When you’re facing a marriage crisis and you’re fighting to keep your relationship 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. (more…)

By Nancy Wasson

Quick, what is the most common attitude a spouse can have that leads a marriage down the path to breakup? If you said taking the partner for granted, you’d be right. Is this an issue in your marriage? (more…)

Did you know that a trained observer could watch you and your spouse interact for several minutes and then predict with high accuracy whether your marriage will survive or not? Does that sound unbelievable?

In his bestselling book Blink, author Malcolm Gladwell writes about psychologist John Gottman’s research on what attitudes increase the chances that a marriage will end in divorce. (more…)

No doubt many experts and marriage counselors will differ in opinion on what makes a good marriage, but true friendship must be one of them. If there is true friendship between husband and wife, the marriage avoids landing on the rocks. Instead, it becomes a rock-hard marriage where no individual or circumstance can put it asunder. (more…)

Is there any help for a woman whose marriage is suffering from lack of intimacy in the bedroom? Stated a little differently, a woman in a sexless marriage.Keep reading for the answer…

A sexless marriage is one of the most difficult marital problems to overcome. A sexless marriage doesn’t usually happen overnight, but creeps up slowly on you until one day you realize the painful truth.
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Do you ever worry about your spouse becoming involved in an affair? Have you wondered what makes a spouse easy prey for someone else who’s looking for an excuse to stray?

If so, then you have plenty of company. Given all the news stories and movies about cheating spouses, you’d have to be an ostrich with your head buried in the sand not to at least occasionally consider the possibility. (more…)

Are you the partner of a control freak?

Is he or she a controlling personality who likes to get their own way and ignores your own personal feelings?

Maybe you are not too sure about it and need a little help to decide. So here’s few questions you need to ask yourself to help you find out if you are in the powerful grip of a control freak… (more…)

Have you ever felt like spying on your spouse’s computer because you suspect they are involved in online cheating with someone in the internet chat rooms? It might not be morally right to do so, but some people have only found out about their partner’s online cheating when it is too late.
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Recognizing you have a marriage problem is the first step along the road to transforming your marriage, and for most couples simply acknowledging there is a problem shatters the marriage myth. According to love stories, movies, and fairytales we are supposed to live ‘happily ever after’. But what happens when Snow White develops a drinking problem? What happens when Robin Hood’s long working hours start affecting his marriage to Maid Marian? What happens when Cinderella says she has ‘fallen out of love’? (more…)

Good marriages are not made in heaven. They are very much made on earth, and between couples who have respect for each other. Without respect, no marriage can survive. If the man has ego, the woman has vanity. The two can’t meet unless each learns to accommodate the other. (more…)

We don’t need the services of a psychologist to tell us that the best marriages are those that are based on good communication. Yet, we rarely try to mend our ways. We carry on along our paths, hoping that somehow everything will fall into place.

At times, it does – thanks to the efforts of our partners. But mostly it does not. We allow the fault lines to deepen and reach a stage where they can no longer be bridged. (more…)

Co-dependent marriages are the most abusive form of marriages. They are based on need, but are not healthy. Each partner in the marriage tries to take advantage of his or her hold on the other partner. This can often deteriorate into the sort of marriage where the two partners can neither live together nor live apart. (more…)

Look, I have to level with you. I have a strong bias toward maintaining a marriage. I’m not stupid, however. There does come a time when enough is enough. A sex problem can escalate into complete emotional apathy. Physical or emotional abuse can result in apathy, and maybe even enough real threat to cross the line. There are real reasons for ending a marriage. (more…)

How can you put the romance back in your sexless relationship? Well, there are two ways to put the romance back in your relationship. One way is to move back, and the other is to ahead. (more…)

Sexless marriages are one of the most painful causes of divorce. A lack of sexual intimacy in a marriage is a common reason for a marriage to fail and finding a solution isn’t easy. (more…)