Marriage Advice, Relationship Advice, Tips, and Help Articles
By Mari-Jean, Laura Doyle Certified Coach I have always believed in marriage. I just couldn’t make it work. First married for two years at 18 and again at 35, this time for only a year, I could not figure out how to be in love for very long. In 2003, at age 53, I found… Read More »
By Empowered Wife Katherine I started dating when I was twelve years old. I thought I was the expert on men! I had twelve relationships before meeting my husband. However, they all had a way of not working out. I made a wish that I would settle down with a good guy before I turned… Read More »
New Year, New You New Year’s Day is like a brand new notebook waiting to be filled with accounts of your organized, nutritious, fit, accomplished, prosperous life with your loving mate. Of course, you can make your life better any time of the year, but there’s something inspiring about January, as though she is holding… Read More »
When your man is making bad decisions, it drags you down. It’s like he’s broken, and since your fates are tied together by matrimony, that’s a lot of weight you’re pulling when your hands are already full. You’d like him to start contributing more, so it’s logical to try to help him improve. You’ve tried… Read More »
When you’re falling in love, you’re temporarily insane. You didn’t even notice things like bad breath or that he has ESPN on all the time or slurps his cereal. But years into marriage, you not only notice unattractive things about him, you’ve completely lost sight of whatever it was you saw in him. Why did… Read More »
When your husband is on the couch watching TV or staring at his phone while you’re doing the zillionth load of laundry, shuttling your kids around for the fifth time that day or putting in long work hours, it can rub you the wrong way. Especially if he doesn’t even seem to know how clean… Read More »
When there’s a breakdown in your relationship, it can trigger shame. You don’t want other people to know what he just called you, or how you’ve been sleeping separately, or that he punched a wall or shook one of the kids or isn’t coming home at night. When you’re scared like that, it’s normal to… Read More »
When it comes to keeping the magic alive for a lifetime, here’s what I know now: Forget about premarital counseling or talking exhaustively about how to parent, where to live and how much to save for retirement. Turns out that song about how the greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be… Read More »
You hardly ever get to hear what’s actually going on inside of people’s marriages. The more serious the problem, the less you hear about it. That’s why, when you’re in a struggling relationship, you feel like the only one in the world with that problem. Of course you’re not. Lots of women have the same… Read More »
I often hear this heartbreaking question from women: “My husband says he’s not in love with me anymore. Should I just give up and move on?” Who wouldn’t feel unloved and hopeless hearing those words? What a lousy thing to experience. But it doesn’t mean your man will continue to feel that way. You have… Read More »
