Stepparents and Loving Their Stepchildren - Why It's Just Not the Same

Learn why it is difficult for Stepparents and their spouses to have a productive discussion about the children.

The Reality of Arranged Marriages

Arranged marriages have been a topic of interest for centuries. Authors across the ages have explored this theme at length, and it still surfaces in literary works today. What's the appeal? Is it the fascination with the lack of lust and desire we cultivate in North American society? We strive on the element of danger, of the forbidden, while an arranged marriage is usually a safe way to ensure a family's approval of a union.

Keeping Romance In Your Marriage

Use these basic strategies to keep happiness and romance in your marriage.

How to Enhance and Enrich Your Marriage

Effective skills and techniques for improving your marital relationship.

New Findings on Happiness Have Implications for Rocky Marriages

There are two actions you can take that will not only improve your own level of happiness, but that will also help strengthen a shaky marriage. Both will leave you feeling better about yourself and your marriage.

How to Keep Hope Alive During a Marriage Crisis

During a marriage crisis, you can feel like your whole world is falling apart and all of your dreams are being shattered. Despite your fear and anxiety, it's up to you to keep hope alive, especially if you want to save your marriage and your spouse wants out. This article gives nine tips on how to keep hope alive and how to cope during this trying time of crisis.

How To Fight Cultural Differences In Marriage And Stay Happy

When people plan to marry, they expect to find in their partner not only a lover but a friend also. A person with whom they can share their opinions, their emotions, thoughts and fears. In marriage...

Marriage Advice: Upgrade Your Marriage By Changing Your Focus

Continually focusing on marriage problems makes the relationship seem even worse than it actually is. And what you focus on will grow and expand. Follow the advice in the five tips to train yourself to focus more on what's right with your marriage and your life. When you do, surprising things can happen in your marriage.

Marriage Counseling Tips: What to Do When Your Spouse Won't Talk

What can you do if your spouse won't talk to you in spite of everything you've tried? This article presents tips designed to jumpstart your thinking about creative ways to open communication channels with your partner. The first thing you have to do is to grab your spouse's attention, which is what these tips are designed to do.

The Right Age To Marry!

With more and more women deciding to marry only after they have settled down in their careers, the marriage age seems to be more and more flexible. What is the correct age to tie the knot for a woman? Early 20s or early 30s? Or later?

Tips For A Lasting Marriage

A lasting marriage requires effort, but the results are worth it. Find out how to make your marriage last.

Marriage Advice: What to Throw Overboard When Your Marriage Is In Trouble

When your marriage is in trouble and you’re fighting to keep it afloat, it’s time to throw anything that isn’t helping you overboard. You need all your wits about you to be able to handle the crisis and tackle the problems. Anything that’s an impediment or hindrance has to go. What do you need to consider throwing overboard? The eight recommendations in this article can help you to decide.

What Has Worked For Us (Brief Reflections On Enjoying 36 Years Of Marriage)

We are not perfect, we don't agree on all things, and we still work through issues even after being married for nearly thirty-six years. Thirty-six years. And we still enjoy it -- LOL!

Marriage Advice: Seven Marriage Myths You Can't Afford to Ignore

If you’re like most people, you probably entered into marriage with a number of unchallenged assumptions in place. Why should you be concerned if this is the case? Because what you aren’t aware of can blindside you down the marital road, that’s why. Review these seven misguided assumptions for a quick reality check.