Marriage Advice, Relationship Advice, Tips, and Help Articles
If you’ve ever caught your husband lying about where he was, who he was with or what he was doing, you know how much it stings. If the lies were to cover up his drinking or smoking or who he was with, it can shake you to your core. After all, how much worse can… Read More »
Stefanie, Laura Doyle Certified Coach I love eavesdropping on my three year old and his cousin. She’s four, so naturally, she assumes a position of superiority. Here’s one of their conversations: 4 year old: “You have to do whatever I say, okay?” 3 year old: “But I don’t want to!” [Copious screaming ensues.] I don’t… Read More »
Struggling in your love life robs you of confidence. Whether you’re single and wish you were happily coupled, or you’re in a relationship that’s hurting, you start to wonder if you’re defective. You torture yourself with comparisons to other women who are younger, thinner or shapelier. You may even attack yourself and your looks with… Read More »
It’s lonely to be married to a workaholic. If he’s not at work, he’s sleeping or working from home. Or he’s too tired from working so much to be much fun. He neglects not just you, but also the kids. You feel like a single mom going to get-togethers without him, always for the same,… Read More »
What if you want to be able to have every opportunity to do your life’s work and earn what you’re worth for doing it, but you don’t want to be identified as an angry woman who rails against the patriarchy and doesn’t shave her armpits? Should you call yourself a feminist? And what if you… Read More »
Around here, the TV seemed to be the main problem. If I could just get rid of the TV, I would get a lot more of my husband’s attention–or so I believed. Other women report that their husbands play video games incessantly, or work 117 hours a week, or have poker games every night. Sometimes… Read More »
You can be standing in a crowd of thousands and still feel like the only person on the planet. It doesn’t matter whether you’re married or single–loneliness can hit hard in the midst of the busiest seasons. Nothing can make you feel more isolated and insignificant than feeling like no one gets you–like no one… Read More »
If you’ve ever experienced your husband taking what looks like a sudden turn off of family life lane and speeding down immature, selfish highway—possibly in a new sports car—then you’ve probably suspected him of having a midlife crisis. Maybe he stopped telling you where he is, or suddenly isn’t coming home at the usual time.… Read More »
Control and intimacy are opposites. You can’t have intimacy when you’re trying to control the person you’re with, and if you want to be in control, the intimacy will vanish. It’s one or the other. Like light and dark. And everybody knows you can’t control other people, anyway—not your kids, not your spouse, not anyone… Read More »
At my Cherished for Life Weekend, Gigi told me she wanted to have intimacy in her marriage, but didn’t really know what it looked like. “I’ve been married for over 20 years,” she confessed, “and I feel like I just don’t even know what intimacy is.” I know what she means; I was similarly baffled… Read More »
