Marriage and Relationship Advice

The 9 Best Relationship Resolutions You Can Make to Improve Your Marriage 1 Decide how to handle arguments (when you're not fighting). Getty Images No couple is immune to arguments, and having a system in place to handle hurt feelings now will strengthen your relationship later. Matthew Mutchler, Ph.D., LMFT, says he often sees couples who have different expectations of how to handle a disagreement. "People get wrapped up in being 'right' or 'fixing' a problem [and] they miss the point," says Mutchler. "Underlying many conflicts is a desire to be heard, understood, and validated. You can tell the quality of a relationship by how they hear and respond to one another. Your partner might just want you to say 'I understand what you're feeling' without qualifications." 2 Make more time for one another. relationships, resolution, new year Getty Images If the past year turned out to be more hectic than either of you ima...

Getting Over Someone: The Harsh Truth You Might Not Like to Hear   Yes. Although it’ll be hard no matter what, you can always work to get over someone you once cared for. If you’re struggling with your feelings for them and don’t know where to start, we’ve got you covered. #1 Talk to someone professionally. If it’s been a while and you’re still having a hard time getting over someone, go ahead and talk to a professional. It’s their job to help you. You may have some deeper feelings that are getting in the way of getting over someone and you can’t find them yourself. There’s nothing wrong with getting professional help when it comes to something as serious as this. #2 Think about why it’s so hard. And I mean really think about it. Don’t just throw away thoughts of that person because you don’t want to see them. While that may seem like the easy way to get over them, it actually might make things worse. You have to discover why it is you’re holding on to them so m...

These relationship goals are what you should have. This is what you should strive for when it comes to your significant other. Just think about what your grandparents valued in a relationship—those are the true relationship goals, and here are our top 15 favorites. #1 Having true trust. Forget about holding each other’s hands overlooking a mountainous terrain. Real relationship goals are being able to be at the top of that mountain and trusting that the person you’re with would never let you fall over the edge. Trust is the most important relationship goal that we all need, yet it is the most forgotten. [Read: How to build trust in a relationship and make it last ] #2 Being honest with each other. I’m not talking about never, ever telling a little white lie. I’m talking about being able to go to your partner and be honest about all of the big things in life. Real relationship goals include being open and honest with your partner about whatever you have to say, knowing t...

You feel pain when someone you love betrays or injures you. Certain actions or attitudes – unfaithfulness, selfishness, addiction — can wreak emotional and even physical wounds on a relationship that’s supposed to make you feel happy and safe. And when those wounds come from the person with whom you’ve joined yourself, heart and soul, in a covenant before God, the knife twists–and the pain increases. The truth is, sometimes love hurts because we’re fallen creatures living in a fallen world. This broken world often hands us unwelcome trials – a job loss, a miscarriage, a chronic illness, a child with special needs. But sometimes our own needy nature causes us to inflict pain on our spouse by succumbing to volcanic anger, abuse, or an addiction (pornography, alcohol, even television). Whether it’s done unwittingly or intentionally, we damage our marriage when we go MIA emotionally, fight, or react to conflict in passive-aggressive or narcissistic ways instead of ways t...

Marriage — that living, growing relationship between you and your spouse — can be impacted by its external environment. For instance, are you spending too much time watching TV instead of interacting with your husband or wife? Are either or you stressed by outside factors such as your career, your kids, interfering friends or family, or even your hectic schedules? Or maybe the internal dynamics of your relationship are showing symptoms that there’s a different potential problem. Whatever the case, it’s critically important you do everything you can to keep your marriage vital and strong — in other words, healthy. The following articles will help you diagnose the state of your most important earthly relationship, and give you the checkup you need to maintain or regain your marital health.

You feel emotionally wrecked for months, I remember I cut off my connection from humanity; I worked myself like a dog into the depths of the night and exhausted myself to sleep. Everything was better than the pain I had been through. After a bad breakup people, toss themselves in a realm of self-imposed harm. In search of a rebound, they end up dating the wrong people all over again, causing further damage, harm and suffering to their already-battered existence. Even though they yearn to feel again, they end up suffering from emotional blockages. The best thing to do at this point is to stop trying and to figure out what went wrong. You feel emotionally wrecked for months, I remember I cut off my connection from humanity; I worked myself like a dog into the depths of the night and exhausted myself to sleep. Everything was better than the pain I had been through. What happened everyday? I wouldn’t actually be able to explain it but I do know that life was hard and I w...

23 signs that tell you she’s the woman you’ll be spending your whole life with 1. Her presence inspires you to be better than you were yesterday, to strive and get more out of this life that we’re granted and to just reach newer heights every day. 2. You always went through life feeling like this emotionless guy. You felt like nothing in the world could make you break that strong exterior wall you had slowly built around you. But suddenly, this girl just makes you want to love, she makes you want to be truly happy and she even has the potential to make you cry. All these emotions that you never felt before are just so unreal and amazing. 3. You’ve noticed this one weird thing lately. Her smile makes you smile. Sometimes, you don’t even have any idea behind the reason for her smile but just the fact that she’s happy makes you even happier. 4. The same happens when she laughs. You just have to hear that laughter once and all your tensions and worries go away. 5. Bu...

She is optimistic Very few people in the world are blessed enough to stay optimistic even after all the hardships life throws their way. Have you started to look at the glass as half full instead of half empty since the day she walked into your life? Does her positive vibe automatically make you begin to smile a little brighter every time she walks into the room? Is she the kind of person who has the ability to find a silver lining no matter how bad a situation might be? If the answer to all or even one of these questions is a yes, then this girl is definitely a keeper. She is the girl who will always be your rock. The girl who will stay strong in the moments when you can’t. The girl who will start to make your life better just by being a part of it. She supports all your goals and dreams Everyone hopes to figure out what they truly want in life. Everyone wants to discover that one thing that has the power to keep them happy forever. Everyone wants to de...