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Making Marriage Work Part 3: Owning Your Feelings
Making Marriage Work Part 3: Owning Your FeelingsFor Marriage Counselling to work you have to take responsibility of your own feelings. Owning your feelings takes commitment and humility. Owning your own feelings is critical to making your marriage a good one....
Making Marriage Work – Part 2: Humility
Making Marriage Work Part 2: HumilityFor Marriage Counselling to work you have to exercise humility Humility? You may be wondering what that has to do with marriage. Without humility there can not be true love in a marriage neither can you ever effectively...
Making Marriage Work Part 1: Commitment
Making Marriage Work - Part 1: CommitmentFor Marriage Counselling to work you have to be committed When coming to marriage counselling there are some essential things that need to be understood in order for marriage counselling to work. Marriage counselling is for...
Falling Out Of Love – Part 4: Understanding Your Attachment Style
Falling Out Of Love – Part 4: Understanding Your Attachment StyleUnderstanding what your attachment style is critical to secure and fulfilling intimacyAnother reason people “fall out of love” is because of their attachment style. This is not the same as personality...
Falling Out Of Love – Part 3: Signs of Love In Trouble
Knowing what to look for you can resolve the lack of love. Love in trouble can be recognized and resolved if we know what to look for. There are a number of key things that a person needs to look for in a love relationship that culminates in marriage and that is...
Falling Out Of Love – Part 2: Understanding How Love In Marriage Works
Falling Out Of Love - Part 2: Understanding How Love In Marriage Works There are two sides of love. When we hear the phrase “love in marriage” it can stir up a desire to be married or stir up feelings of hurt and disappointment from a failed marriage or...
Falling Out Of Love – Part 1: Defining Love
Falling Out Of Love - Part 1: Defining Love Without understanding and defining what love is you will fall victim to broken relationshipsFalling in love is such a beautiful thing. The Hallmark channel and other romantic venues make this their primary focus offering...
Feeling Loved In Marriage
Feeling Loved In Marriage The keys to feeling loved in marriage. Everyone wants to feel loved that is one big reason you decided to get married. But, with so many definitions and thoughts about love it can get a bit confusing. I cannot address all the aspects of...
How To Get The Most Out Of Counselling
How To Get The Most Out Of Counselling Getting the most out of therapyTo get the most out of therapy takes a few steps of preparation. Since you are probably paying for your therapy or counselling sessions it would be prudent to come prepared to listen,...
Marriage Communication That Works
Learning how to communicate is the most important step to a successful marriage relationship Three Ways To Communicate According to Transactional Analysis there are three states or ways of communicating in marriage. Observe below: Parent to Child Child to Parent...
Learning How To Communicate And How Not to Botch It Up!
Poor communication in marriage can be a very serious problem but the good news is that the problem is fixable. Communication at best can be a tricky endeavour especially when your own feelings and beliefs get in the way. Fred and Doris, who came in for some counselling, have been married for over 10 years. They have become increasingly frustrated with each other and have grown apart. This couple once happily married no longer feels love for each other. Where they used to laugh and play together now they avoid each other and when they…
Why I Married The Person I Did?
Unless you had a pre-arranged marriage you married for “love”. Let’s be more precise, you married because your emotional needs were being met by the one you had been dating and engaged to. Here is where the problem comes into play.
Your unconscious mind is that part of you that is much like…
How To Meet Your Wife’s Number One Need: Affection
Women need to feel from their husband a gentle feeling of fondness; affection if you will. They crave gentleness, tenderness, warmth, devotion, endearment, where they feel cared for. Affection can be expressed in numerous ways. Some of these ways can include:...
Happy Wife, Happy Life: keys to a successful marriage
“I’m leaving!” “I think we should get a divorce!” “Why did you sleep with her?”More than ever in recent history has there been more divorces and separations than in our present society. Over 50% of all marriages fail, over 90% of all common-law relationships fail. ...
Staying Happily Married For Life: Part 2 – Equality
Without this crucial factor a marriage will never work. You can be committed to the relationship but without equality there will be no bliss in the relationship. Marriage relationships can be born but they have to be worked on regularly and professionally. Equality...
Staying Happily Married For Life: Part 1 – Institution of Marriage
Throughout my many years as a counsellor, therapist and as an ordained minister I have performed marriages for couples and I have counseled still many more. I have seen many of the same challenges for couples repeatedly. The institution of marriage has been around...
