Tips to Create Fireworks in Your Relationship
Dating is demanding, but the real challenge lies in creating and nurturing a healthy, long-term, and committed relationship that you and...

Healthy Relationships: Don’t Ignore 5 Green Flags
When dating someone new, it’s difficult to definitively discern if they are the right one to commit your life to. Or perhaps you’ve been...

Couples Vacationing: Investing in Your Marriage for Your Children
Have you caught yourself daydreaming about visiting somewhere exciting with your spouse, only for that daydream to be interrupted by your...

5 Workplace Behaviors That Hurt Your Marriage
Many of us find ourselves putting in tons of hours in the office or picking up extra jobs to make ends meet. Unfortunately, this can...

Are you carrying your share of the emotional labor for your relationship?
Emotional labor, a term used to describe the amount of emotional energy applied in a relationship to sustain it, can manifest as...